On your mark, get set, go out into the streets of Los Angeles this Sunday knowing exactly what 2012 Honda LA Marathon detours you'll face. The return of the 26-mile "Stadium to the Sea" course routes runners from Downtown L.A. to Santa Monica, beginning at Dodgers Stadium.
Street Closures & Metro Bus Detours For Sunday's Honda LA Marathon
How Walkable Is Your Metro Rail Station?
More Than Red Cars, a blog examining "the obscure, offbeat and half-forgotten transportation history of Southern California," recently ranked L.A's Metro Rail stations by their Walk Score, a number assigned to a location illustrating its proximity to amenities like grocery stores, coffee shops and eateries.
All Night Subway/Light Rail Service New Year's Eve
Earlier this month, Metro announced the usual free rides on Christmas and New Year's Eve special that they do every year. Tonight, we received a short and brief, but extremely exciting e-mail:
Wilshire Subway Watch: Screw You Cars! You Can't Use Wilshire Anymore!*
Citing high costs, length of time to build and other basic realities of building the "subway to the sea," Michael Balter calls for Wilshire Blvd. to be car free today in the LA Times opinion section: First, ban all automobiles from the entire 15-mile length of the boulevard. Second, beginning at its Western Avenue station, bring the Metro Rail to street level and run it to and from the sea on two sets of...
Metro Changes Go Into Effect Today
Here we are on the day Metro makes another set of changes that they refer to as "Service Enhancements." And yes, these are enhancements, but that does not mean service cuts, excuse us, "discontinuations," are happening too.
Called Out for Transit Apathy
It's hard to find people as passionate about LA's underrated downtown as some of the folks at LAist, but we have to admit the readers of Los Angeles Downtown News might give us a run for our money in the downtown passion department. In particular a reader by the name of Frederick, who had a "glass half empty" response to the downtown BID's recently published (and very self-congratulating) 2006 Demographic Study of New Downtown Residents and called out his fellow downtowners for bringing a suburban ethos to the center city.

