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Monumental sculpture, Time Piece, at new El Monte Station!

Time Piece, a sculpture designed by Donald Lipski for the new El Monte Station, which includes three double sided clocks, and is suspended by a network of cables from a 30 foot tall stainless steel...

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A brief glimpse into the magical world of the Metro Bus Roadeo

 

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Go CicLAvia, Go Metro Art!

Expo/Crenshaw Station, Wanderers, Willie Robert Middlebrook, artist This Sunday, when you’re walking, cycling, skating or otherwise playing your way through the streets at CicLAvia, be sure to check...

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Artists of the Metro Orange Line exhibition opens October 11 at Los Angeles...

One of the artworks included in the exhibition. Entitled Pond Landscape, by artist Phung Huynh, the artwork is an oil and collage on wooden panel. •Opening Reception & Artists Panel Discussion:...

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Iconic sculpture watches over new El Monte Station

Time Piece, a sculpture designed by Donald Lipski for the new El Monte Station, which includes three double sided clocks, and is suspended by a network of cables from a 30 foot tall stainless steel...

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Photo art lightboxes on the move

Detail of Sparrow Lane by Holly Andres, on view at Vermont/Beverly Station. Have you seen this art? Metro’s Art Lightboxes are getting around. In addition to the often large-scale work that Metro Art...

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Pay your Metro Rail fare using tokens

Hat tip to L.A. Streetsblog’s Dana Gabbard for a post asking a question we get occasionally: can tokens still be used to pay Metro fares at ticket machines? The answer is yes, as the following plucked...

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Artists of the Metro Orange Line exhibition closes December 13

One of the artworks included in the exhibition. Entitled Pond Landscape, by artist Phung Huynh, the artwork is an oil and collage on wooden panel. Last chance!  Translations: Artists of the Metro...

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Metro celebrates 100th anniversary of Arthur Winston Division 5

Metro Board Directors and Metro executives gathered this week at Arthur Winston Division 5 to celebrate the bus maintenance facility’s 100th birthday. Division 5 opened on December 30, 1912 as a...

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January Service Council meetings

A new year brings a new slate of topics to be discussed at January Service Council meetings. All of the January meetings will be held at the regularly scheduled times, days, and locations. For a...

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What do Universal Delights, kaleidoscope dreams and flying people have in...

Artist Stephen Johnson’s 58-foot long mural, titled Universal Delights, at Universal City Station. The mural celebrates the film and television industry through an juxtaposition of colors, shapes, and...

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50 years ago today: A preview of “magic-eye” fare-readers and a subway to...

Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the most important speeches in local transit history. Rendering for proposed rail to Century City It involved a 1963 vision for the future of local...

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New sculpture to be installed at Artesia Transit Center*

Saar’s work in progress at the fabricator’s studio. A full-scale rendition of the sculptural windscreen had been carved in foam. From this carving, a mold was made—shown above. The final artwork is...

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Metro Board approves renaming of three Metro Rail stations

Metro’s Board of Directors approved the name changes of three Metro Rail subway stations during the Thursday, Jan. 24 Board Meeting. The Metro Red Line Civic Center Station will now be the “Civic...

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New sculpture is installed at Artesia Transit Center*

Detail of Paraje—Spanish for a resting place between two destinations—a 10ft h x 10ft w cast stainless steel sculpture containing imagery inspired by the nearby Gardena Willows Wetlands. Preserve. A...

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First phase of Metro Red Line celebrates 20-year anniversary

Click to view slideshow. “This day is here…” On January 29, 1993, former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley stood among a swarm of public officials and transit agency staffers on the cramped Pershing Square...

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20 years ago today: videos of the Red Line’s opening on Jan. 29, 1993

Here are a pair of videos on the opening of the first segment of the Red Line on Jan. 29, 1993 — so 20th century! Thanks to the Metro Transit Library & Archive on digging these up and for all the...

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Red Line 20th anniversary video, part two: Is this what city planners had in...

I love the question posed in the opening of this 1989 video, suggesting that city planners could not have possibly been thinking of what Los Angeles had become: TrafficVille. My two cents: I think...

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Metro’s first 20 years: an interactive timeline (part one: the projects)

It’s a week of anniversaries at Metro: The Metro Red Line began operating 20 years ago this week just a few days before Day One of Metro on Feb. 1, 1993. The above timeline is the first of two that...

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Photos of track work underway this weekend at junction of Blue and Expo lines

Photos by Stephen Tu/Metro. The photos above, taken early Saturday afternoon, show the replaced diamond frog at the junction of the Blue Line and Expo Line tracks at Washington and Flower in downtown...

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