This morning, Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Member Antonio Villaraigosa, Santa Monica Mayor and Metro Board Member Pam O’Connor, City Coucil Member Jose Huizar and Metro CEO Art Leahy joined other Metro officials and downtown business leaders to announce the start of utility relocation work to prepare for construction of the Regional Connector. [continue reading]
The Board met in closed session earlier this morning and the public portion of the meeting kicked off a few minutes ago. Here’s the agenda. It will likely be a long meeting. Those who want to listen in — sorry, there’s no webstream — can do so by phoning 213-922-6045. [continue reading]
Each weekday, there are about 1.5 million boardings on Metro buses and trains across Los Angeles County. It takes a lot of energy to move all those people; fuel is needed for buses while electricity powers trains and Metro’s many facilities across Los Angeles County. In the past few years, [continue reading]
A 584-foot bridge over the eastbound lanes of the 210 freeway — the first major piece of infrastructure for the Gold Line Foothill Extension — is now complete, on time and on budget. The media had their chance to see the bridge this morning and a public ceremony will be [continue reading]
Metro December 2012 agenda. Here’s the agenda for the final Metro Board of Directors’ meeting of 2012. The public portion of the meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday at Metro HQ adjacent to Union Station. Members of the public, as always, are welcome to attend; the meeting is in [continue reading]
TIFIA letter of interest Perhaps the most notable part of the last federal transportation bill was a significant expansion of a federal loan program called TIFIA. In essence, the program uses the federal government’s credit to provide favorable loans for transportation projects in the United States. If Measure J had [continue reading]
Here’s the latest construction notice for the second phase of the Expo Line, a Measure R-funded project. Below is a photo taken by Expo Line Fan of a support structure under construction that will carry the Expo Line tracks over Sepulveda Boulevard. Expo Line Fan has a ton of construction [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. Happy property tax day, Source readers! The cracks in the nation’s foundation (N.Y. Times) [continue reading]
LaHood defends California high-speed rail plan (The Hill) U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood spent Thursday trying to persuade House Republicans to appropriate money for California’s bullet train plan. Republicans say the train is too expensive and won’t attract private investors; LaHood says it certainly won’t get private dollars if no government [continue reading]
Cool photo e-mailed around this afternoon from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Authority, the agency building the Pasadena-to-Azusa addition to the Gold Line. The photo was taken underneath the new bridge in Arcadia that will carry Gold Line tracks from the median of the 210 freeway toward downtown Arcadia. Here’s [continue reading]
