Recent Streetsblog LA posts about DASH

Limited Lead Led to Low Ridership for Late Night Red Line and DASH

By Damien Newton | Feb 6, 2009 | 2 Comments

Yesterday, LAist reported, based on an LADOT report, that roughly 1,000 people a night rode the Red Line during the expanded late night hours of the holiday season. The report admitted that because the plan had been adopted so late in the year, that there was insufficient lead time to market the program. Remember, the […]

Update on Last Week’s DASH Crash and Pedestrian Fatality

By Damien Newton | Jan 13, 2009 | 2 Comments

News and opinion continues to come in on last week’s horrific crash between a DASH bus and 58 year old pedestrian Gwendolyn Coleman. The most important of which came yesterday when Steve Hymon reported at LA Now that the police have determined that Coleman had the right away and a green light when the DASH […]

Media Silent on Horrific Bus Crash Downtown

By Damien Newton | Jan 8, 2009 | 30 Comments

Hat Tip to alert reader Ingrid Peterson. Yesterday morning, a DASH bus crashed into a woman in the crosswalk on Flower Street, just after 5th, in the cross walk that leads to LA public library. First hand accounts of the crash were pretty graphic and the pedestrian is assumed dead since, in the words of […]

Rosendahl Slams Dodgers, Future of Shuttle in Doubt?

By Damien Newton | Nov 24, 2008 | 1 Comment

Tucked away at the end of last week’s City Council meeting was an update on the Dodger Shuttle, the city-provided bus service to Dodger Stadium that ran for the second half of the baseball season and the playoffs. In brief, the program was an overwhelming success. Transporting over 700 riders each way, the program averaged […]

How You Can Tell Transit Has Arrived: Red Line Bar Hops Planned

By Damien Newton | Nov 21, 2008 | 4 Comments

Tonight is the night that late night train service on the Red Line begins in Downtown Los Angeles. Rising to the occasion, LADOT has also extended the hours for DASH service so buses will be in place to support the transit lines. All of this is great news, LA is finally realizing that late night […]

LADOT Ready for Late Night DASH Service

By Damien Newton | Nov 4, 2008 | 2 Comments

LADOT has officially joined in the effort to bring late night transit service to downtown Los Angeles. A new report by the Department encourages the City Council to fund their proposal to run late night bus service along two routes in the Downtown. However, while their is support for the bus routes, the proposal won’t […]

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