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Text by India Mandelkern. This post originally appeared on Metro’s The Source on January 17, 2024. Where were you during the Northridge Earthquake? If you lived here in the 90s, the moment is probably seared into your brain, a gut-stopping collective…
George Takei is known to most people as Mr. Sulu, helmsman of the fictional starship USS Enterprise on the television series Star Trek. The native Angeleno also served on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District…
Metro’s Regional Connector opens on June 16, 2023. This project makes it easier to ride across Los Angeles County as passengers can now travel between Azusa and Long Beach, and between East Los Angeles and Santa Monica, without transferring lines.…
Page content by Danny Seplow Pollution has been a problem that has challenged Los Angeles for over a century. Geographic features make smog prone to stay above the city and urban sprawl has created the demand for long-distance transit, most…
The vision and concept for a universal fare system for Los Angeles County began at the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission in 1990. The agency encouraged countywide transit policies among all the transit service providers: for example, Southern California Rapid…
Text by India Mandelkern. The B (Red) Line has always been the busiest line in our transit network. On an average weekday, the B Line has about 75,000 boardings. Together with the D (Purple) Line, which shares some of the…
There has been plenty of research published about the adoption and rapid growth of automobile use in Los Angeles in the early 1920s. Some notable resources include Scott L. Bottles’ Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern…
Metro and its predecessor transit agencies have a long and complex history of transit policing. Our predecessor agencies, Southern California Rapid Transit District (SCRTD : 1964-1993), Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Agency (LAMTA : 1958-1964), Metropolitan Coach Lines (MCL : 1953-1958),…
Page content by Danny Seplow Long Range Transportation Plans (LRTP) are long term plans that were originally created by the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission beginning in 1987, and now by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA or…
A post in Streetsblog LA serves as a reminder that identifying and differentiating the roles of government agencies with similar-sounding names is challenging. Throw in a bunch of acronyms, and it becomes outright baffling. The California Department of Transportation, the…
