It’s kind of an obvious statement: rail and busway stations are the gateway for the tens of thousands of passengers entering the Metro system each day. And since most people have to spend at least a few of minutes at stations, the quality of time spent there is crucial to [continue reading]
Here is the agenda for the regular monthly meeting of the Metro Board of Directors on Thursday at Metro headquarters adjacent to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. (The html version of agenda is here). The big item for this Thursday is the consideration by the Board of the Regional [continue reading]
This update from Metro’s government relations staff doesn’t make it sound as if a bill will be burping out of the Senate anytime soon: U.S. Senate Holds Procedural Vote on Surface Transportation Bill Earlier today, the U.S. Senate failed to invoke cloture (54-42) on an amendment offered by Majority Leader [continue reading]
Move L.A. is a transit advocacy group that made a big push for Measure R in 2008 and has continued to push for more transit — and more transit funding — in Los Angeles County. The group’s fourth annual transit discussion next Friday promises to be an interesting one with [continue reading]
81 MILLION REASONS TO BE HAPPY: All things considered, I thought it was pretty amazing that President Obama’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year included $31 million in federal funds for the Regional Connector and $50 million for the Westside Subway Extension. Both, of course, are excellent and needed [continue reading]
Here’s the letter that California’s Democratic House members sent today: 2.10.12 Transportation Bill HR 7
We’ve been tracking the progress of the latest multi-year transportation spending bill in Congress — a bill that includes funding for Metro and the nation’s other transit agencies. The Obama Administration on Thursday backed the Senate version of the bill co-authored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California). As we’ve been reporting, [continue reading]
The Metro Regional Connector team held an open house last night in Little Tokyo to discuss the crucial Measure R project now that it has reached an important milestone: the release of its Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report (which you can find in its entirety here). As regular readers will recall, [continue reading]
Having read a lot of the press and comment boards concerning the report by Beverly Hills’ consultants on tunneling safety for the Westside Subway Extension, I encourage those interested to actually read the report itself. Some of the discussion is technical in nature, but I think everyone should make their [continue reading]
Here are a pair of legislative alerts posted Monday. From Metro’s government relations staff: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Poised to Act on Surface Transportation Bill Tomorrow, the U.S. Senate’s Finance Committee, under the leadership of Max Baucus (D-MT), is slated to consider the Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth [continue reading]
