A new map details Pacific Electric’s sprawling "Red Car" rail network as it appeared in 1926, harkening back to the days when LA was home to one of the largest mass transit systems in the world.

He and other amateur cartographers are re-imagining public transportation in Los Angeles by crafting ambitious conceptual maps that depict the county blanketed with an East Coast-style rail network.

The Travel and Hotel Bureau of Los Angeles printed this map for visitors in 1906. At this time, a tourist would have been able to see much of downtown L.A. by rail.

Apple has added public transit information for Los Angeles to its Apple Maps app. The transit feature is now live, mapping bus and Metro routes for iPhone users as well as showing scheduled ...

The congestion data cited in “Commuters Spend More Time in Traffic” (U.S. News, Aug. 23) is similar to that used by mass-transit supporters to promote spending on mass-transportation ...

The Los Angeles public transportation system is easily derided as useless and underused, an afterthought in a city dominated by cars. But the county's long range transportation plan includes ways ...

CBS News Los Angeles Live. In efforts to make Metro safer for riders and operators, the transit system rolled out new weapons detection technology that it is testing at two stations in hopes of ...

A map shows the route of the Inglewood Transit Connector – the planned "automated people mover" train system which will run on elevated tracks through Inglewood in Los Angeles County.