Regional connector update
Posted by Steve Hymon on February 4, 2010 at 8:05 a.m.
The Metro employees planning the Downtown Regional Connector projects recently published their monthly update on the project, which I’ve cut and pasted below. The connector would tie together the two Gold Lines, the Blue Line and Expo Line so that passengers on all four lines can travel into the heart ...
Where federal New Starts dollars are going in FY 2011 — hint, it’s not Los Angeles County
Posted by Steve Hymon on February 3, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.
President Obama on Monday released his budget for fiscal year 2011, including his recommendations for transportation funding. The chart above, produced by Metro, shows how Obama officials want to dole out money from the federal New Starts program that helps local areas pay for big transit projects. The gist of ...
Metro planner enters Pepsi contest to fund nationwide interactive planning workshop
Posted by Fred Camino on February 3, 2010 at 2:06 p.m.
James Rojas has worked as a Transportation Planner for Metro since 1997 and has been active in the Los Angeles community for many years — using his urban planning knowledge to empower and educate disadvantaged communities. He’s known for having started the LAtino Urban Forum, a non-profit group dedicated to ...
Delays in service expected on Blue Line next three weekends
Posted by Steve Hymon on February 3, 2010 at 1:57 p.m.
Blue Line passengers be warned: due to Expo Line light rail construction, there are likely going to be delays in Blue Line service of up to 30 minutes over each of the next three weekends. In other words, it’s going to take up to 30 minutes longer for trains to ...
Yaroslavsky says he will vote to approve Expo Line environmental report
Posted by Steve Hymon on February 3, 2010 at 12:41 p.m.
At 2 p.m. on Thursday at the County Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles, the second phase of the Expo Line light rail line faces a pivotal moment: the seven-member Board of Directors of the Expo Line Construction Authority are scheduled to vote to certify the final environmental impact ...
Transportation headlines, Wednesday, Feb. 3
Posted by Fred Camino on February 3, 2010 at 9:14 a.m.
GOOD Magazine is well, good, at putting together pretty infographics. Their latest chart compares five large transit systems in the U.S. for measures such as ridership, average speed and miles traveled per trip. Although Los Angeles Metro is the third largest transit system in the nation based on ridership, it ...
Ridley-Thomas calls for audit of Metro’s cost management practices
Posted by Steve Hymon on February 2, 2010 at 3:02 p.m.
It seems that Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metro Board member Mark Ridley-Thomas wasn’t pleased to recently read in the Daily Journal that Metro has spent $32 million in legal costs to litigate a case against a contractor that involves the agency trying to recover $10 million. As a result, ...
@MetroLosAngeles Twitter Tuesday
Posted by Fred Camino on February 2, 2010 at 12:50 p.m.
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source where we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. Another week, another collection of ...
It’s good to be in So Cal, eh?
Posted by Steve Hymon on February 2, 2010 at 11:01 a.m.
Ah, January in the Midwest. I found this pic of light rail in the snow posted earlier this month on the NextStop blog run by St. Louis Metro If you’re interested in seeing how another transit agency is handling blogging, spend some time clicking around the site. And, of course, ...
Reader email
Posted by Fred Camino on February 2, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.
It’s time for another edition of reader email to The Source. If you would like to comment on a post or have something transit-related you need to get off your chest, please email us at thesource@metro.net Apparently Orange County has some pretty cool transit technology that reader Simon Oh would ...
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