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• Metrolink Considering Counterproductive Rate Hike

  
  HolyCoast.com — Authority: 602
  After my experience with Metrolink last night Im not inclined to use their services again anytime soon, but if they go through with this rate hike a lot of other people will quit using them too: The five-county rail agencys board is scheduled to decide this week whether to increase fares by as much as 6%. Some ...
  1 day ago

• Freight Train Derails In Los Angeles, Blocks Metrolink Commuter Lines

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 516
  Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer Los Angeles, CA (AHN) - A freight train of Union Pacific derailed near Metrolinks Union Station and prevented commuter trains from going to Los Angeles on Monday.
  2 days ago

• Thanks Metrolink for Screwing Up My Evening

  
  HolyCoast.com — Authority: 602
  We had plans tonight to hop aboard the Metrolink in Laguna Niguel, ride to Fullerton for dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory, and then ride home again. When we got to the station there were signs all over, including the scrolling electronic signs, that all trains today would use Track 2 because of platform ...
  2 days ago

• Train Buffs Killed in Fullerton

  
  HolyCoast.com — Authority: 602
  The Amtrak station in Fullerton is one of the most popular places in Southern California for train buffs to congregate. Every day about 100 trains pass through the station, including the scheduled AMTRAK and Metrolink trains, and dozens of Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight trains headed to or from the Port of Los ...
  4 days ago

• Orange County Trains Slow After Metrolink Train Hit Pickup

  
  Los Angeles Injury Lawyers : : 888-400-9721 — Authority: 110
  November 4, 2009 (by Horatio Algren) According to reports the Orange County train lines were slowed after an early morning crash . According to Angela Starr at approximately 6:45 a.m. a Metrolink train struck a stalled pickup truck in the vicinity of Norwalk. A Chevy pickup truck was traveling northbound on ...
  6 days ago

• Metrolink train strikes pedestrian in Claremont [Updated]

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 815
  Metrolink is reporting that its San Bernardino Line Train 314 struck a trespassing pedestrian at Indian Hill Boulevard in Claremont. The accident was reported about 3:35 p.m. Passengers were reportedly being transferred to another train. [ Updated 5:28 p.m.:] Los Angeles County fire officials said the pedestrian ...
  6 days ago

• Metrolink train hits truck, causing delays but no injuries

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 815
  A Metrolink train hit a stalled pickup truck about 6:45 a.m. today in Norwalk, causing several delays on its Orange County line trains. The accident occurred near Rosecrans Avenue and Marquardt Avenue, said Metrolink spokeswoman Angela Starr. A Chevy truck was traveling northbound on Marquardt and making a left turn ...
  6 days ago

• MetroLink expansion would take many years, Metro officials say

  
  Along for the Ride — Authority: 116
  Robert Baer If the region started now to plan for the next MetroLink expansion, eight years may pass before the new segment opens, Metro officials say. And under questioning from from St. Louis County Councilman Greg Quinn, R-Ballwin, Metro President Robert Baer said it…
  1 week ago

• They’re watching me.

  
  KateOhKatie blogs — Authority: 121
  It’s a pretty common daydream/fantasy, I think, to imagine that you’re a secret celebrity, that you’re being watched and admired when you don’t realize it.  To imagine that people *notice* you, just for being you.  That people miss you when you’re absent. Here’s the thing – and I know this is gonna ...
  2 weeks ago

• Metrolink train hits pedestrian in Burbank

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 815
  A pedestrian was hit by a Metrolink train in Burbank this morning, temporarily delaying service on the Ventura County line, officials said. The unidentified person was walking on the tracks about 9.20 a.m. at the downtown Burbank station when Train 110 came by, said Metrolink spokeswoman Angela M. Starr. Starr ...
  2 weeks ago

• Today in Chutzpah: After the Chatsworth Metrolink crash last...

  
  Curbed LA — Authority: 640
  After the Chatsworth Metrolink crash last year that killed 25 people, Metrolink installed cameras in their trains "to ensure that engineers adhered to agency bans on cellphones, text messaging and allowing unauthorized passengers in the cab." Now the Los Angeles Times reports the Metrolink drivers union is suing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Metrolink engineers union sues to block surveillance cameras in locomotives

  
  L.A. NOW — Authority: 815
  The union representing Metrolink engineers today filed a federal lawsuit to halt the video-surveillance systems recently installed in all of the commuter rail line’s locomotives. Metrolink installed cameras as a direct response to the deadly 2008 Metrolink crash in Chatsworth that killed 25 people and apparently ...
  3 weeks ago

• American trains were once the safest in the world. Today - are they the most dangerous?

  
  CruisingThePast.com — Authority: 123
  The way it was aboard the Pullman Company in the 1930s through the 1960s.  This ad boast on the safety of traveling by Pullman.  It was the safest form of travel in America and transported over a 100,000 passengers each night in safety and comfort aboard their sleeping cars. The way it is today with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Building an Organic Machine Along the LA River

  
  California High Speed Rail Blog — Authority: 551
  It is impossible to address the broad crisis facing California without affecting some preexisting plan in some way. Whether its the transmission lines needed to carry power to cities from a solar plant in the Mojave Desert or the Carrizo Plain or whether its building a light rail line next to an LA high school or ...
  3 weeks ago

• National Briefing | West: California: Rail Agency Settles

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  A commuter rail agency in Southern California agreed to pay about $30 million to settle most of the lawsuits from a 2005 derailment.
  3 weeks ago

• Metrolink fare hike: A picture with three frames

  
  MetroRiderLA MetroRiderLA: Los Angeles Transit Oriented Lifestyle Blog — Authority: 508
  Photo by Fred Camino via Flickr . This and other photos can be seen on the MetroRiderLA Flickr pool . Metrolink plans to raise its fares by January 1, increasing single-ticket prices 3 percent to 6 percent , making the price of 10-trip tickets the equivalent of 5 round trips, and suspending a discount for ...
  4 weeks ago

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