Entries from LAist tagged with 'delays'
November 5, 2008
Catenary wires that came down for unknown reasons on Tuesday afternoon will cause delays on the Metro Green Line this morning. Due to a single track operation, trains will operate every fifteen to twenty minutes as crews repair the overhead wires near the Imperial Station where railway intersects the Blue Line. "Crowded conditions will exist until repairs are completed," warned Metro.......
Continue Reading "Downed Wires Cause Green Line Delays"September 30, 2008
Photo by ZigZagLens via LAist Feautred Photos on Flickr A malfunctioning transformer caused a small grass fire and some power outages at LAX late this morning. The outage is affecting three international flights on the remote West end of the airport as DWP workers move to restore power to the area. The planes, each are carrying over 200 passengers to Tokyo, Santiago and Shanghai, cannot leave their gates because the attached pedestrian walkways need......
Continue Reading "Blown Transfomer Causes Power Outage & Delays at LAX"August 26, 2008
Flights taking off from airports across the country were delayed after a communications breakdown occurred with the Federal Aviation Administration's processing data for flight-plans at two separate facilities near Atlanta, Georgia and in Salt Lake City, Utah. As for LAX, the FAA reported little to no impact to flights departing West of Chicago and Dallas, according to Treva Miller, an LAX Spokesperson. "As of 2:38 p.m. PST, LAX was not experiencing any flight arrival or......
Continue Reading "Flights Delayed Nationally, LAX Hardly Affected"July 29, 2008
Service on Metrolink rail lines across SoCal will have interruptions and delays today while all tracks undergo mandatory post-earthquake inspection. Trains on the Inland Empire, Ventura County, Orange County, and 91 lines will not run until the inspections are completed. According to a live report on KTLA, Metrolink service in general has not been canceled, but is "running significantly slower." All other lines within a 50 mile-radius of the Chino Hills epicenter will run "at......
Continue Reading "Expect Metrolink Delays Due to Mandatory Post-Quake Inspections"August 12, 2007
When the port director for customs at LAX calls it bad, and he's been around since the '70s you know it's bad. "This is probably one of the worst days we've had. I've been with the agency for 30 years and I've never seen the system go down and stay down for as long as it did," Peter Gordon told the LA Times about the computer meltdown that stranded 20,000 travelers yesterday and early......
Continue Reading "LAX Computer Glitch Strands 20,000 for 14 Hours"December 22, 2006
Bundle up folks. This isn't a line to get into LAX; this is a line to get through TSA security at LAX's United Terminal. Once you get inside, you go back out to go back in. With yesterday's delays, you may be thinking this picture was taken then. No, it was taken last Saturday afternoon. We can't even imagine what it will be like today and in the coming days.......
Continue Reading "LAX Line for Security: Go Wait Outside"