County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who is also a member of the Board of Directors of Metro, has a long post on his blog on the 20th anniversary of Metro Rail. His point, in short: “that the more you build the system, the more of a system you build.” Excerpt: Those [continue reading]
Metro officials gathered Friday morning near a Blue Line station in downtown Los Angeles to commemorate the recent 20th anniversary of Metro Rail. The Blue Line began service on July 14, 1990 — in the 27 years previous, there was only bus service available in Los Angeles County. It was [continue reading]
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]
Following pre-demolition work that began last May, the contractor for the northbound I-405 Sepulveda Pass carpool lane project is now scheduled to demolish one-half of Sunset Boulevard Bridge in West Los Angeles in six consecutive nights beginning Friday, July 23. Demolition work and associated closures will be conducted during night-time [continue reading]
Quick reminder: there’s one week left for the public to submit comments on the draft environmental impact report for the Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit project. The project proposes to install about 9.5 miles of rush hour bus lanes on Wilshire Boulevard within the city of Los Angeles, which Metro officials [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]
