The City of Westlake Village is about to begin construction on the Lindero Canyon/101 Freeway bridge project. The highway operations improvement project is funded by Measure R. Here’s the full press release from the City of Westlake Village with more details: The City of Westlake Village is about to begin [continue reading]
Today Metro released its review of a Beverly Hills Unified School District consultant memo that challenged the agency’s geotechnical rationale for choosing the Constellation site for the Purple Line Extension ‘s Century City station. The review, sent to Metro’s Board of Directors today, essentially says that nothing in the consultant memo changes the agency’s recommendations. [continue reading]
The Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project team today released the latest project map of the 8.5-mile rail line, which includes official names of the eight new stations: Expo/Crenshaw, Crenshaw/Martin Luther King, Crenshaw/Vernon (Leimert Park), Crenshaw/Slauson, Florence/West, Florence/La Brea, Florence/Hindry and Aviation/Century. The Crenshaw/LAX line will serve the Crenshaw Corridor, Inglewood, Westchester [continue reading]
Here’s the press release from Metro: The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and Caltrans is holding a series of four public meetings to provide information and seek comment on a proposed new transportation corridor linking Palmdale and Victorville. The project, called High Desert Corridor (HDC), is a 63-mile-long [continue reading]
As you may have heard, there’s a runoff Tuesday in Los Angeles to elect the next mayor of the second-largest city in the nation — a city with about 3.8 million inhabitants and some well-known transportation challenges. I ran the following post on March 4, the day before the primary election in [continue reading]
Photo by Luis Inzunza/Metro This morning, the City of Agoura Hills and Metro broke ground on the Canwood Street Improvements Project. The project, scheduled to begin on April 29, will receive full funding of $1.1 million for construction from Measure R. “We are deeply appreciative of Metro’s support for this [continue reading]
If you have three minutes to spare, I highly recommend Damien Newton's post in response to an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times griping about Westside traffic. In the Times, editorial writer Carla Hall complained that Los Angeles City Council candidates for the Westside seat (11th district) didn't say [continue reading]
With major projects coming online such as the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor, the Regional Connector and the Westside Subway Extension, plus some 25 highway projects in construction phases, prime contractors and small business owners lost no time in making preparations for contracting opportunities at a unique mixer Wednesday. Twenty-five prime contractors [continue reading]
Metro last year scored a win when Congress adopted part of the America Fast Forward initiative, expanding a federal loan program called TIFIA that offers low-interest, government backed loans. Metro is now pushing Congress to adopt the other half of AFF, a bond program designed to raise money to accelerate [continue reading]
“This day is here…” On January 29, 1993, former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley stood among a swarm of public officials and transit agency staffers on the cramped Pershing Square subway platform. Standing shoulders above everyone else, including then-California Gov. Pete Wilson, Bradley proudly inaugurated the opening of the first [continue reading]
