America Fast Forward: Linking the Seattle region with light rail transit
A Central Link light rail train at Beacon Hill station. Photo by Flickr user ishell. If friends ever try that to claim you can’t have a successful transit system without rails in the ground, just nod...
View ArticleTransportation headlines, Monday, Aug. 1
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 blog. South Pasadena Council adopts new stance toward...
View ArticleThe art of transit
photo by Ilda Licon, via submission Very colorful photo of a Sound Transit light rail yard in Seattle; the Rainier Brewery sign kind of gives the location away. Ilda is an administrative analyst with...
View ArticleTransit notes from downtown Seattle
The Transit Tourist takes a look at other transit systems across the globe from the first person perspective of a visitor. What can Metro learn from how these other systems treat the uninitiated – and...
View ArticleTransportation headlines, Monday, November 24
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. Sound Transit to seek new tax, fees to...
View ArticleTransportation headlines, Monday, March 2
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! Today’s...
View ArticleHow We Roll, April 4: transit and traffic, rail crisis in nation’s capital
Art of Transit 1: The #metro expo line has really been crowded as a clown car. @metrolosangeles #whatsgoingonwithmetro pic.twitter.com/gXs8ltCQ8D — Rob Kuznia (@RobKuznia) April 4, 2016 Art of Transit...
View ArticleHow We Roll, August 9: train crowding in Seattle, Trader Joe’s parking lots
Love this @NewYorker cartoon from 1925. pic.twitter.com/mXzh49OlYD — Laura J. Nelson (@laura_nelson) August 9, 2016 For those of you who, like me, think our species’ paths will still diverge… Credit:...
View ArticleHow We Roll, Nov. 10: will Trump come through for transit and transpo?
Things to listen to whilst transiting: “How did the media — how did we — get this so wrong?,” a podcast by three journalists who work on the New York Time’s Run-Up podcast. Recorded about 3 a.m. on...
View ArticlePuget Sound, Los Angeles agencies seek fairness for local taxpayers and...
The issue for Metro is that the White House budget proposal released earlier this week does not include federal funding for section three of the Purple Line Extension subway between Century City and...
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