Did you get a chance to check out the lineup for the Hollywood Bowl's 2012 season? If you're already planning your picnic baskets, just be sure you budget an extra couple of bucks for the evening if you're planning on picking up the shuttle bus, since the price of the ride is going up. more ›

A passenger on a bus punched a 26-year-old lady in the face twice, took her cell phone and ran away early in the morning about a week ago, police say. The robbery happened at 6:15 a.m. on January 9 near the intersection of Pico and La Cienega boulevards. more ›

Headed out tonight? Don't forget that Metro is giving free rides on all Metro bus and rail lines tonight into the wee hours of Christmas Day, 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. more ›

Metro has fired back at the Reason Foundation for their recent pro-bus video "17 Miles in Just 78 Minutes! Light Rail vs. Reality in LA." Describing Reason.TV's video as "amusing and "a little factually challenged," Metro posted the following corrections and suggestions to its blog, The Source. more ›

Today's video lunch forces viewers to weigh the pros and cons of commuting via train, bus and car. Numerous fact pop-ups crowd the screen, offering information on transportation costs and travel times. more ›

Break out the bubbly! Metro is once again offering free rides on bus and rail lines operating on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. more ›

A thief in San Clemente took an Orange County bus on a 2-mile joyride yesterday afternoon. A bus driver for the Orange County Transportation Authority left the keys in the empty bus during a break around 3pm. By the time the driver got back, the bus was nowhere to be found. more ›

Have you ever wondered if there could be a way to travel to LAX that not only sped up your journey, but was also futuristic and awesome? Well, once upon a time, an idea for just such a method of transport was bandied about: on September 27, 1961 -- exactly 50 years ago today -- transportation consultant Arthur C. Jenkins completed and filed a proposal for a Los Angeles monorail. more ›

A derailed freight train in Pacoima means that some folks will have to take buses for their morning commute, reports NBC Los Angeles. No one was hurt when the train jumped the tracks at about 10:00 p.m. last night on the Antelope Valley line that runs between Newhall and downtown Burbank. more ›

The stabbing death of Jesse Garay aboard a Red Line subway train last month was the first killing on the rail system since it opened in 1993. Recently, the victim's mother filed a claim against Metro, accusing the transit system of lacking adequate safety. Now Metro has opted to release detailed crime statistics for the first time. more ›

A man is facing terror charges after he threatened the driver of a Metro bus last night with a backpack rigged with exposed wires to look like a bomb. Eugenio Paredes, 62, was arrested last night around 6 p.m. on suspicion of making terrorist threats and possessing a hoax explosive device. more ›

The battle over the exclusive right to install thousands of bus benches in the city for the next 10 years has been won — and the winner is Florida-based Martin Outdoor Media, according to The Daily News. A city council vote on Friday afternoon brings an end to the battle by two sides heavily armed with lobbyists and a cash-strapped city hall looking for a cut of the bench's advertising revenue (they got $2.76 million over 10 years). Caught in the middle were bus riders who like to have a seat while they're waiting for their bus. more ›

A surprising survey shows that Los Angeles tops the list of areas offering public transportation to its carless residents, trumping even New York. The Brookings Institution compared the 100 largest U.S. metro areas for the number of households with no cars and no access to transit. It then ranked them based on how effectively its public transit system gets residents to work. more ›

Metro has its hands full right now, improving L.A.'s transit systems, making transit construction projects more eco-friendly plus conducting community outreach for LAX transport developments. Though the transportation authority's bandwidth must be stretched pretty thin, they still managed to upgrade the Metro bus riding experience. more ›

You're not imagining things. The bus benches are disappearing. Norman Bench Advertising, the company that has provided and managed approximately 6,000 bus benches around Los Angeles for the past decade, began removing them last week when they were not awarded a new contract, according to the L.A. Times. more ›

If you're headed in or out of Long Beach this weekend via Metro's Blue Line, heads up, there's an important service change to make note of. Blue Line service in the area will be replaced by bus service this weekend due to City of Long Beach tree trimming maintenance work, says Metro. more ›

Metro is beefing up their freebie options on the upcoming Carmageddon weekend of July 16-17 by adding select bus routes to a list of no cost transit rides for the traffic nightmare. In addition to free rides on the Metro Orange, Red and Purple Lines, Metro will make 26 bus lines free for riders. more ›

DASH public bus riders are seeing a steep fare hike on their routes today. OK, steep only as a matter of percentage as the L.A. DOT-operated busses increase fares from 35 cents to 50 cents. But who can't scrape up a few extra nickels each day? After all, as LADOT conveniently announced on this week, commuters are more satisfied than ever with its services. more ›

Members of the Bus Riders Union will be present at today's City Council meeting to speak out about their objections to the most recent round of Metro service cuts to bus lines. Those cuts will go into effect this weekend, and find numerous lines eliminated, shortened, or merged with other lines. more ›

Do you know the way to San Jose...on public transit? You can ask Joe Eskenazi, who recently undertook the crazyass endeavor of getting from San Francisco to Los Angeles using public buses, and wrote up his odyssey for the SF Weekly. more ›

The time has nearly come for Metro to implement some bus service changes and cuts approved by the transit agency back in March. Explaining that the changes will "improve the efficiency and effectiveness of bus service through better use of resources," Metro has released details about the bus lines that will be discontinued, as well as increased service on some other lines, all of which go into effect June 26th. more ›

A Metro bus driver was injured on the job last night when someone shot at her bus with a pellet or BB gun, according to ABC7. The incident happened at around 10:30 Wednesday night as the bus was at Vernon Avenue at Figueroa Street in Exposition Park. The suspect shot at the bus from the outside. The driver was struck in her finger, and treated on-scene for her injuries. Two of the bus windows were shattered, however no passengers were injured. more ›

Police have arrested a man accused of beating a man with autism on a bus for no apparent reason, reports KTLA. On April 10, Ronald Jackson, 44, is seen boarding a San Bernadino bus in footage taken by the bus' security camera. After passing by the disabled man, who was talking to himself, Jackson walks back and begins hitting the man in the head. more ›

Upset that Metro has cut or reduced service on several bus routes? Well, it's our fault: We weren't riding enough. Damned recession! Metro release data this week showing a decline in ridership of nearly 3% from 2009 to 2011, according to LA Now, and Metro says that's "because of high unemployment." more ›

By a 7 to 6 vote this morning, Metro's Board of Directors approved the proposal to cut bus services, effective June 26th, reports The Source. The cuts will eliminate some lines and shorten others, with a goal of addressing cost efficiency and low ridership. Metro believes they will save $32 million annually thanks to the cuts, which will help the transit organization balance their budget. more ›

A Downtown collision yesterday ended with the suspect fleeing the scene, only he didn't do it in his car, and he didn't do it on foot. Following a crash between a vehicle heading west on Seventh Street and one heading south on Alvarado, the driver of the westbound car took off...by hopping on the bus, according to the Daily Breeze. more ›

Ground was broken yesterday on the $69.2 million project to bring new 4.4 miles in each direction of bus and carpool lanes to the Golden State (I-5) Freeway in Burbank between the Hollywood Freeway (SR-170) and the Buena Vista Street interchange. more ›

If you're among the many Angeleno transit users who have paced anxiously curbside, waiting for that damn bus to get there and hating that there was no real way of knowing when your ride was going to pull up, you might want to get on board Nextrip. Metro began testing this real-time bus arrival system yesterday, reports The Source. All you need is a cellphone. more ›

It's only been a few months since Los Angeles' historic Union Station was sold to a Texas company, but today the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today announced they have successfully negotiated the purchase of the transit hub property to the tune of $75 million. more ›