New poster collection now available at the Metro Shop
Decorate your home or office with a little bit of transit history! New posters are now available at the Metro Shop. Check out the collection below and click here to [continue reading]
Metro Shop: breeze through the rest of summer with our new Summer Collection
Beach gear, swim wear, and more vintage RTD items are now available at the Metro Shop! Use promo code Beachbus upon checkout to receive a 15% discount on Summer Collection [continue reading]
Metro Shop: Go vintage with RTD gear
See and order all the RTD gear in the online Metro Shop. The RTD was one of the predecessor agencies to Metro and has found it’s way into L.A. lore [continue reading]
Metro Chief Communications Officer Pauletta Tonilas announces departure for position at Denver RTD
Metro Chief Communications Officer (CCO) Pauletta Tonilas has announced that she has accepted the position of Assistant General Manager, Communications, at the Regional Transportation District (RTD) in Denver. Metro CEO Phil Washington will name an interim CCO and said that a national search for Pauletta’s replacement will soon commence. Pauletta [continue reading]
Double deckers, 210 barriers, Lyft/Uber: HWR, July 20
Crenshaw/LAX Line construction: here are some fresh pics. Art of Transit: I was remiss in not posting this last month. If you don’t follow us on Instagram, please do so! [continue reading]
How We Roll, driving takes off and transit ridership declines
Reminder: The 626 Golden Streets event is on tab for this Sunday and it sounds great. How often can you ride your bike sans traffic for 17 miles from South [continue reading]
How We Roll, Jan. 18: if climate change isn’t your thing, try riding transit
Coming soon: we’ll have a post up this afternoon about service Saturday to the march in DTLA. We’re getting a lot of questions. Art of Transit 1: View this post [continue reading]
How We Roll, Oct. 24: P3s, self-driving promises and the Cubs are no untouchables
Things to read whilst transiting: I love this. The Chicago Cubs have had to yank an offer that would have allowed Chicago aldermen — their equivalent to a City Council — to purchase World Series tickets at face value. Why anyone thought that passed the ethical smell test is beyond [continue reading]
Podcast: True Tales from Metro Bus Operators
https://soundcloud.com/metrolosangeles/episode-1-true-tales-from-bus-drivers Here’s the podcast description from Metro: Did you know that bus operators occasionally get lost? Also, that they are all freaked out beyond belief on their first day? And [continue reading]
How We Roll, April 19: the new train to the plane in Denver
Reminder: there’s a community meeting at 6 p.m. tonight in Palmdale about Metro’s potential ballot measure. More info here. Things to read whilst transiting: •If you need proof that apes will one day surely rule, look no further than Buzzfeed, which actually has a post about what’s trending on Amazon. If [continue reading]