Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, meaning it’s now officially time to contemplate two holiday traditions: grandma’s green bean casserole and shopping (hopefully in that order!) Metro serves many of the area’s largest shopping malls or districts — helping shoppers avoid overflowing parking lots or finding a parking meter on congested [continue reading]
A few readers have asked recently about the service changes to Metro’s bus schedules that will take effect on June 23. They were just posted on metro.net earlier this week. Here they are: Starting June 23, Metro is making minor changes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your bus [continue reading]
On Sunday, June 26 Metro’s bi-annual service changes go into effect. As a result, a number of bus lines will be affected including: 2/302, 4, 20, 26, 94/794, 96/155, 176/287, 180, 205, 207, 210, 217, 230/634, 247, 442, 445, 450x, 485, 487, 577, 612, 751, 757, 760, 902, Silver Line, [continue reading]
Metro provides digital timetables for each of its 191 bus routes and 5 rail lines in the PDF format. While PDF is a universally accepted format, and an accessible one at that, I find PDF documents to be a bit disruptive when browsing for vital information – like timetables – [continue reading]
This Sunday, June 27, is Metro’s bi-annual service “shake-up” where bus routes are adjusted, timetables are tweaked and some lines disappear while others are born – all in the name of trying to enhance service and efficiency. And, quite frankly, to make Metro’s service more financially efficient, too. The big [continue reading]
After two days of pomp, the new Eastside Gold Line began regular weekday service earlier this morning. There was a sprinkling of riders on the train at 4:10 a.m. at Mariachi Plaza, with more passengers jumping on the train as the morning proceeded. Several riders said they had switched from [continue reading]
