Gallery: Metro Orange Line Extension on opening day
June 30, 2012: Scenes from opening day of the Metro Orange Line Extension to Chatsworth. Click on images below to view. Photos by Gary Leonard
Orange Line festivities, free rides draw midday crowds
Metro and the West Valley communities are celebrating the opening of the Orange Line Extension today. Festivities continue to 4 p.m. and include food trucks, live music and community booths. [continue reading]
Ready to Roll: Metro Orange Line Extension to Chatsworth
Video of today’s event in Chatsworth by Mario Noriega. Here’s the news release: June 29, 2012 CONTACT: Dave Sotero/Marc Littman– Media Relations 213.922.3007/213.922.2700 Measure R Project Success: Officials Celebrate Completion of Metro Orange Line Extension to Chatsworth Ahead of Schedule, Under Budget The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), [continue reading]
Assembly approves bill that would allow Metro to seek Measure R extension
The bill, AB 1446 (by Assemblyman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles), still needs to be approved by the State Senate and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. And a majority of the Metro Board of Directors also need to approve sending the issue to Los Angeles County voters. The Metro Board is [continue reading]
Metro staff issues report on Measure R extension and recommends to Board adopting Measure R principles
As many of you know, there have been discussions underway to extend the Measure R half-cent sales tax past its expiration date of July 1, 2039, to accelerate transit and highway projects that are funded in part by Measure R. Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Antonio Villaraigosa proposed [continue reading]
Metro to hold budget workshop and public hearing on May 16
Proposed Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Here’s the news release from Metro — the most newsworthy item, I think, is that the $4.5-billion budget does not propose raising fares for the 2013 fiscal year: Metro will conduct a budget workshop and public hearing on a proposed $4.5 billion budget for Fiscal [continue reading]
Airtalk with Larry Mantle discusses Westside Subway Extension’s Century City station
The KPCC show this morning is well worth a listen and is timely: the Metro Board of Directors tomorrow is scheduled to consider the Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report for the project. Guests include Beverly Hills Councilman Barry Brucker and County Supervisor and Metro Board Member Zev Yaroslavsky, who explains why [continue reading]
Gold Line Construction Authority green-lights full construction activities on Foothill Extension
The latest news from the Gold Line Construction Authority is that the authority has issued a “full notice to proceed” to contractor Kiewit Parsons Joint Venture, thus keeping the line on track for completing construction in the second half of 2015 and then handing the project over to Metro, which [continue reading]
Travel times to Westwood/UCLA using the Westside Subway Extension
If anyone really needs a good argument why the Westside Subway Extension should be built, I think this map showing transit travel times to the Westwood/UCLA station from other parts of L.A. County makes a pretty compelling case. The nine-mile subway extension to Westwood would seriously improve the time [continue reading]
Transit advocacy group discusses Measure R extension
The activist group Move LA held its “L.A. on the Verge’ event at Union Station on Friday, with a big focus on transportation funding. The group is headed by former Santa Monica Mayor Denny Zane, who clearly let the hundreds in attendance know his position: the Measure R sales tax [continue reading]