Notice to proceed issued for section 2 of Purple Line Extension!
This is a bit on the procedural side but still a nice little milestone: Metro on Wednesday issued a “notice to proceed” to Tutor Perini/O & G to begin work building [continue reading]
Business Interruption Fund Spotlight: Cutey Pie Café
Photos by Gary Leonard/Metro. Cutey Pie Café is located along the 2nd/Broadway segment of the Regional Connector. The small “buffeteria” is in the basement of the Broadway Civic Center Building [continue reading]
Metro releases RFP to study Sepulveda Pass transit options
In a significant initial step to bring a transit line through L.A.’s notoriously congested Sepulveda Pass, Metro on Wednesday issued a Request for Proposals to study the feasibility of various [continue reading]
Agenda for Thursday’s Metro Board meeting; biomethane, rail in eastern DTLA, bike paths are on the docket
[scribd id=346355223 key=key-cNzfHX2acacysfk3dw75 mode=scroll] UPDATE: Below is an embed of the recap of the meeting (pdf here) with several items pushed to next month’s agenda. [scribd id=347078149 key=key-CSWXgeJoWrNUobZY07T6 mode=scroll] A [continue reading]
Metro proposes discontinuing Orange Line to Warner Center and replacing with shuttle with more stops
A public hearing will be held Wednesday, May 3, for a proposed change to the Orange Line: discontinuing running direct Orange Line service to Warner Center and replacing it with a [continue reading]
Crenshaw/LAX Line’s tunnel boring machine officially retired (and other pics from project!)
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today celebrated the end of tunnel excavation for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project. Harriet, the tunnel boring machine (TBM), completed digging the second [continue reading]
Which route should the West Santa Ana Branch project take into DTLA?
One of the big transit challenges involving downtown L.A. is this: it’s big. Really big. Our downtown more or less runs from the 10 to the 101 and [continue reading]
Bones belonging to ancient camel and mammoth or mastodon — found during work on Purple Line Extension
Metro Purple Line Extension workers excavating the future subway station at Wilshire and La Brea Avenue in L.A.’s Miracle Mile District have unearthed the station’s second Ice Age fossils: a [continue reading]
Fresh map: the many projects near and dear to Union Station
There is a lot happening in the above map, which is new and covers the many projects happening at Union Station or in the nearby neighborhood. Here are brief descriptions [continue reading]
Fresh renderings: transit station that will serve LAX and new people mover
[scribd id=345401753 key=key-5NtcgnyTqxhPhrpHnH73 mode=scroll] (pdf for printing and download here) Nice presentation above on the Airport Metro Connector project, a new transit station that will be located at Aviation Boulevard [continue reading]