Metro and LASD introduce new safety and security technologies
A media event is being held this afternoon at the Blue Line’s Willow Station. Here’s the news release from Metro and a video with excerpts of the event: Eye in [continue reading]
Metro acquires three technologies to help improve security on buses, trains and at stations
Here is the news release from Metro: METRO RAMPING UP SECURITY THROUGH THE THREE Es: ENGINEERING, EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT SkyWatch towers will be “eyes in the sky” to step up enforcement To further enhance safety and security on the transit system, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today [continue reading]
Metro creates Office of Extraordinary Innovation
This was briefly mentioned in our earlier headlines post. Here’s the news release with more info: Metro Creates Innovative Office to Steer Los Angeles County Into a Mobile Future Metro is creating an Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI) to champion new ideas for improving mobility throughout Los Angeles County, while helping [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Tuesday, June 16
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Transportation headlines, Wednesday, February 18
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Transportation headlines, Thursday, February 5
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! Today’s Zocalo Public Square Metro rider profile: a student and skateboarder traveling from 23rd Street to Melrose Avenue. Wilshire Boulevard will truly be a multi-modal [continue reading]
Public testing begins at Union Station on new screen prompts for Metro ticket machines
Three Metro TAP vending machines at Union Station will show new screen prompts beginning today as part of a two-week test to see how the riding public likes the improvements. As the images [continue reading]
Metro & the Digital Future event Nov. 7 to focus on improving rider experience
One topic that is frequently raised at Metro Board meetings: technology, the rider experience and which tech tools Metro should be pursuing. And, as regular readers of The Source know, this is a topic discussed and debated (and debated some more!) on our comment board. In that spirit, Metro is convening [continue reading]
Metro becomes first transit agency in U.S. to apply flywheel technology for rail energy savings
Metro officials met with representatives from the Federal Transit Administration and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory last week to review promising results of the agency’s first-of-a-kind use of flywheel technology [continue reading]
End of an era: Metro to retire its last high-floor buses on August 30
Adios bus stairs, here comes the “Low Rider.” Bus riders in Los Angeles County will no longer have to climb stairs to board a Metro Bus on any of Metro’s 170 bus lines beginning August 30. That’s the date when Metro will be officially retiring its very last high-floor transit buses [continue reading]