Gold Line Arcadia Station transit connections (let’s go to the mall!)

By now you’re probably fairly familiar with my desire to EAT ALL THE FOOD, especially food that I can Metro to. So when I heard that Uncle Tetsu‘s first mainland U.S. store was open in ...

Actions taken by the Metro Board on Thursday

View this document on Scribd View this document on Scribd Wow. Another Board meeting this year that was shorter than a Hobbit movie! The full agenda and recap of actions are above. Among the more ...

How We Roll, Sept. 22: improving Rams service, Expo TOD and sighs over distracted driving

Art of Transit:  Good ol’ Pigeon Point light house south of the Bay Area. They gotta lose that chainlink fence. And I gotta figure out how to lose the wide angle distortion. Photo by Steve ...

Video: Young father with troubled past finds new life through construction career

We continue our construction careers program video series today with the story of Eric Barnes, a laborer for Skanska-Traylor-Shea, the contractor building Metro’s Purple Line Extension ...

New contract would expand security guard presence on Metro system

View this document on Scribd An $82-million million contract to double the number of private security guards to patrol the Metro system and facilities was approved by the Metro Board of Directors on ...

Community meeting Thursday evening on 1st/Central Station for Regional Connector

Here’s the meeting announcement. The 1st/Central Station will serve Little Tokyo and the Arts District.

This Weekend: Bus shuttles replace Blue/Expo Line in DTLA due to upgrade work

The Blue Line on Washington Boulevard. Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro. Bus shuttles will replace the Blue Line between Washington and 7th St/Metro Center, and the Expo Line between LATTC/Ortho and 7th ...

HWR, Sept. 21: a defense of Expo and who else is excited about self-driving big rigs?

I encourage everyone to poke around the great Transport Databook site by Yonah Freemark. There are all sorts of great charts that are useful, such as the one below — a nice reminder that ...

Video: Metro’s construction careers program helps single mom find job

Over the next few days we’ll be posting a series of videos featuring construction workers and small business owners whose lives have been positively impacted by working on Metro projects ...

Test shuttle between Arcadia Station and popular Chantry Flat begins this weekend

  Credit: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. This is some very welcome news from our friends at the Angeles National Forest, which covers much of the San Gabriel Mountains. Chantry Flat is an ...