From online mag Yanko Design comes a wacked out concept in pedestrian safety:
The Virtual Wall provides a barrier made up of plasma laser beams depicting pedestrians doing what they do best and any car that crosses that barrier suffers the consequences. Okay so maybe those lasers aren't powerful enough to do any harm but the effect is enough to make drivers and pedestrians alike follow crosswalk rules to the tee.
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Editor Joe Linton predicts 2025 will see: Metro ridership growth, Destination Crenshaw, Rail2Rail path, new bus lanes, new rail lines, transit groundbreakings, and the first Measure HLA lawsuit
Automated bus lane enforcement improves bus speeds and increases ridership. Metro had announced its automated ticketing program would start citations on January 1, then pushed the start date to February 17.
Streetsblog got a special preview ride today. Have you ridden Metro's new "HR4000" heavy rail cars yet?
