View Subway planning in a larger map The team of Metro staffers that are planning the Westside Subway Extension are holding a meeting on March 17 to discuss a significant issue: should the subway have a station at Wilshire and Crenshaw boulevards? Stations cost about $200 million to build and [continue reading]
In recent years, urban planners have been making a big push to locate new residential buildings as close to transit as possible. It’s certainly started to happen in Los Angeles County, with apartments and condos sprouting near rail lines in Hollywood, North Hollywood, Koreatown, Pasadena and downtown Los Angeles, to [continue reading]
There has been a lot of talk in political circles about the economic and employment benefits of the federal stimulus bill (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) signed into law in Feb. 2009. Fair enough. But in terms of hardware, Metro benefited from the bill when the first of 50 [continue reading]
We posted last Friday about a town hall meeting at Metro with Sen. Barbara Boxer and U.S. Transportation Ray LaHood. They came to Los Angeles, in part, to hear what locals wanted in the next federal transportation spending bill. President George W. Bush signed the last federal transportation bill into [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors met this morning at agency headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. The agenda was on the light side compared with recent months, but some decisions were made on a few key items: •In response to a motion by County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Los Angeles Mayor [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors have their monthly meeting at Metro headquarters in downtown Thursday at 9:30 a.m. I’ll be there to cover the meeting and here’s quick look at the agenda and some of the decisions the Board is scheduled to make: Item 5 expands the draft environmental impact [continue reading]
Last Friday was a busy one at One Gateway, Metro’s headquarters in Los Angeles. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Sen. Barbara Boxer were here for a town hall meeting and Metro also hosted its first bicycle roundtable, which I missed. The idea, in essence, was for Metro to listen [continue reading]
The conversion of carpool lanes to toll lanes on parts of the 10 and 110 freeways could be pushed back 19 months — to 2012 — under a plan to be considered by the Metro Board of Directors at their meeting on Thursday. It’s item No. 47 on the meeting [continue reading]
The turmoil known as the California state budget process is moving through the Legislature and below is the latest update from Metro’s government relations team. The essence of the problem in one sentence: transit agencies are worried that the state is trying to back away from transit funding in both [continue reading]
The town hall meeting at Metro headquarters with Sen. Barbara Boxer and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wrapped up a little while ago. The topic: what should be in the massive federal transportation bill that Congress will soon begin debating. The 90-minute meeting featured short introductory remarks from Boxer and [continue reading]
