Recent Streetsblog LA posts about A Line (Blue Line)

Rosa Parks Station on Track to Complete Environmental Review Process, Finalize Station Design

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 4, 2015 | 7 Comments

If you’ve ever tried to navigate the Rosa Parks/Willowbrook station, either to transfer between the Blue and Green Lines or to catch one of the nearly dozen buses that connect with the station, you know it isn’t the most user-friendly place. Not only do the narrow stairs connecting the two platforms (used by 78% of […]

Metro Diary: When Contractors Don’t Get the “Off-Limits” Memo on Harassment

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 2, 2015 | 6 Comments

“Are you riding the train…?” came the voice over my shoulder. It is perhaps one of the more terrible pick-up lines I have heard in a good while. Especially because I was standing on the Blue Line platform at Grand — a minimally furnished and poorly shaded station in the middle of a hectic stretch […]

Eyes on the Street: Car Collides with Southbound Train on Expo/Blue Line Tracks

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 4, 2015 | 12 Comments

If you’ve ever taken the Blue Line (or Expo Line) headed south, you know that riding the section between San Pedro station and Pico is like watching paint dry. It is torturously slow. Which may be why drivers feel they can outrun the train. I’ve seen people squeak through the intersection on red at Pico […]

Metro Takes Another Step Forward in Effort to Build and Preserve Affordable Housing at Transit Hubs

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 2, 2015 | 12 Comments

In case you haven’t heard, we’re in a bit of an affordable housing crunch. According to the L.A. Times, “the city recently estimated that 82,000 additional affordable units will be needed by 2021.” Non-profit developers have been aware of this problem for some time. Approximately 8000 families applied for the 184 units of affordable housing […]

Motion to Move Forward on Rail-to-River Bikeway Project up for Vote Thursday

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 22, 2014 | 15 Comments

In a motion before the Metro Executive Management Committee last Thursday morning, County Supervisor and Metro Board Member Mark Ridley-Thomas cited the successful “transformation of unused or abandoned rail right-of-ways into pedestrian access and bicycle routes” around the country and here in L.A. as support for his call that the Board direct Chief Executive Officer […]

Metro Diary: Every Day He’s Hustlin’

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 19, 2014 | 7 Comments

The well-dressed and good-looking young man with enormous glasses walked toward where I was standing at the front of the packed Blue Line car, gave me a wink and a smile, then turned around and began delivering his sales pitch for headphones to the passengers. Watching him work the car, I was reminded of how […]

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