Go Metro to LA Pride!
This year’s edition of the enormously popular LA Pride Festival in West Hollywood begins Friday and runs through Sunday. By enormous we mean attended by hundreds of thousands of people, [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Tuesday, January 6
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! The Los Angeles Rams loved public transit (CityLab) Fun pics of Rams players in the 1970s promoting taking RTD buses to games at the L.A. Coliseum. [continue reading]
For those going Metro to the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval
As per usual, the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval will draw a huge and freaky crowd Friday night (we mean that as a compliment!). That means the street closures shown above will be in effect and a few Metro Bus Lines — the 2, 4, 10, 30, 105, 704 and 705 — will [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Monday, August 25
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Gold Line Eastside project environmental document released (San Gabriel Valley Tribune) Coverage of the release on Friday of the Eastside Gold Line Phase 2 environmental [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Thursday, August 7
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! $11 billion later, high-speed rail is inching along (New York Times) The top of the story: WASHINGTON — High-speed rail was supposed to be President [continue reading]
New Metro Rapid bus stops in West Hollywood
As part of the service changes taking effect on Sunday, December 15, two new stops on the 704 Rapid Line on Santa Monica Boulevard. Here is the news release: Bus riders in West Hollywood get a holiday present as the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) adds Metro Rapid [continue reading]
One mile of new traffic lane added to the 405 project
Metro, Caltrans and Kiewit have opened another one-mile section of new freeway lane on the I-405 between Santa Monica Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard, making good on a promise to continue opening parts of the freeway improvements project as soon as they’re ready for public use. Just before the Memorial Day [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Friday, Jan. 25
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. Uh oh, Metro now naming stations to honor people (LAObserved) Kevin Roderick has some [continue reading]
Metro schedules public hearing on Century City station location and Beverly Hills subway route
Below is the hearing notice for the public hearing before the Metro Board of Directors requested by the Beverly Hills City Council on the Westside Subway Extension’s route in Beverly Hills and Century City. The hearing will be 1:30 p.m., Thursday, May 17, at Metro headquarters adjacent to Union Station [continue reading]