Due to ongoing rains, night-time construction activity, including full freeway segment closures scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled. Surface conditions will be too wet for restriping work. The contractor will likely proceed with work on the evening of Monday, January 25 from the I-10 Freeway to Santa Monica Blvd. [continue reading]
Budget news has been bad at all level of government for months and Metro doesn’t appear to be any exception. A report released by agency officials and discussed publicly on Wednesday at a Metro Board of Directors budget committee meeting spelled out the problem: in the fiscal year 2010-11, which [continue reading]
I had the chance to listen to a conference call on Wednesday that was organized by the American Public Transportation Assn. (APTA), a Washington D.C.-based group that promotes – as the name implies – mass transit. The group has also set up a website on high-speed rail efforts. The purpose [continue reading]
The rain today has again postponed construction work Thursday night on the northbound 405 carpool lane being constructed between the Santa Monica and Ventura freeways. Work is scheduled to resume Friday night and Metro officials have said that the contractor will be working on weekend nights to make up for [continue reading]
This item led Metro CEO’s daily email memo to agency staffers on Wednesday: Today, I wrote to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood to encourage him to hold a public listening session at our headquarters on the New Starts reforms he announced last week. On January 13, 2010 the U.S. [continue reading]
The rain keeps falling and as a result construction work on adding a carpool lane to the northbound 405 over the Sepulveda Pass has been postponed for both Wednesday and Thursday nights. On a related note, there’s an open house being held this afternoon about the project at the Westwood [continue reading]
A new report that updates the planning progress on the Westside Subway Extension is being presented to the Metro Board of Directors this month. Work on the draft environmental impact report is now 60% complete, according to the report. Other news in the report: *The subway planning team at Metro [continue reading]
Enjoying the rain? Look at the bright side: construction work on the northbound 405 carpool lane project has been postponed for Tuesday night due to the inclement weather. Construction updates are available on the project’s page on the Metro website and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/I_405. I’m writing this post at [continue reading]
Metrolink posted this on their website at 2:15 this afternoon. If you’re headed over to Union Station, there could be short delays and it’s also wise to check which track your train is leaving from — a few trains were shifted earlier. Update as of 2:15 pm A test train [continue reading]
The latest from Metrolink — all but two tracks are going to reopen and officials may be able to open the two tracks by the afternoon rush hour: After an evaluation of the damage to the Cesar Chavez Avenue underpass, Metrolink and City of Los Angeles engineers have determined that [continue reading]
