It goes without saying that I think this is a very positive development; the more people that government can explain itself to, the better. With nearly 10 million people, Los Angeles County is a diverse place and about 47 percent of the population here is of Latino or Hispanic origin, [continue reading]
The Metro Library is among some 70 exhibitors on tap for the 5th Annual LA as Subject Archives Bazaar this Saturday at the Doheny Memorial Library on the USC campus in downtown Los Angeles. Never mind that it’s free and transit-accessible. Those of you with a compelling interest in all things [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. In the news: L.A. Green District Competition, L.A. Car Culture vs. Urban Culture, What’s Wrong With Airport Connectors?, Crumbling America: $2.2 Trillion, and more [continue reading]
Illuminating a stellar effort in unraveling the region’s huge traffic knot, the Corporate Blue Diamond Award for 2010 was awarded Wednesday to the California Institute of Technology, the renowned research university in Pasadena. With a robust bike-to-work and to-school program that currently attracts some 600 participants, Caltech offers a wide [continue reading]
Those of you who read our daily Transportation Headlines are well aware of Streetsblog L.A.’s excellent coverage of the mobility issues facing our region – in fact the site was number one on our list of “10 essential Los Angeles transportation blogs.” At the time of that posting there were [continue reading]
Much of L.A. has been closely following their home team as the Lakers have made their way through the Playoffs and tip off tonight in the first game of the NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics. But how many locals have been following the less glamorous, but equally as riveting, [continue reading]
We’re working on coming up with a list of essential “bikes-as-transportation” blogs to celebrate Bike Week and to round off our collection of essential blogs lists. In the past we’ve made lists for essential Los Angeles transportation blogs, essential transportation blogs that aren’t specific to L.A. and essential transit agency [continue reading]
To close out Bike Week I’d like to round up the 10 best bikes-as-transportation blogs out there. I say bikes-as-transportation because largely bikes are seen as tools for recreation and fitness (and sometimes as nothing more than children’s playthings) not as serious tools for mobility – for that the glory [continue reading]
I’ve come to trust local transit blog Plus Metro for posts that offer wildly creative solutions to everyday problems riders face on Metro – and the blog’s most recent entry is no exception. As we here at The Source comb through the over three dozen emails we received as a [continue reading]
Metro has launched another blog to satiate your hunger for transportation related reading. Primary Resources is what the Metro Library is calling their newest online venture – a blog that taps into the library’s vast collection of resources to provide images, videos and documents along with insightful commentary from Metro’s [continue reading]
