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Post by nickv on Feb 23, 2008 21:42:42 GMT -8
Metro Red Line Hollywood/Highland Station Will Be Bypassed During Academy Awards Sunday, February 24; Metro Bus Service Along Hollywood Blvd. DetouredDue to an increase in security measures being implemented for the 80th Annual Academy Awards show at the Kodak Theater at the Hollywood and Highland complex in Hollywood on Sunday, Feb. 24 Metro Red Line subway trains will not stop at the Hollywood/Highland station. Metro Red Line trains will operate on a regular schedule but will simply pass through the Hollywood/Highland Station without stopping on Sunday, Feb. 24, only. There will be no public access to the Hollywood/Highland Metro Red Line Station. With the start of regular service on Monday, Feb. 25, all Metro Red Line trains will resume stops at the Hollywood/Highland Station in Hollywood. Due to street closures in the Hollywood Area, including the closure of Hollywood Boulevard, Metro Bus Lines 163, 210, 212, 217 and 780 will be detoured through Feb. 25. On Sunday, Feb. 24, Metro Bus Line 156 along Highland Ave. will be detoured. Service should be resumed by 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26.
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Post by James Fujita on Feb 24, 2008 14:08:34 GMT -8
I think I've said this every year since the Red Line opened, but having just one subway station entrance is STILL a monumentally stupid idea.
AND NOT JUST because of the Oscars! (It's possible that they could have several entrances at Hollywood/ Highland and still have to close the station)
BUT the more entrances you have, the more versatility you have, the more opportunities you have for grabbing people's attention, the more chances you have that if one entrance needs to be closed, the others might remain open, and even if some of the entrances are just "a staircase leading down into a pedestrian tunnel" that still gives the system more functionality.
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Post by spokker on Feb 27, 2008 2:13:16 GMT -8
Must save the precious celebrities from the subway!
As a subway rider it almost hurt. Almost.
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Post by Gokhan on Mar 17, 2008 7:18:43 GMT -8
March 17, 2008, laist
Person Found in Red Line Tunnel, Subway Schedule Off Update, 7:38 a.m.: The good news as of right now is that the person has been found awake and alert and is being assessed. At this point, the type of injuries are unknown and if they were actually hit by a train or not.
If the Red Line seems to be a bit off schedule today, it's because, as the Los Angeles Fire Department is reporting, at 6:50 a.m., there was a "reported person possibly down in tunnel" and "firefighters [are] making access to search area," according to an e-mail alert from spokesman Ron Meyers. The incident happened at the Vermont/Beverly station. Developing story.
The last time someone was hit by the Metro Red Line was on July 21st of last summer at the Westlake/MacArthur Park station.
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Post by Gokhan on Mar 17, 2008 13:04:45 GMT -8
Apparently even a "below-grade" alignment cannot prevent people from getting hit by trains... So much for the screamers for the Dorsey High and LAUSD.
Man hit by L.A. Metro subway train
Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times
Authorities say he apparently jumped at Vermont-Beverly Red Line stop. He is taken to a hospital 'awake and alert' but isn't talking about incident. Commuter trains are delayed until about 9 a.m.
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 10:51 AM PDT, March 17, 2008
A man was hospitalized after apparently jumping in the path of a subway train near the Mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles this morning, authorities said.
The man was "awake and alert" when rescuers removed him from beneath the train at the Vermont-Beverly Metro Red Line station in the 300 block of North Vermont Avenue shortly before 7 a.m. said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Ron Myers. The man was taken to a hospital, where his identity and condition have not been released, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Luis Nunez.
Investigators believe the man jumped in front of the train, but they have been unable to find witnesses and the man is not talking about what happened, Nunez said.
Authorities closed the station during the investigation, delaying some trains, until shortly before 9 a.m., Nunez said.
molly.hennessy-fiske@latimes.com
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Post by tonyw79sfv on Mar 17, 2008 18:17:50 GMT -8
I was caught in that jam this morning at the NoHo station. I got off the Orange Line and went to the Red Line station at 7:21am, I noticed there were still lots of people on the platform when I thought it would be empty since the trains leave NoHo every 10 minutes on the "9's". Then over the PA, an announcement was made that there will be delays because of an incident at Vermont/Beverly station, specifically, the announcer said it was a medical emergency. After about 10 minutes, a train arrived, but we left late at around 7:36am. Train operators were ordered to run the train with a 30MPH limit. I got to Vermont/Sunset by 7:56am and got into my office at 8am on the dot. Coming from Arleta, I usually plan my Metro trip with enough buffer time; today, I barely made it, luckily.
I then tried turning on the TV and found no mention of the incident. I turned on KFWB and they reported it during their traffic report as a fatality. But the best source was here (and LAist). So how can a guy go wandering in the tunnel like that? Seeing it's St. Patty's Day, I'm sure there is a reason.
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Post by James Fujita on Mar 17, 2008 20:36:04 GMT -8
man, guy like that deserves to win an honorary Darwin Award. technically, you have to be dead to win one, but he easily could have been!
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Post by erict on Apr 15, 2008 9:42:36 GMT -8
Hollywood Highland Second entrance studyfrom the Metro Board meetings metro.net/board/Items/2008/04_April/20080409OtherSectorWES_Item5B.pdf Westside/Central Sector Governance Council Motion Hollywood/Highland Second Entrance April 2008 The Hollywood/Highland subway station is possibly one of the busiest stations in the Metro System. During the major awards shows and events- such as the recent Academy Awards- this station is closed for a full day from our service sector patrons negatively impacting ridership. This set-up isn’t done around Rockefeller Center/Radio City Music Hall and its subway station because additional entrance portals are open to the public during the event while the main entrances towards the Radio City are closed off. At the current Hollywood/Highland platform a passenger can see a floating mezzanine on the opposite end of the platform with no current escalators, elevators or stairs attached to it. This entrance will be needed in future due to the increased density, development and pedestrian activity around the Hollywood/Highland area. I therefore move our sector service manager and other Metro planning and programming staff to study and return to the sector board and then forward to the full Metro Board within 120 days; 1) The ground level location of the additional portal entrance; 2) The location proximity to the Hollywood/Highland Parking structure for future connection options; 3) A rough cost itemization of opening this additional portal entrance and; 4) The amount of time it would take to install the additional portal entrance.
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Post by JerardWright on Apr 15, 2008 10:42:17 GMT -8
Just a heads-up on this particular item, an amendement was added to the motion to change the scope, time and questions regarding this study. I'm away from my desk and I can dig up my notes from the meeting to give you the exact language.
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Post by antonio on Apr 15, 2008 18:11:28 GMT -8
Seriously, not just Hollywood/Highland. ALL of our Red/Purple Stations need multiple entrances where possible. Universal also has the extra mezzanine which may be useful for the new NBC Center going there. It would also be great if there was an entrance across Lankershim as its not easy or pedestrian friendly to cross and get to the universal shuttle. It might be tougher at some other stations without taking out some buildings but in many cases the first mezzanine is right below the road (rather than the station square) and you basically need to just knock down a wall from a basement. Wilshire/Western and NoHo are two that come to mind and probably the two most necessary
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Post by Tony Fernandez on Apr 15, 2008 20:33:45 GMT -8
That pedestrian tunnel for Universal City has been a storied fight between Universal and Metro.
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Post by Transit Coalition on Apr 17, 2008 6:03:25 GMT -8
That pedestrian tunnel for Universal City has been a storied fight between Universal and Metro. And, it is finally being addressed as a pedestrian bridge as part of the upcoming Metro Studio @ Lankershim project, where NBC will relocate above the Red Line station. The EIR for this comes out in July, so it finally shows signs of moving ahead.
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Post by James Fujita on Apr 17, 2008 9:23:36 GMT -8
That pedestrian tunnel for Universal City has been a storied fight between Universal and Metro. And, it is finally being addressed as a pedestrian bridge as part of the upcoming Metro Studio @ Lankershim project, where NBC will relocate above the Red Line station. The EIR for this comes out in July, so it finally shows signs of moving ahead. I'm glad to hear that that pedestrian tunnel is FINALLY going to be addressed, even if it takes a rather large sounding project to do it: www.metrostudiolankershim.com/hard to judge from just a illustration, but it does look cool and I hope they can slay the inevitable NIMBYs. having multiple entrances at our subway stations should be as obvious and necessary as having multiple doors on our subway trains. we need to keep that in mind for both the westward expansion of the Purple Line and for the downtown regional connector.
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Post by wad on Apr 18, 2008 2:33:34 GMT -8
Wilshire/Western and NoHo are two that come to mind and probably the two most necessary Where would the second entrance go for Wilshire/Western? If you are thinking in the foot of the Wiltern complex, it would be a very tricky fit.
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Post by wad on Apr 18, 2008 2:36:12 GMT -8
That pedestrian tunnel for Universal City has been a storied fight between Universal and Metro. MCA/Universal even tried to get MTA to move the Universal City station to the top of the hill, near the Studios and CityWalk entrance. This was already when construction had already started on the Red Line to the Valley.
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Post by jejozwik on Apr 18, 2008 12:30:09 GMT -8
MCA/Universal even tried to get MTA to move the Universal City station to the top of the hill, near the Studios and CityWalk entrance. This was already when construction had already started on the Red Line to the Valley. sounds like the expo line
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Post by jejozwik on May 14, 2008 23:27:06 GMT -8
surprised it has not been posted here yet. if it has been put some place else, sorry i have not seen. [slow internet in indonesia] metro.net/news_info/press/metro_076v.htmanyhow im glad to see los angeles and the mta are finally reaching the 21st centry in terms of rail. finally were getting close to catching up to singapore and hong kong in terms on modernness
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Post by metrocenter on May 15, 2008 10:06:30 GMT -8
^ I have no problem with any silent adds, including print ads and silent moving ads. However, I have a big problem with the noisy "transit tvs" or whatever their called on the buses. Those things are noisy and horrible.
I'm so glad I don't rely on MTA bus to get to work (I take rail and BBB). If my bus route had those noisy tvs, I'd probably give up transit and drive.
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Post by jejozwik on May 15, 2008 19:18:00 GMT -8
you could use headphones but yes i agree some of them are really bad. though i do like the reintegrated map, when it is enabled
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Post by dane on Sept 16, 2008 11:31:52 GMT -8
Reported on the Bottleneck Blog:
Subway Goes Wrong Way This Morning
A Metro Rail Purple Line train went the wrong way this morning, ending up on tracks for the Red Line, rattling some riders, causing a 25-minute delay and provoking the rail service to apologize for the mix-up.
This morning, a Purple Line train departing from the Wilshire/Vermont station at 9:14 a.m. was supposed to head next to the Wilshire/Normandie station. But instead, the train ended up at the Vermont/Beverly station, serviced by the Red Line, Metro spokesman Rick Jager confirmed this afternoon.
The Red Line and the Purple Line share five stops together after departing Union Station downtown. But after the Wilshire/Vermont stop, the two are supposed to split off -- with the Red going to North Hollywood, and the Purple Line ending near the Wiltern Theatre in the Mid-Wilshire area.
However, even though Purple Line riders say they heard the conductor say the next stop was going to be at Normandie, they were surprised to end up at the Vermont/Beverly station.
Metro rider Carla Olson said the 75 or so people on board, many on the way to work, were panicked and bewildered and told to get off. They were told to reboard a Red Line train back to the Wilshire/Vermont stop and catch the next Purple Line train out, Olson said.
While there were no reports of any damage to property or persons, Olson said since Friday’s deadly Metrolink crash riders are a little more paranoid when something malfunctions on a rail service.
"A lot of us were shaken up a lot, especially the people who don’t speak English who didn’t know what anyone was saying," Olson said. "The person conducting obviously did not know what was going on, or that his track had been switched because he announced the Normandie stop."
Rick Jager, a Metro spokesman, said the train went to the wrong stop because an operator at the main rail operation facility input the wrong code into the system which automatically directs the trains on the tracks. Instead of inputing the code that would have directed it to the next Purple Line stop, it went to the Red line.
The Red and Purple lines operate on a rotating basis out of the Wilshire/Vermont station, Jager said. After a Purple Line train leaves, a Red Line train leaves, followed by a Purple Line train, and so forth.
Unlike Metrolink’s situation with last week’s crash, Metro rail trains operate on dual tracks and not on a single track, and the system uses technology that automatically brakes a train if it passes a a red light, according to Jager.
"He had all the green (light) signals," Jager said, adding that there wasn’t a possibility for two trains colliding.
Jager apologized on behalf of Metro to the riders affected, and said the occurance "very, very rarely happens."
Olson, who has been commuting from Studio City to the Mid-Wilshire area for four years to her accounting job for an airline, concurs with Jager’s statement, "this never happens, but I hope it doesn’t again."
--Francisco Vara-Orta
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Post by Gokhan on Sept 16, 2008 11:47:21 GMT -8
The Wilshire/Vermont wyes are so darn confusing that I'm not surprised for the mistake by the operator. The problem becomes worse when they single-track the system. At least, unlike Metrolink, the system is failsafe for accidents in such mishaps.
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Post by jejozwik on Sept 16, 2008 11:53:17 GMT -8
how much control do the subway operators have over this? my assumption is that they simply press go / stop or door open / close.
i thought the system took care of all the switching of the tracks
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Post by dane on Sept 16, 2008 12:31:38 GMT -8
I've always assumed that the system controls switching. If you are standing at the station exit tunnel end of the platform, you can watch the switch move into position a good 1-2 minutes before train arrival. Practically clockwork most of the time. How this happened is confusing to me.
Additionally, it is worrying how little attention the operator paid to the fact that his train diverted to the right instead of proceeding dead ahead, even going as far as to announce Wilshire/Normandie makes me shake my head. I would like to think that even as a passenger, the unusual right turn would have alerted my attention...
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Post by Justin Walker on Sept 16, 2008 14:27:29 GMT -8
A post I made elsewhere:
"That doesn't make any sense! At Wilshire/Vermont there is a signal that tells the operator which way the switch is aligned for the train.
Green- Switch is lined for the AR tunnel (i.e. Red Line up Vermont)
Yellow- Switch is lined for the BR tunnel (i.e. Purple Line down Wilshire)
Why an operator that knew he was operating a Purple Line train rolled through a Green signal is beyond me. He should have realized that if he continued without contacting the Rail Operations Center, he would end up as a Red Line train. Thankfully, this kind of situation has no risk of collisions."
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Post by jejozwik on Sept 18, 2008 8:40:11 GMT -8
ive noticed that the in-tunnel advertising screens have not been runing for the past week between H+H and universal. and for about 2 weeks earlier the screens were only running safety videos.
any one have any ideas?
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Post by jejozwik on Sept 24, 2008 8:16:57 GMT -8
ive noticed that the in-tunnel advertising screens have not been runing for the past week between H+H and universal. and for about 2 weeks earlier the screens were only running safety videos. any one have any ideas? ok its been another week and still no activity on the tunnel ads. ive noticed that the little white leds at the tops of the screens are no longer on as well. was this only a few months trial or did metro decide its not worth there time?
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Post by Jason Saunders on Sept 24, 2008 8:43:42 GMT -8
When the Blue Line opened there was a fiber optic public art piece along the tunnel section before 7th Metro. It was made by Thomas Eatherton. My understanding was that it did not last very long though the Metro site below says it lasted ten years. From the artist's site: from his site: percept.home.cyberverse.com/eatherton/index.html1991 UNITY: Permanent installation in Blue Line Subway Tunnel Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission. one person exhibition Metro: www.parkmetro.com/about_us/metroart/ma_mrbl7te.htmUnity, was located on the Blue Line tunnel walls between Metro Center and Pico Stations, and it was the first art work to be installed in the system. The eighty-two fiber-optic light paintings, which featured circular patterns of intense blue and white light, was intended as a symbol of the ever-changing experience of living in Los Angeles.
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Post by metrocenter on Sept 25, 2008 12:54:03 GMT -8
^Oh wow, I completely forgot about those!
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Post by jejozwik on Oct 2, 2008 9:04:18 GMT -8
as of this morning the tunnel vision screens were back up showing the target ad. wonder what happened...
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Post by Jason Saunders on Dec 10, 2008 18:47:33 GMT -8
I would rather have public art then be advertised to. While I understand the additional funding advertising revenue generates benefits Metros bottom line I sometimes grow tired of the insertion of corporate advertising into so many aspects of my life.
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