Download the Transit 101 Guide & Make a New Year’s Resolution to Try Transit!
While most of our dedicated followers are of course true transit afficianados, for many Angelenos, public transportation remains an unknown — a sometimes intimidating mode of travel that’s foreign to the “car cultured” among us.
That’s why Angelenos Against Gridlock has produced a handy “Transit 101” guide for people to learn the basics about trying public transportation. View, download, or print the guide below. (Click here to view it directly on Scribd if the embedded version doesn’t appear, or view a basic HTML version), or download a printable PDF, and make a new year’s resolution to try transit!
Already a transit rider? Great! You’re an enlightened Angeleno. Why not tweet out a link to this guide, share it on Facebook, or email your friends and colleagues who aren’t (yet) transit riders.
Video: Apple Store Opens in NYC’s Grand Central Terminal. Will a similar scene play out at LA Union Station some day, too?
This morning, a Metro and City of Los Angeles sponsored Urban Land Institute advisory panel presented its findings on the future of Union Station and environs. Read Carter Rubin’s coverage at The Source, and stay tuned for a written report in coming months from ULI. Meanwhile, today in New York, Apple opened a new store in NYC’s Grand Central Terminal. Imagine if one day we could see scenes like those shown in this video from NYC, by TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld, here at Los Angeles Union Station, too. (Visit TechCrunch for more photos & video.)
Alta Bicycle Share President Alison Cohen, featured at the recent Opportunity Green Business Conference earlier this month in LA, talks about Alta and bikesharing in this video.
Alta does the bikeshare systems in cities like Washington, DC and Boston, and has been chosen to launch New York’s upcoming system.
How would you like to see Metro, LADOT, Big Blue Bus, and other SoCal transit agencies step up their use of social media?
Should Metro patner with Foursquare, like BART did in the Bay Area?
Would you like to see the @MetroLosAngeles Twitter account have more of a voice? (Right now, it’s can seem pretty duplicative of the @metrolaalerts account.) Think municipal operators need to step up their game, or think they should just focus on service?
Too bad LA doesn’t have more beautiful bike trails that Google Street view could show off!
Here’s a Google video about how the Google Street View trike:
As we think about California high-speed rail, it can be useful to look at other systems already out there in the world. If you’ve never been to Europe and taken their high-speed trains, check out this video.
The European Commission produced this mini Documentary (<13minutes) called High-speed lines. A journey through Europe, which they describe thusly:
“High-speed Lines” is a human-orientated documentary about the growing success of high-speed trains and its extending network throughout Europe. Listen to the stories of train passengers and train professionals: stories about speed, comfort, punctuality, new technology and environmental-friendly solutions. The continuously expanding network of high-speed trains is a key element to establish an efficient Trans-European Network for Transport (TEN-T). A whole new industry has been emerging which will give the economy, employment, competitiveness, technological development and further unification of Europe a tremendous boost.”
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