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Design and Architecture

Pitch your transit ideas to Metro’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation

You don’t have to be Elon Musk to pitch an idea for improving mobility in Los Angeles. Say you have an innovative idea for helping Angelenos get around the region. Who do you talk to?

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By Frances Anderton • Jan 9, 2018 • 1 min read

You don’t have to be Elon Musk to pitch an idea for improving mobility in Los Angeles. Say you have an innovative idea for helping Angelenos get around the region. Who do you talk to?

He explains some of the 90 unsolicited proposals so far received, including drones that would inspect facilities and track; better provision of parking for bikes at stations and an Uber-style partnership for taking people to and from stations.

An Orange Line Metro bus. Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro.

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    Frances Anderton

    architecture critic and author

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    Frances Anderton

    architecture critic and author

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    Avishay Artsy

    Producer, DnA: Design and Architecture

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    Joshua Schank

    Chief Innovation Officer at Metro

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