in Downtown, where many of the city's light rail and subway lines have terminal points, not all the lines intersect. To make getting from one line to another easier, Metro has just approved plans for a connecting line. Thursday, The Metro Board of Directors certified the Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report for the Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project. more ›

The lending library and bookstore Libros Schmibros is opening today at its new location on top of the Gold Line station at Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights. Its new spot near the Gold Line will attract more foot traffic from people looking to pick up something to read on their ride. And the plaza outside will be a good place for crowds to overflow—and perhaps to screen an upcoming Mexican film series. more ›

Someone was stabbed at the Metro Red Line station today in downtown this afternoon. This is the fourth stabbing on Metro in the last few months. more ›

Heads up for commuters who use the 210 Freeway in the Arcadia area, there are going to be some significant closures tonight to accommodate construction on the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension. more ›

If you are headed out to celebrate the arrival of 2012 tonight, and your starting and end points offer convenient access to the Red, Blue, Purple, Gold, Green, or Orange Metro lines, you pretty much have no excuse to not take public transit tonight. 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 ›

As a result of two recent stabbings on the Metro Rail, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department has increased the number of deputies on trains. Department members say both the Gold Line and Red Line attacks are unusual. more ›

This is starting to become a regular thing: A fight Friday night on a Metro train has resulted in a stabbing and an arrest, says the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The incident took place at around 6:30 p.m. aboard a Metro Gold Line train headed northbound to the Memorial Park Station in Pasadena. more ›

Of Metro's Red Line subway and Gold Line light rail, which puts commuters at more of a risk of exposure to potentially hazardous air pollutants? A study conducted by the University of Southern California finds that Red Line riders are exposed to up to twice as much unhealthy air as those on the Gold Line. more ›

With a swinging 94.7 The Wave-style hold music score that eventually gives way to a more pop-rock jam, and lots of footage of happy riders, the Gold Line Construction Authority recently released the first two videos in a series of planned updates about the rail line's Foothill Extension. 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 ›

Metro has announced service suspensions and delays on the Gold Line for Pasadena to East Los Angeles due to the weather. They've suspended service between Mariachi & Maravilla Stations because of a power outage, and have requested a bus bridge; "Alt Rte: Use Line30 on 1st or Montebello 40 on 3rd/4th," they Tweeted. "Gold Line btwn Mariachi Plz & Pasadena SMV should see only minor delays. Major disruption is only affecting travel thru Soto & Indiana Stns," added @MetroLosAngeles minutes later. more ›

One of the two Metro Gold Line tracks connecting Los Angeles and Pasadena has been knocked out by a power surge cutting down service to the just the slow-boat running every 30 minutes in both directions. more ›

The mixed-use transit village planned for the Gold Line station in Monrovia received some green to help with their green, thanks to a "a $995,000 Urban Greening Grant from the the state's California's Strategic Growth Council," reports the Pasadena Star-News. The grant is sourced from Prop 84 funds, and will help pay for a portion of the design and construction of the ambitious development and renovation project. more ›

As the Gold Line's expansion moves eastward still, one local landmark dormant for almost 40 years, could get a new lease on life. Monrovia's old train station has been "sequestered behind a chain-link fence in a nondescript parking lot at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Duarte Road," explains Monrovia Patch, in a story about the station's history. more ›

An octogenarian woman died last night after being deliberately pushed off a Gold Line platform an onto the tracks earlier in the day, reports KTLA. Betty Sugiyama, 84, was pushed off the Little Tokyo Metro station platform Sunday morning. Shortly after Sugiyama fell, another woman, Jackkqueline Pogue, 44, was taken into custody. Pogue will be charged with murder, says the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, though right now a motive for the crime is not clear. more ›

After approving the Westside Subway Extension, the Metro Board of Directors this afternoon also voted in favor of another major public transit project: a fully underground regional connector in downtown Los Angeles. The 1.9 mile light rail line would fill a gap missing in Metro's transit network. more ›

A collision between two trucks on the eastbound 210 Freeway has left one of them laying on its side and over the divider, blocking Metro light trail tracks, according to live reports on KTLA and an e-mail from Metro authorities. more ›

A suicide attempt landed a 45-year-old man on the Gold Line tracks after he struck the back of the train, reports the Pasadena Star-News. The man leaped from an overpass at Arroyo Parkway and Holly Street near the Gold Line's Pasadena Memorial Park station at around 6:26 this morning. more ›

Just like the Gold Line's expansion beyond Pasadena in the foothill neighborhoods, it's also likely to get an extension east of the Eastside. At the moment there are two alternatives being discussed: one along the 60 Freeway from East Los Angeles to South El Monte and another that takes the 60 Freeway to Garfield to Washington, ending in Whittier. more ›

As expected, Metro today released the draft environmental reports for the Regional Connector today and for downtown residents and commuters it carries some good news: staff recommend taking the route fully underground instead of at street level. more ›

The 11-mile extension from Pasadena to Azusa just broke ground, but the Gold Line Foothill Extension goes beyond that. Phase 2B takes the light rail even further, about 13 more miles east to Montclair (some want it to go out to the Ontario airport) and Tuesday big news about funding was announced. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, said $650,000 has been included in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill, according to the San Gabriel Tribune. The money will go towards environmental clearance. Cities served in Phase 2B will be Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne, Pomona, Claremont and Montclair more ›

Where there's a Will, there's a way. 10 years in the making, on Saturday the first phase of the Gold Line Foothill Extension -- Pasadena to Azusa -- will break ground (.pdf). The 11-mile light rail extension will go through five cities with six stations. Those cities are Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale, and Azusa (where two stations will be built). more ›

Funding for the first phase of the Gold Line Foothill Extension was approved this morning by the Metro Board of Directors, setting in motion work that will allow for a June groundbreaking. Today's vote moved $690 million, raised from the voter-approved Measure R sales tax, to the coffers of the Gold Line Construction Authority, which will build 11.3 miles of light rail track, extending the line from Pasadena to Azusa, generally along the 210 freeway. more ›

A Metro committee Thursday is poised to vote on a move that would fully fund the first of two phases extending the Gold Line along the 210 Freeway. If the $690 million transfer is approved, Phase IIA would extend the light rail line 11.3 miles from Pasadena to Azusa, mostly along the 210 freeway, by 2014. There would be six stops in the cities of Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale, and Azusa. The vote is to transfer Measure R dollars from Metro to the Goldline Construction Authority so it can break ground in June. “This historic vote will secure victory for the San Gabriel Valley and move us toward our goal of a truly regional transit system,” said County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, who has been pushing for this project. The move then must be approved by the full board next week. Correction: The committee vote was last week and the full board vote is Thursday. more ›

New York City wants to teach Los Angeles a thing or two about traffic. Specifically, NYC's transportation commissioner and California native Janette Sadik-Khan wants to inspire Los Angeles to make the same bike-friendly changes her city has in order to make traffic safer and less congested for everyone. more ›

The Gold Line Eastside Extension just opened last November, but Metro is already working on extending the line even further from its East L.A. terminus (and not to be confused with the Gold Line's Foothill Extension, which will break ground this summer continuing it east from Pasadena). Someday, L.A. County residents could be hitting the rails to South El Monte or down to Whittier. more ›

After complaints and concerns about plans to run place above ground in downtown, the option to put the regional connector underground was approved for study by a Metro committee yesterday, reports blogdowntown. The connector is a critical missing link for public transit commuters and would combine the Blue and Gold lines and the Expo and Gold Line Extension lines. To stay within budget, however, the underground option may mean one less station. The study must next be approved by the full Metro board. more ›

It looks like June is when we'll see the groundbreaking for the MTA Gold Line's Foothill Extension, which will take the tracks from its current terminus in Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border, reports the Pasadena Star-News. more ›