Here’s the news release from Metro: Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Antonio Villaraigosa joined Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metro Board member Mark Ridley-Thomas today to announce the beginning of the advanced utility relocation work for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor construction project which is the first contract awarded [continue reading]
Several readers have asked whether recent state bills could potentially expedite litigation against Metro or other transit agencies. Here’s the good word from Assemblyman Mike Feuer’s office: •SB 92, signed into law last year, expedited challenges under California environmental law for only the AEG stadium project. •AB 900, also signed [continue reading]
The target opening date is now November of this year for the 110 freeway part of the project. The news release from Metro is below and here is the ExpressLanes home page. Construction work on the Harbor Freeway Transitway portion of the ExpressLanes project is nearing completion with Metro [continue reading]
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD: There’s a good exhibit at the Huntington Library though July 23 on the planning and construction of the 1,776-mile railroad between Sacramento and Council Bluffs, Nebraska. To be more specific, that’s 1,776 miles of rail built between 1863 and 1869. To put that in perspective, it took about [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metro: The Metro Orange Line Extension — a four-mile addition to the wildly popular Orange Line busway — will open to the public on Saturday, June 30 with community celebrations and free rides on the extension from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Orange Line [continue reading]
One of the allegations that has been floating around for months is that the Westside Subway Extension’s station in Century City was moved from Santa Monica Boulevard to Constellation Boulevard by Metro at the request of a politically-connected developer. It’s an assertion that is not true. The Constellation site was [continue reading]
The following statement was issued this afternoon: LOS ANGELES – May 25, 2012 – Metro and Thomas Properties Group continue to work closely to address Thomas Properties Group’s concerns with the construction method currently approved for the Regional Connector proposed to run beneath Flower Street in front of the company’s [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_3vLM5KZEA[/youtube] Fun video by ExpoLineFan posted to YouTube this morning showing a flyover of the future Westside Subway Extension using Google Maps and animation. Two cautionary notes: the alignment shown in the video is only a general description and is not completely accurate, particularly in the western Beverly Hills to [continue reading]
Reconstruction of the 405/Wilshire Boulevard on- and off ramps will begin June 22 and it’s sure to make a mess of traffic. But Metro is reaching out to commuters who live in the area or commute there, suggesting options to help them leave their cars at home and avoid traffic caused [continue reading]
At the tail end of its meeting this morning, the Metro Board approved the staff plan on locking gates at rail stations and converting ticket machines completely to TAP. In other words, the ticket machines will no longer issue paper tickets with the conversion set to begin in a few [continue reading]
