We’re offering free rides on our bus, rail and bike system on Saturday, February 4, to honor Transit Equity Day and the birthday of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who [continue reading]
Today is the birthday of civil rights icon Rosa Parks — a day that has also become known as Transit Equity Day. Rosa Parks, of course, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, leading the way to a U.S. Supreme Court striking down segregation [continue reading]
In case you missed it, December 1 marked the anniversary of Rosa Parks’ groundbreaking act of civil disobedience. We thought it would be a good time to share some [continue reading]
Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metro Board member Mark Ridley-Thomas and Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington today visited the Willowbrook/Rosa Parks [continue reading]
pdf here The Metro Board of Directors meet at 10 a.m. Thursday for their regular monthly meeting. The meeting, as always, is open to the public and will also be live-streamed and archived for later viewing or listening. A link will appear here once the meeting begins. Among some of [continue reading]
Update (01/16/15): Crenshaw Boulevard will be closed again tonight between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Stocker Street from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. in order to finish paving the [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. Dan Turner dies at 49; Times editorial writer (L.A. Times) Very sad news over [continue reading]
Here’s a particularly powerful photo of President Obama sitting on the bus in which civil rights activist Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat. It’s hard to imagine President Obama would be where he is today without the courage and determination of Parks and the thousands of men [continue reading]
