Work on the demolition of the old railroad bridge and the bridge abutments remains ahead of schedule. The intersection of Aviation and Century boulevards is on track to reopen at 2 a.m. Monday, four hours ahead of the original schedule. Traffic congestion on the roads around Los Angeles International Airport was either [continue reading]
Over 111,000 passengers expected to arrive/depart from LAX tonight, please continue to use the detours and plan ahead pic.twitter.com/CT9YxslKaQ — Crenshaw/LAX Rail (@crenshawrail) July 27, 2014 With many travelers returning to Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday afternoon — as is typical — there has been some traffic congestion on [continue reading]
The CenturyCrush is proceeding nicely. Most of the mid span has been taken down. Hopefully they're ahead of schedule pic.twitter.com/zRFQw9474t — Kevin Takumi (@KevinTakumi) July 26, 2014 Good morning! Demolition work overnight went according to plan and traffic to and from the airport is flowing well. The intersection of Aviation [continue reading]
Traffic in/around LAX running smoothly. Big thnx to people using public transit. Pls keep it up! #CenturyCrunch — LAX Airport (@flyLAXairport) July 26, 2014 Report from LAX and #CenturyCrunch: tumbleweeds, at least leaving airport — Adam Nagourney (@adamnagourney) July 26, 2014 At LAX, departing travelers still saying they had minimal [continue reading]
Milestone in Century Bridge demo reached as bridge safely collapses. Work continues. Plan for traffic. #CenturyCrunch pic.twitter.com/I6SaP1RNGP — LAX Airport (@flyLAXairport) July 26, 2014 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93SSoeppznI&feature=youtu.be] All is going well. As the tweet from LAX shows, the old railroad bridge over Century Boulevard has safely been collapsed as work continues this [continue reading]
Road closures were staggered throughout the evening and the intersection of Aviation and Century is now closed. The video below shows equipment being moved into place that will be used to demolish the old railroad bridge in order to make way for the Aviation/Century Station for the Crenshaw/LAX Line. Please [continue reading]
It was pretty quiet near the intersection of Century and Aviation boulevards earlier this evening as workers prepared to tear down the old railroad bridge to clear the way for the Crenshaw/LAX Line’s new station. The above photo provides a pretty good view of the scope of the work that [continue reading]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6B4AJD4qJI&feature=youtu.be] Three Metro Board Members and other elected officials, activists and business leaders held a media event on Friday morning at the NoHo Orange Line station to discuss the Board’s passage Thursday of a motion calling for feasibility studies of improving the Orange Line and potentially connecting it to Burbank, [continue reading]
Other actions taken by the Metro Board at their meeting today: •The Board approved a motion by Board Members Paul Krekorian, Eric Garcetti, Michael Antonovich, Zev Yaroslavsky, John Fasana and Ara Najarian directing Metro staff to study potential upgrades to the Orange Line, including adding more articulated buses, grade-separated crossings, improved [continue reading]
[scribd id=234912465 key=key-507FhcGnE9x0YOvlJMuv mode=scroll] The Metro Board earlier today approved a lease agreement with Cafe Crepe to take over the former Union Bagel space in Union Station (the Metro staff report is above). This is the space directly across from Traxx that has been vacant for quite some time. This is not [continue reading]
