From the Department of Show Bike Riders Some Respect: After another grueling day of blogging for the government, I went home to the 91106 last week and decided to go for a bike ride to stretch the legs and enjoy some semi-clean air. I’m pedaling along a bike lane on [continue reading]
Things to read whilst transiting: the ultimate guide to winning your white elephant gift exchange on the Five Thirty Eight blog. I ended up with a Rudolph mug after someone [continue reading]
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 profile [continue reading]
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! Rest in Peace, Pete Seeger…. Rail alone can’t reinvent L.A. (L.A. Times) Ethan N. Elkind is pleased to see that three rail transit projects are [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. Our response to So Cal Connected’s segment on pedestrian safety (L.A. Walks) The pedestrian [continue reading]
This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. Select Bus Service gets a ‘B’ from East Side Manhattan riders New York’s relatively new BRT transit service has proven quite popular with [continue reading]
This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. Detroit abandons light rail dreams, plans BRT routes In past editions of this series we’ve looked at the woes of public transit in [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 blog. Drivers, want more space on the roads? Push for bike lanes (The Globe and Mail) It seems counter intuitive: give up a precious road [continue reading]
photo by Kirill Surov, via his Flickr photostream A nice warm weather photo of a ferry on Lake Ontario in Toronto. I think this may be our first photo of a ferry — we tend to run a lot of photos of trains. I’ll have to remedy that, as there [continue reading]
A regular contributor at my previous blog, MetroRiderLA, has a saying that I think holds a lot of truth: “The worst transit agency in the world is the one you ride every day.” No mater where I am and how great I think a particular system or service may seem, [continue reading]
