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. Today’s profile of a Metro rider by Zocalo Public Square: It’s [continue reading]
Officials today announced the opening at 7 a.m. Wednesday of five miles of peak hour bus lanes on Wilshire Boulevard. The bus lanes will be used by Metro and other [continue reading]
Although the project was approved by Metro and the Los Angeles City Council in spring of 2011, ground was broken Wednesday on the remainder of the Wilshire Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lanes. The first 1.8 miles of bus only lanes opened last June between South Park View and Western Avenue; [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 Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Have a transportation-related article [continue reading]
If you ride a bus that travels down Wilshire Boulevard during peak hours, you should see a slight improvement in travel time starting tomorrow morning. A segment of the Wilshire Boulevard BRT bus lanes opens at 7 a.m. Wednesday. Here’s the press release from Metro: Bus riders on one of [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. Culver City and Farmdale stations to open Wednesday (Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas website) Phase one [continue reading]
Some good news out of Washington today: Metro received word that $9.7 million in federal funding for the Wilshire bus lane project has been secured. The project, approved by the Metro Board of Directors this past spring, will add 7.7 miles of peak hour bus lanes to portions of Wilshire, [continue reading]
As expected, the Metro Board of Directors on Thursday approved free fares on the Red and Purple Line subway and the Orange Line busway for July 16 and 17, the weekend that the 405 freeway will be closed over the Sepulveda Pass for the partial demolition of the Mulholland Bridge. [continue reading]
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a 7.7-mile option for rush hour bus lanes for Wilshire Boulevard, clearing a key hurdle needed for the project to begin its design phase and then construction. But the Council provided a wrinkle: adding language asking the Metro Board of Directors to [continue reading]
The big day is almost here: The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday for one of three options for the Wilshire Boulevard peak hour bus lane project. The three choices: 8.7 miles of lanes including the Condo Canyon stretch in Westwood, 7.7 miles of lanes excluding Condo [continue reading]
