Passenger Transportation

Eric Garcetti Muzzles Taxi Czar Who Criticized Uber

When it comes to Uber, Tom Drischler does not mince words. The smartphone app that allows users to hail towncars moved into L.A. last year, disrupting the traditional model of taxi service.Drischler, the city's taxi administrator, believed Uber and its competitors Lyft and Sidecar were brazenly viol ... More >>

Ride-Sharing Apps Fight Back

Cab companies are using their muscle at City Hall, but Uber, Lyft and Sidecar have the momentum

A Father's Day Event That's Free (Parking: $150)

High-Speed Train to Vegas From Victorville

Just one hitch: You have to drive to Victorville

Former Valley State Assemblyman Richard Katz Bails From California High-Speed Rail Board

No. 1 with a bullet: California's high-speed rail project.​After we reported that former state Assemblyman Richard Katz might have been breaking the law by sitting on two government boards -- L.A.'s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and California's High Speed Rail Authority -- Katz caved ... More >>

LAX Approves Settlement Worth $118 Million

​As the city grapples with a $222 million deficit, the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners Monday approved a settlement of a lawsuit brought by a few airlines that would be worth about $118 million if the deal is approved by the City Council and the plaintiffs. The settlement would end ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Proposition R: The Most Expensive

Suburbanites hold the cards in approving a countywide sales-tax increase for mass transit

War Over MTA's "Eternity" Tax

The "temporary" sales tax would last 30 years. It's already set Eastside against Westside

Do You Trust MTA With $40 billion?

Vast sums spent on West Coast mass transit haven't paid off. Now they want a tax

The Really Friendly Skies

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

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

MTA's Plan to Gate L.A.

Miraculously, our subways use an honor system. The pencil pushers just hate that

MTA's $1 Billion Development Scheme

Eleven transit honchos were barred from voting due to money conflicts. So they drew straws.

What's Smart About Smart Growth?

City Hall's plan for the future expects you to give up the yard, the car - and learn to love density

Jet Blues

Chronicle of an airport refugee

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.

Lines in the Sand

Strikes threaten two local industries

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

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