The Board of Directors of Metro met Thursday for their regular monthly session (here’s a link to the agenda). It was also the first meeting run by the new chairman of the Board of Directors, Supervisor Don Knabe. Here are a few highlights of issues they tackled that I thought [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=3481728] Consider this our daily nag to take our latest poll on issues facing the Westside Subway Extension. As of 3:15, we’re at 1,409 votes and readers prefer a station at Constellation and Avenue of the Stars. Need more info? Here’s Monday’s post looking at the issues. At this [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=3481728] One day into our latest subway poll, Constellation is leading by almost 60 percentage points. If you haven’t voted, please do so. And here’s a link to yesterday’s post with more background on the issue.
The National Journal website posted a good question today: is the 30/10 Initiative a good idea? It’s worth a read. Three proponents of the plan have responded thus far, pointing out the benefits of using federal loans and financing to build a dozen Measure R mass transit projects now — [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=3481728] This is the second in a series of posts asking readers for their opinions on how best to build the Westside Subway Extension. Last week, we asked if readers thought a station should be built at Wilshire & Crenshaw, with the tally indicating that 60% of readers thought [continue reading]
We asked readers a week ago what they thought about the prospect of a station at Crenshaw & Wishire on the Westside Subway Extension and above is the response we received as of 10:20 Monday morning. More than 30 comments were left on the Polldaddy page and they cover the [continue reading]
Some good news to close the week: Metro’s rail ridership in June was up significantly over June 2009 — 326,663 average weekday boardings versus 303,712, an increase of 7.5 percent. The Gold Line did well, with 37,270 average weekday boardings in June 2010 compared to 24,219 in June 2009. Much [continue reading]
[polldaddy poll=3450510] This is proving to be our most popular poll yet, with 1,181 votes as of the noon hour. And there’s been a big swing in the results since yesterday, with the ‘no’ votes pulling way of ahead of the ‘yes’ votes. Interesting! If you feel the need to [continue reading]
We’ve spent plenty of time looking back, with this past Wednesday being the 20th anniversary of the Blue Line and the birth of Metro Rail. I wanted to look forward today and provide a quick update where future Metro Rail projects were in the pipeline. The list below is of [continue reading]
Here’s an event to be held tomorrow about transportation funding that I thought some of you may be interested in: SUPERVISOR RIDLEY-THOMAS, POLICYLINK TO HOST FORUM SOLICITING PUBLIC INPUT ON SECURING FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION FUNDS FOR LOCAL PROJECTS ‘New Ideas for New Starts: Equity Considerations and Federal Transit Funding’ LOS ANGELES [continue reading]
