The first episode of American Makeover, a six episode series of short videos about sprawl in America, launched on YouTube today and its subject is Atlanta – a massive city that may have taken L.A.’s crown as car culture king. The metropolitan area of Sprawlanta, as the video mockingly calls [continue reading]
This great video, fresh from the office of L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, shows two Metro bus operators being honored by Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Don Knabe for their role in helping rescue a young girl from a kidnapper on February 22nd of this year. In the video, Metro bus [continue reading]
As we mentioned last week, on May 2nd Metro and the Watts Village Theater Company are mashing up transit and theater in a first-of-its-kind event in Los Angeles called Meet Me @ Metro. Tickets to the event are free, but going fast. The 11:00 a.m. time slot is already sold [continue reading]
Metro Motion is Metro’s quarterly television show that airs on cable channels around L.A. But some of us Millennials view cable television the same way we view CD players – outdated technology that’s best left alone. Luckily Metro realizes this and has put Metro Motion on one of my favorite [continue reading]
Hat tip to one of my favorite blogs, The Bus Bench, for posting a link to this video on their Facebook page. The video from Planet Green has car-free author and correspondent Chris Balish getting around Los Angeles on his bike and Metro buses. Chris, who wrote a book in [continue reading]
East L.A. native and media producer Armando Velez posted this video of the Gold Line Eastside Extension opening day celebration on Metro’s Facebook page. The video caught our attention because its beautifully composed black and white imagery cut to “We Are The People” by Empire of the Sun hinted that [continue reading]
The Source has yet to ride the new Silver Line (don’t worry, we will soon) but Metro Community Relations was there on opening day and took this video. Check out the sleek buses (NABI 45C-LFW, for you transit geeks), thoughts from passengers, and footage of the bus blasting past traffic [continue reading]
By now I think we’re all aware of the culinary delights that await Metro riders traveling into East L.A. on the the new Gold Line extension. But last week Metro Media Relations released a press release that caught my eye (and my appetite) with a list of tamale vendors along [continue reading]
I stumbled upon the video posted on the Metro Library YouTube channel thanks to a post from UCLA’s Be A Green Commuter blog. It’s a promo video Metro produced to aid in the recruitment of bus operators, so obviously it’s a bit one-sided. But I found it contained some pretty [continue reading]
Metro Communications staff put together this nicely shot but strangely silent video compilation of festivities from todays Gold Line Eastside Extension opening. A throw back to the silent movie era or a chance to play your own music while you watch? I’ll let you decide.
