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Metro to run regular service schedule on President’s Day holiday this Monday
All Metro buses and Metro Rail trains, including the Red Line, Purple Line, Blue Line, Green Line and Gold Line, will operate on a regular schedule on Presidents’ Day, Monday, Feb. 15. As always, you...
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Metrolink offers 'Two for One' special on MLK Day; Metro keeps to regular...
Metrolink will keep normal schedules for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, but with a special offer to bring a friend along for free. Metrolink ticket-holders are invited to bring one guest to...
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Los Angeles Times reviews L.A.'s other car — a Metro Bus
Online at latimes.com: A crash-less course in driving MTA’s new natural gas bus A million or so boardings on an average weekday translates to a lot of people whose other car is a Metro bus. Maybe...
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Metro celebrates 100th anniversary of Arthur Winston Division 5
Metro Board Directors and Metro executives gathered this week at Arthur Winston Division 5 to celebrate the bus maintenance facility’s 100th birthday. Division 5 opened on December 30, 1912 as a...
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Newly ordered Metro buses will come equipped with Q’POD
A rendering of how new wheelchair areas will be marked. Metro currently boards more than 80,000 wheelchair passengers a month, and the new CNG New Flyer buses Metro has ordered will make getting around...
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Go Metro to great, green parks in L.A.
View from Palisades Park, Santa Monica. Photo: Kelly Cookson via Flickr Creative Commons One of the best things about living in sunny SoCal is that we can enjoy the region’s many parks practically 365...
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Metro debuts next generation bus today
Metro debuted the first of 550 New Flyer buses this morning. The New Flyer buses will be replacing the remaining high floor buses, thus making Metro a 100 percent low-floor fleet. Additionally, the...
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Metro debuts new security video monitors on buses
Metro CEO Art Leahy showing the new security video screen on board a Metro bus. Photo: Paul Gonzales/Metro As part of increased efforts to augment security and safety for Metro riders, video monitors...
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View of every Metro bus stop on a map
Ever wondered how extensive and large Metro’s bus system is? Here’s a cool interactive we built that shows you all of Metro’s bus stops plotted on a map. It’s amazing to see just how massive the bus...
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Free speech for your classroom or group
Is your organization interested in the future of our region? Are your students searching for direction in their future careers? Do you want to know what future transit projects are coming to a highway...
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Transportation headlines, Tuesday, January 20
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. Pick your social media poison! Zocalo...
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Go Metro to SoCal “Museums Free-For-All” Saturday, Jan. 31
Mark your calendars! Saturday, January 31 is the 10th annual SoCal Museums Free-For-All. More than 20 SoCal museums will come together to represent L.A.’s natural history, art and science with free...
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Metro Bus and Rail detours for The Oscars this Sunday
It’s that time of year again. This Sunday, February 22, the 87th annual Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, which means a significant section of Hollywood Boulevard will be...
View ArticleUpcoming hearings for proposed June Metro Bus service changes
View this document on Scribd View this document on Scribd As many of you know, Metro often makes transit service changes twice a year — most often involving bus routes and schedules, with changes...
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Metro staff recommends all-door boarding test for Silver Line
Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro. Metro tested all-door boarding on some key stops on the 720 Rapid Bus last summer on Wilshire Boulevard. The above study provides the official results: the boarding of buses...
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Photo essay: From Here to There
Veronica An is a Los Angeles-based journalist and photographer. She recently spent a day shadowing Metro bus operator Vanessa Maldonado and wrote the following. More photos can be found on her...
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Metro releases ‘Quality of Life’ report
View this document on Scribd Seeking to document the impact of investment in local transportation, Metro released its first “Quality of Life” report on Tuesday. The report compares 2008 — the year...
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How We Roll, August 5: safety and security, LACMA expansion, first-last mile
Things on Twitter: @metrolosangeles is making progress on the future Little Tokyo metro station. pic.twitter.com/sBKUzq7kdM — Robert Petersen (@lahiddenhistory) August 5, 2016 On @metrolosangeles to...
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How We Roll, Feb. 13: ridership
Reminder: for those of you planning on going to the march Saturday, avoid long lines at the TAP vending machines by getting your TAP card ahead of time. More here. Dept. of Infrastructure Facts: I...
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Public hearings to be held in July for proposed bus service changes
Click above to see larger. Click above to see larger. Metro will hold public hearings in July to receive community input on proposed modifications to Metro’s bus service. Approved changes could become...
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