On Oct. 28, the Metro Board of Directors are scheduled to vote on an alignment for the Regional Connector and whether to launch a final environmental study — the prelude to construction of the project. In the project’s draft environmental impact statement/report, Metro staff recommended a fully underground line between [continue reading]
Go Metro Dining Map. You are clearly an adventuresome lot that likes to eat. Great restaurant suggestions for a whole bunch of cuisines keep rolling in to the Go Metro Dining Map. Like this one from Eric Jimenez for the Good Girl Dinette near the Gold Line Highland Park Station. His simple comment: [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. Rendering of Union Station stop for Silver Line (Curbed LA) The Curbed folks have a nice rendering of the station proposed for [continue reading]
Let’s start with this fun fact: When the Westside Subway Extension is built, it will take 25 minutes to travel from Los Angeles Union Station to the Westwood/UCLA station — 13 minutes on the existing Purple Line to Wilshire and Western and a little more than 12 minutes on the [continue reading]
The Regional Connector Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Report officially goes public Friday. While it may not be quite as sexy a project as the Westside Subway Extension that follows a similar Measure R project timeline, it does something the subway project does not: it connects four light rail corridors covering [continue reading]
Photo by TriMet, via Flickr There’s nothing fancy about this photo. It’s just a nice, well-composed image of one of Portland’s downtown light rail lines that runs at street level. Speaking of images, we’re not exactly being flooded with reader submissions for “art of transit” — and I know we [continue reading]
Bicycle commuters looking for more security when parking their bikes in the underground parking structure of Union Station’s East portal will be glad to hear that this week Metro installed a security camera to deter bike theft. The live feed is monitored by Metro Transit Security, and the surveillance video [continue reading]
As I gazed at this morning’s transportation headlines, a question kept bouncing around my head: Which side is the front side of Union Station? The side that faces Alameda or the side with the transit plaza where all the buses go? The story that brought this to mind was one [continue reading]
Yes, my headline is misleading. You can’t take a Metro bus or train to Arizona, but you can take one to Union Station. And from Union Station you can take an Amtrak train to Arizona. Heck, you could go all the way to Chicago if you so desired. In fact, [continue reading]
