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MTA buses, subways and railroads provide 2.4 billion trips each year and its bridges and tunnels carry more than 300 million vehicles annually. The agency operates the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, Long Island Bus and NYC Transit, which includes the city's subway system, bus routes in the five boroughs and the Staten Island Railway.
MTA buses, subways and railroads provide 2.4 billion trips each year and its bridges and tunnels carry more than 300 million vehicles annually. The agency operates the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, Long Island Bus and NYC Transit, which includes the city's subway system, bus routes in the five boroughs and the Staten Island Railway.
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Staples Center has a full dance card this weekend
Imagine tens of thousands of cycling fans gathered in front of Staples Center on Sunday morning for the final leg of the country's largest stage cycling race, the Amgen Tour of California.
Now mix in 20,000 hockey fans, nearly all of them giddy in the...Tags: Sports, Los Angeles Police Department, Media Industry, ESPN (tv network), National Hockey League
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Atlantic on the move
The 5600 block of Atlantic Avenue doesn't look like much at first glance, especially if you're zipping through at 45 mph. A dry cleaner, a pupuseria, a T-shirt shop and a medical marijuana dispensary line the low-rise street in the North Village Annex...
Tags: Sports, Frederick Law Olmsted, Transportation, Mike Davis, Automotive Equipment
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Beverly Hills subway video: Two thumbs up for explosions!
Do Joss Whedon's kids go to Beverly Hills High School? I ask because the school district's parent teacher council recently came out with a video -- apparently made by parents of kids in the district, some of whom work in the entertainment industry --...
Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Subway Transportation Industry, Emergency Incidents, Transportation, Science and Technology
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Review: Lackluster Expo Line reflects Metro's weak grasp of design
This is getting to be a pattern. Every time a major rail line opens in Los Angeles, my reaction tends to unfold in two distinct parts: excitement tempered pretty quickly by a sense of disappointment, of opportunities missed. The $930-million Expo Line is...
Tags: Alternative Energy, Natural Resources, Renewable Energy, Forests, Arts and Culture
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MTA's rail car reasoning
It is in the nature of politicians to keep making the same mistakes over and over again, especially if they're the kind of mistakes favored by the lawmakers' key financial backers. So the award of an important rail car contract Monday by the...
Tags: Japan, Plant Openings, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, AFL-CIO
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Caltrans to add truck lanes to I-5 for Santa Clarita commute
Local and state officials have announced a $72-million project to add truck lanes on the Interstate 5 through Newhall Pass and into Santa Clarita. The truck lanes are needed to separate heavy big-rig traffic from passenger vehicles and create safer,...
Tags: California Department of Transportation, Highway Transportation
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Letters: Lost jobs for California
Re "Japanese firm wins Metro job," May 1 With our economy so fragile, how dare L.A. County transportation planners award a contract to build rail cars to a Japanese company? We need to have the good people of California working. This was a great...Tags: Alternative Energy
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Assembly OKs bill allowing clean-air autos in car-pool lanes
A bill that would prevent local transit agencies from tossing solo drivers in zero- and low-emission vehicles out of some car-pool lanes cleared the California Assembly on Thursday. The legislation, authored by Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield (D-Woodland...
Tags: Road Transportation, Passenger Cars, Ford, Highway Transportation, Transportation
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Critic's Notebook: Metro douses expectations on Union Station project
Talk about raining on your own parade. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority coaxed Renzo Piano from Paris, Ban van Berkel from Amsterdam and a bunch of talented local architects from the far Westside and brought them together Wednesday afternoon...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture, Renzo Piano, International Trade, Jerry Brown
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Letters: Beverly Hills and the Westside subway
Re "Clear the tracks, Beverly Hills," Editorial, April 21 Ever since Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) prevented our subway from being finished by pushing though a ban on federal funds for tunneling under Wilshire Boulevard on the Westside, we have...Tags: Subway Transportation, Transportation, Henry Waxman, Travel
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Metro awards rail contract to Japanese firm despite union protests
L.A. NOWIn a break with L.A.'s powerful organized labor movement, Metro board members awarded a crucial $890 million rail car contract to a giant Japanese firm that unions claim will create fewer jobs than a competitor and might violate federal requirements to... -
MTA, in a switch, does right on rail cars
It is in the nature of politicians to keep making the same mistakes over and over again, especially if they're the kind of mistakes favored by a lawmaker's key financial backers. Yet the award of an important rail-car contract Monday by the Metropolitan...
Tags: Weight, Facebook, Japan, Plant Openings, Companies and Corporations
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