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]
America Fast Forward – Embedded in Surface Transportation Bill – Heads to White House for President’s Signature
Metro CEO Art Leahy has just issued this legislative alert: America Fast Forward – Embedded in Surface Transportation Bill – Heads to White House for President’s Signature America Fast Forward, the innovative national transportation finance plan championed by our Board Chairman and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and our Board [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]
Metro Board of Directors meeting is underway
Good morning, this is your government speaking. The gavel just dropped on today’s meeting of the Metro Board of Directors. Here is the agenda. You can listen to the meeting over the phone at 213-922-6045. With little else in the news today — the Ann Curry story is now two [continue reading]
Congress may finally have a new multi-year transportation spending bill
The story has been developing throughout the day — it seems the Senate and House have struck a deal to pass the first multi-year bill since 2005. That bill had expired in 2009 and been given a number of short-term extensions while Congress bickered over the new bill. It’s never [continue reading]
On Transportation column: June 27 edition
Measure R Extension: The big-ticket item at Thursday’s Board of Directors meeting is a scheduled vote on whether the Board wants to ask voters to extend the half-cent sales tax beyond its mid-2039 expiration date. Metro staff is proposing to extend the tax as a way to possibly accelerate all [continue reading]
State bill to allow vote on Measure R extension clears Senate transportation committee
The vote on AB-1446 (by Assemblyman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles) was yesterday afternoon. The state bill is needed in order to put a Measure R extension on a ballot before county voters. On a related note, the Metro Board of Directors is scheduled to vote on whether to take the [continue reading]
U.S. House Appropriations Committee adopts fiscal year 2013 transportation spending bill
More less-than-great news from Washington, although this is just a step in the long process of getting some type of annual bill approved Here’s the update from Metro’s government relations staff: Moments ago, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee adopted the Fiscal Year 2013 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development [continue reading]
Staff recommends signal priority for Venice Boulevard and 733 Rapid Bus
I thought riders of the 733 Rapid Bus that primarily uses Venice Boulevard during its long journey from downtown Santa Monica to Venice Beach to Los Angeles Union Station would be interested in the following staff report. The gist of it: staff is recommending spending $7 million to install traffic [continue reading]