Win a 7-day TAP card as part of Eat Shop Play’s ‘Fortune Fridays’ contest
Eat Shop Play Local As L.A. Metro builds $8 billion of new rail lines in Los Angeles County, we created Eat Shop Play as a unique program to lessen the [continue reading]
New video: Regional Connector’s tunneling machine arrives at 1st/Central station
The Regional Connector’s tunnel boring machine (Angeli, as she’s known around these parts) has arrived at the 1st St/Central Avenue Station site in Little Tokyo. After lowering the machine one [continue reading]
Business Interruption Fund spotlight: Mitsuru Café
Mitsuru Café is located within Japanese Village Plaza and sells traditional Japanese finger foods such as imagawayaki (red bean cakes), takoyaki (octopus balls), and mitarashi dango (mochi rice cake). The [continue reading]
2016: two rail openings, bike share, a ballot measure and a very busy year for Metro
This was my seventh year at the agency and, by far, 2016 was the busiest. I usually like to put the end-of-the-year highlights in chronological order but I think four [continue reading]
How We Roll, Dec. 22: big rigs vs 210, Musk vs traffic, partially automated cars vs people
Art of Transit 1: Related: More recent Crenshaw/LAX Line construction pics. Art of Transit 2: Art of Transit 3: Here are photos of the Uber driverless cars leaving SF en masse. https://t.co/zJFGRQdvG6 pic.twitter.com/5fn5LDrBZ7 — Curbed SF (@CurbedSF) December 22, 2016 Big rig crashes on 210; Gold Line stopped in Pasadena [continue reading]
How We Roll, Dec. 12: safety & security, more TODs for DTLA, a transit musical
Metro Red Line bomb threat highlights vulnerabilities of rail system to attack (SGV Tribune) How vulnerable are transit systems in the U.S. to a terrorist attack? And is a multi-agency police force — as has been proposed by Metro staff — the best way to safeguard our local system? Those [continue reading]
Video: Regional Connector tunneling machine lowered part by part into the launch pit
Assembly of the Regional Connector’s tunnel boring machine (TBM), Angeli, has commenced. The machine’s heaviest components were lowered by a heavy-duty crane known as a gantry system. Each segment of [continue reading]
Weekend street closures along Spring Street begin for Regional Connector work
Work on the Metro Regional Connector is marching on. Beginning tomorrow, Saturday, December 2, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., traffic lanes at the 2nd St. and Spring St. intersection in [continue reading]
How We Roll, Nov. 18: will there ever be another New Deal?
ICYMI: Here’s our post about the new policing contract scheduled to be considered by the Metro Board on Dec. 1. Surprised there aren’t more comments on this. ICYMI 2: And here’s [continue reading]
Artists selected for Regional Connector project
A panel of nationally recognized curators, local arts professionals and community members from the Regional Connector project area in downtown Los Angeles has selected seven artists to create site-specific, integrated artworks for [continue reading]