Whitney Lynn (aka @catahstrophic) is a Rail LA volunteer who decided the best way to get to the Rail LA booth at Sunday’s CicLAvia was to hop on the Red Line – for the first time ever. Check out this video she tweeted us to see what she thought of [continue reading]
Comedian Mark Malkoff unintentionally makes a case for bus rapid transit (BRT) in this hilarious video of him on a children’s Big Wheel tricycle racing a New York City transit bus. The mile long race through the heart of Times Square proves that a grown man on a child’s toy [continue reading]
Here’s some more Expo Line eye candy: watch as Metro staff roll out the first light rail vehicle on to tracks for testing. The train is pulled by a “high-rail” vehicle – basically a big truck fitted with steel wheels – as there is currently no power flowing through the [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy discussed the latest happenings at Metro and fielded questions from the public at last week’s Transit Coalition meeting. TonyW79SFV has uploaded a video of the event to YouTube, it’s unedited and an hour long but contains some good nuggets of info throughout. Here are links to [continue reading]
Los Angeles Streetcar Inc. (LASI), the non-profit public/private partnership working to bring a 4-mile streetcar line to downtown L.A., released the above video last Thursday at a fundraising event that raised over $200,000. The money raised on Thursday is just a small drop in the bucket for the proposed project [continue reading]
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) recently launched an online video wall featuring testimonials from transit riders across the nation. The goal is to give transit riders a voice and to encourage Congress to pass a long-term transportation bill that increases funding for public transportation. Think of it as sort [continue reading]
We’re spotlighting the finalists of the Transit Flicks Video Contest, hopefully encouraging you to view all the videos and to vote for your favorite. In the spirit of neutrality I’ll be presenting the videos in reverse alphabetical order based on the last names of the filmmakers (they’re presented in alphabetical [continue reading]
We’re spotlighting the finalists of the Transit Flicks Video Contest, hopefully encouraging you to view all the videos and to vote for your favorite. In the spirit of neutrality I’ll be presenting the videos in reverse alphabetical order based on the last names of the filmmakers (they’re presented in alphabetical [continue reading]
We’re spotlighting the finalists of the Transit Flicks Video Contest, hopefully encouraging you to view all the videos and to vote for your favorite. In the spirit of neutrality I’ll be presenting the videos in reverse alphabetical order based on the last names of the filmmakers (they’re presented in alphabetical [continue reading]
We’re spotlighting the finalists of the Transit Flicks Video Contest, hopefully encouraging you to view all the videos and to vote for your favorite. In the spirit of neutrality I’ll be presenting the videos in reverse alphabetical order based on the last names of the filmmakers (they’re presented in alphabetical [continue reading]
