Subway Transportation

Mayor candidates on transportation: innovation vs. tried and true

2013-05-18 18:25:00

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...

L.A. Philharmonic concerned about potential subway noise

2013-05-17 06:12:00

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...

Garcetti sees Hollywood as 'a template for a new Los Angeles'

2013-05-10 18:30:00

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...

Michael Buble gives surprise NYC subway performance

2013-04-26 13:57:00

Well, Michael Bubl�, you've made our hearts melt yet again. The crooner gave an impromptu performance at the�66th Street Lincoln Center stop of the New York subway Thursday, singing the Jackson 5's "Who's Lovin' You." He sang the song with a capella...

Review: Nora Ephron's 'Lucky Guy' is great news

2013-04-01 20:40:00

NEW YORK — In the program for "Lucky Guy," the play Nora Ephron raced to complete before her death last year, there's a note by the author titled "Journalism: A Love Story." That's a pretty good description of the drama, Ephron's valentine to...

Letters: They way Wilshire was

2013-03-29 00:00:00

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...

Bomb materials linked to suspect in killing of prisons chief

2013-03-26 17:32:00

The man accused of killing Colorado's prisons chief had bomb-making materials in his trunk when he got into a highway shootout in Texas, according to court documents released Tuesday. The gun that killed Colorado prisons director Tom Clements last...

Letters: Ideas for a more livable L.A.

2013-03-07 00:00:00

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....

Los Angeles' major public spaces remain broken works in progress

2013-03-02 08:00:00

Los Angeles, more than most cities, has defined itself by continual bursts of expansion and an unflagging optimism about its place in the world. But as the city has grown to a population nearing 4 million, we've neglected some major holes in the civic...

Letters: Tunnel vision in Beverly Hills

2013-02-21 00:00:00

Re "Beverly Hills' subway spat," Editorial, Feb. 19 There is widespread support for the Westside subway extension in Beverly Hills. Notwithstanding the tunneling issue, about 65% of the city's residents voted in favor of Measure R in 2008 as well as its...

Three heroes save man from being hit by New York subway train

2013-02-18 14:48:00

In a city where reports of people being struck and killed by subway trains are all too common, New Yorkers awoke on Monday to learn of a heroic rescue of man who fell onto the tracks. The man, whose identity was not released, was apparently drunk and...

Beverly Hills' subway spat

2013-02-19 00:00:00

Beverly Hills' embarrassing battle against the Westside subway extension, which emerged as a major political issue last year, is becoming one of the key issues in the March 5 city elections. With the lines hardening between those determined to take...

A man fell onto subway tracks in Philadelphia, and a bystander jumped down to rescue him.

2013-03-29 14:40:28

A man enters a subway station in New York. At the Columbus Circle station Sunday, a man who fell onto the tracks was rescued by three men moments before a train pulled in.

2013-02-08 00:00:00

A man who punched a woman at a Philadelphia subway station and then threw her onto the tracks -- all caught on this video -- has been arrested. The woman survived with cuts and bruises.

2013-01-18 10:01:59