[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqC21Hrcu1g&w=584&h=329] There was a nice event held Friday morning for the 10th anniversary of Gold Line service between Los Angeles Union Station and Pasadena. The event was organized by the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the agency that is overseeing construction of the 11.5-mile addition to the Gold Line [continue reading]
Metro EPW Testimony 072413 Metro CEO Art Leahy today testified in Washington D.C. in front of the U.S. Senate’s Environment & Public Works Committee; his testimony is above. The topic was an important one for the agency: the expanded TIFIA loan program approved by Congress in last year’s multi-year transportation [continue reading]
This update from Metro's government relations staff neatly summarizes the current state of Congress: U.S. Senate Votes to Clear Way for Consideration of Transportation Spending Bill Today, the U.S. Senate voted, by a margin of 73 to 26, to invoke cloture on S. 1243, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development [continue reading]
ExpressLanes Performance Update-Prelim Report, July 2013 The Metro ExpressLanes pilot project publicly released its second performance report Monday morning, offering a statistical look at how the project is faring on the 10 and 110 freeways. This is a follow-up to the first report, released in March. I’ll offer the same [continue reading]
Long Beach Transit Mall station renaming report Nothing earth-shaking here folks, but I know that station renaming is always of moderate to high interest to Source readers. Above is the staff report on the proposal to rename the Blue Line’s Transit Mall station “Downtown Long Beach,” a move that Metro [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]
If you want to have your say in the renaming of the Blue Line Transit Mall Station to the Downtown Long Beach Station, attend the service council meeting this Thursday or write in to servicecouncils@metro.net. Here’s the press release from Metro with more information: The Metro Gateway Cities Service Council [continue reading]
As some readers may recall, the Federal Transit Administration in Dec. 2011 found that Metro did not fully follow federal regulations and guidance about the process the agency used to make service changes. At the time, Metro released a compliance plan to correct the problems. And today the FTA found [continue reading]
