Subway Transportation Industry

During eight years in office, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa staked much of his legacy on transportation. He lobbied Washington for millions of dollars in federal funding. He oversaw the addition of 150 miles of bike lanes. And, five years ago, he...

I am competing for space on the stately marble stairs with dozens of other camera-wielding tourists, all of us aiming our lenses at the teeming floor below. It's like Grand Central around here. And that, of course, is because it's Grand Central....

Nothing in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's repertoire calls for 135-ton trains. The orchestra aims to keep it that way when Metro light rail cars start rumbling through a subway tunnel near Walt Disney Concert Hall. Experts who know the hall's...

Hoping for more money from the state, the SEPTA board is postponing action on its budgets for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Fare increases are still expected on that date. The board's budget committee on Thursday proposed deferring until June...

TORONTO - Streetcars, sharks, pandas and parasols. This summer, Canada's largest city will be vibrantly alive. Just watch out for construction. The biggest news here is the planned opening this summer of Ripley's Aquarium, a $130-million project that...

Chris Robbins could be a poster child for mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti's vision for Los Angeles. Each morning, Robbins straps on a backpack, cues up his iPod and sets out on a short walk to the subway, which whisks him to his downtown public...

More money or less service. That was the familiar essence of SEPTA's capital-budget presentation Tuesday, as the agency noted how little $308 million will buy these days. In two hearings at its Center City headquarters, SEPTA officials outlined what...

In the shadow of the Empire State Building at a playground in bustling Madison Square Park, my daughter uttered the words that must send shivers up the spines of every parent in New York City. "I have to go potty." The breathless bathroom quest that...

When Jennifer Coyne took off for her 26.2 miles of Monday's 117th Boston Marathon, completing the prestigious race was the second-best memory she expected to experience. The first would be doing so while being five months pregnant. Little did Coyne...

Re "It all begins on Wilshire," March 24 I have always been fascinated by Wilshire Boulevard, the great thoroughfare analyzed by Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. While I had a job on Wilshire near Vermont Avenue as a twentysomething in...

 I looked at a lot of restaurant scores earlier this week for a story I wrote on restaurants that failed inspections. The South Dakota Department of Health listed eight (later corrected to seven) Aberdeen restaurants on its website as scoring below 80,...

Re "Broken civic promise," Critic's Notebook, March 3 I was glad to read Christopher Hawthorne's piece on Los Angeles' missed opportunities, miscalculations and wrong choices regarding the creation of our public spaces and public transit systems....