Mass Transit Systems

U.S. Senator Inouye Puts Villaraigosa, MTA on Notice

U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii has sent a letter to the MTA regarding a pet project of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, "strongly" urging the transportation agency to "be responsive to the concerns and ideas of both residents and businesses located in Little Tokyo." Local community acti ... More >>

MTA Orders More Handicapped Training After Channel 7 Report

Metropolitan Transit Authority workers are about to receive more training on how to handle handicapped bus riders -- some of whom had been thrown out of improperly secured wheelchairs during sudden traffic stops. The MTA action taken Thursday came in response to a two-month ABC Channel 7 undercov ... More >>

The Thin Blue Line Strikes Again

LAist reports that an MTA Blue Line train collided with a car or truck earlier this afternoon at Washington Boulevard and Main Street, sending one person to the hospital. A later blog post by the L.A. Times claims a total of three people were injured, with one woman trapped in the vehicle. Only last ... More >>

LA People 2009: No More Mr. Nice Guy — Damien Goodmon

What's My (MTA) Line? A Tale of Two Names

L.A. County Supervisor Gloria Molina's proposal to christen the stretch of the Gold Line that cuts through the mostly Latino Eastside  "Linea de Oro" met with the reality of all cultural politics in this city and emerged with a cumbersome, but bilingual moniker. The Metropolitan Transportation ... More >>

Is N.Y. Times' 'Freaknomics' Falling in Love With L.A.?

Talk about your truth and reconciliation commissions -- South Africa's have had nothing on the New York Times, lately. Or at least, that paper's Freakonomics blog, which has been running a six-part series written by UCLA's Eric A. Morris, alluringly called "Los Angeles Transportation Facts and Ficti ... More >>

Two Trains Running -- Or Maybe Not

MTA Headquarters: Have the deciders decided?Photo: Dave Parker/WikipediaDamien Goodmon, South L.A.'s indefatigable public transportation activist, is sounding an alarm about the possible shelving of rail projects in his heavily African American community. Goodmon's group, the Citizens' Campaign to F ... More >>

Did Subway Cheaters Put Egg On L.A.'s Face?

MTA is dismantling the honor system, jacking up construction costs and lying about why

Shooting Down Trains

LAX director is no big fan of the Green Line

Low-Quality Promise

Mayor stretches his word on commission appointment

Go, Henry, Go

Light at the end of the Red Line tunnel

Letters

The Subway Mayor

How a bus-only politician — and a car-obsessed city — are learning to love the underground

Highs and Lows of L.A. Rail

Summer of Power

Antonio and his pursuit of a new L.A.

Red Line to Somewhere

Henry Waxman is onboard — sort of

Dennis Zine, City Council District 3

Mass Transit in L.A.

Let Them Pick Up Garbage

A plan for avoiding transit strikes in Los Angeles

Back in the Room

Exposing the power play that had silenced four labor-friendly MTA members

All A-Bored

The MTA’s mechanics aren’t the striking janitors of 2000

Stuck in Idle

Political reasons for the sluggish MTA contract talks

CitySweep

Letters

Derailed Dreams

Bus Riders Union is bad for L.A.'s transit future

Letters

Almost Aboard

Eastside L.A. ponders its transit future

A Vision for the City

A Weekly roundtable on the issues, movements and prospects for a progressive Los Angeles

The Part-Time Machine

Sometimes it’s enough to save full-time jobs

Tale of Two Strikes

Why the SEIU caved and the UTU hung tough

Mechanical Decency

Ignoring their president and the governor, the MTA’s mechanics stick by the drivers

Tensions on Board

Many Latino bus riders at odds with drivers and MTA strike

MTA Game Plan

The poor walk, so that the middle class can shrink

Smelly Buses

Audit finds sloppy procedures and interest conflicts in bus contract

Money for a Whistle Blower

MTA reaches out-of-court settlement with fired worker who alleged kickback

Los Dos Richards

Does Alatorre have a future?

No Fun To Stay at the MTA

The price of truth-telling

Alatorre Takes the Fifth — 108 Times

A federal suit may connect the dots on the doings of L.A.’s sleaziest councilman

The Arroyo Special

The Blue Line is a damned good idea — that costs too damned much

Letters

Fast Track

I got railroaded and now I’m hooked

1997 Timeline

Dig No More

But is this anyway to kill a subway?

Letters

...Some MTA officials have had the audacity to refer to the new coaches as "clean diesel." There is no such thing as "clean diesel," only dirty diesel and less dirty diesel. Both produce cancer-causing emissions...

Clean Air Takes Back Seat

Upgrades on the Gravy Train

We got laws for jokers like these

Truth Has Consequences at the MTA

Top cop blows Earnest case, bids for good press anyway

Gridlock

A Weekly roundtable discussion on the future of transportation in Los Angeles (that is, on the future of Los Angeles)

Checchi on the Cheap

Limited Access

Ramps and attitudes need fixing on L.A. public transit