The best fun you can have for 25 cents in Los Angeles for one minute could soon be twice as expensive, when Angels Flight reopens after undergoing repairs, and the fare is doubled. more ›

Thanks to Christmas Day falling on a Sunday this year, today is a legal holiday, and that means things are quiet in Los Angeles, with many offices and services closed or limited. 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 ›

One of 18 new retaining walls installed in the Sepulveda Pass as part of the ongoing 405 Freeway improvement project has begun to collapse. The wall began to buckle last week during the strong windstorm, say area residents, according to MyFoxLA. 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 ›

The full Metro Board of Directors are getting together Thursday for their regular monthly meeting, and included on the agenda is changing the name of six Metro stations. more ›

Who's got a ticket to ride? Metro's fare gate lockdown is producing interesting results as the agency determines approximately what percentage of passengers are using paper tickets as opposed to TAP cards. This four-week effort aids in Metro's mission to get the TAP system and turnstile entry secured and running. Metro officials are spot-checking passengers' tickets as they get off the Red and Purple Lines. more ›

For five hours on Sunday, October 9, Los Angeles dedicated a 10-mile downtown route to the beauty of green movement in its third installment of CicLAvia. Attendees were free to walk, run, bike, dance, kartwheel - whatever moved their bodies - except for drive a car. more ›

It can get pretty loud inside a commuter rail car, thanks to people listening to music, watching movies, or talking loudly on their phones or with fellow passengers. To rectify the problem, Metrolink has announced that starting October 3, they will offer a "Quiet Car" on every weekday train to help improve the ride. more ›

As announced Wednesday, the mother of the victim of a fatal stabbing aboard a Red Line train has filed a claim against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), asserting there is inadequate security on the subway and in stations. more ›

You know how you wave your TAP card to log in the fare deduction, but those turnstiles at Metro rail stations are really just going through the motions? This month, riders of the Red and Purple lines will encounter functional (read; locked!) fare gates at four stations as Metro preps to get the TAP system and turnstile entry secured and running. more ›

We think we can, we think we can: The Expo Line's Phase 2, which extends light rail transportation from Culver City to Santa Monica, is going to happen, and things are getting going this morning. A groundbreaking event is being held to officially mark the beginning of construction on the project. more ›

Check out the hustle and bustle of L.A.'s "575,000 souls" in the retail district, shopping for curious wares from the Orient, chugging up Bunker Hill on Angels Flight, and riding their horseless carriages through Downtown's tunnels in this film from 1917. more ›

How many times have gotten behind the wheel, cursing the fact that if Metro had lines and service to go where you needed it to, you'd be among the ranks of the regular transit users in the city? Sometimes imagining a better city can help build one. One reader shares his map and vision for transit in L.A. more ›

Metro says they have cleared another hurdle in their current endeavor to (finally) put in place an efficient transit link to serve Los Angeles International Airport. Wednesday, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) gave approval to release the Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report (FEIS/R) for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor, says the transit agency, and local politicians are already cheering the train's arrival. more ›

Historical transportation maps of Los Angeles are always intriguing to study, even if they cause eyes to cross and vision to blur. A high resolution scan from the David Rumsey Map Collection reveals intricate details of L.A.'s 1928 transit system pre-freeways. more ›

As part of a recently-launched campaign to get rider input about extending the current Green Line to the Los Angeles International Airport, Metro has put out a new video extolling the virtues of their plan to explore their options on the matter. more ›

When CicLAvia returns this October, it will be bigger — and organizers hope better — than before. Organizers unveiled the new route this week that includes the same 7.5-mile route from the last two events and new offshoots into Chinatown and the Fashion District. more ›

Conventional wisdom dictates that if you are fleeing from the cops in your car you will ultimately get caught. Same goes for when you try to run from them through a Metro Red Line subway tunnel. A 51-year-old man gave it a go yesterday, running along the tracks from Hollywood and Vine to Hollywood and Western, which is about a mile-long stretch. more ›

File this under Not at All Surprising: 84% of commuters in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana region drive themselves by car, truck, or van, between home and work. The data comes from an analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2009 American Community Survey, reports the Los Angeles Business. Sheesh. No wonder we wigged the eff out about Carmageddon! more ›

If you are a cyclist who would use Metrolink to get around more if only their trains could store more bikes, your wish has been granted. The transit agency has announced a pilot program that finds two of their passenger railcars remodeled as "bicycle cars," set up to accommodate at least 18 bicycles. more ›

With August comes the start of a one-year program that finds the Metro Day Pass being sold for a "rollback" price of $5. As of yesterday, passengers could pick up their $5 pass at ticket vending machines and when boarding Metro buses. 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 ›

Sometimes reading the fine print does prevent misunderstandings down the line, but this one just seems kind of sneaky: Metro's TAP fare cards actually expire 3 years after they are activated. Transit blogger (for Metro!) Fred Camino learned this the hard way, as he explains on The Source. more ›

One way to get around the traffic mess of Carmageddon: FLY. No, not with your two arms flapping, some pixie dust, and happy thoughts. Try on an airplane. JetBlue has announced they're offering two special nonstop flights #OverThe405, between Long Beach Airport and Bob Hope Airport in Burbank this Saturday during Carmageddon. The flights will be--and this is kind of insane--$4 each way. more ›

The Westside subway extension, which would bring Metro's Purple Line from its current Wilshire/Western terminus to Westwood, got what some are hailing as a "major step" closer to some big federal funding. California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer made a joint announcement today, urging the U.S. Department of Transportation to okay a $641 million federal loan for the project. more ›