Gov. Rick Scott said on Wednesday that he’s turning down $2 billion in federal funding for a high-speed rail project between Tampa and Orlando because he didn’t feel it was a sound investment of taxpayer money. Here’s the story from the St. Petersburg Times. It doesn’t sound like the news [continue reading]
As many of you know, the location of the eventual Century City station is one of the key remaining questions for the Westside Subway Extension. When the Metro Board adopted a route last fall – the “Locally Preferred Alternative” — they authorized Metro staff to continue studying two options. One [continue reading]
photo by Tiago Alves Miranda, via his Flickr photostream Our “art of transit” returns to Portugal with this nice photo above of the Lison Metro. Tiago has more images of the Metro at his photostream — check them out. He took the photo with a Panasonic DMC-FZ8, a point-and-shoot camera. [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 blog. Metro Continues to Expand TAP Program. Complaints Still Common (Streetsblog LA) Inspired by continuing complaints and news coverage about Metro’s smart card [continue reading]
President Barack Obama on Monday released his 2012 budget, which included his priorities for transportation spending. One area of particular concern for Metro is New Starts funding — the program run by the Federal Transit Administration to help local areas pay for big, pricey transit projects. The good news is [continue reading]
Sure, riding Metro saves you from the stress of traffic, reduces your environmental impact and lowers your monthly transportation costs – but did you know it also entitles you to a bunch of great deals around L.A.? That’s what Destination Discounts is all about – and The Source is here [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source in which we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. And when it comes [continue reading]
Over the next two months, contractors will be doing some exploratory drilling to collect soil samples as a part of the preliminary engineering for the Crenshaw/LAX Line. Soil samples are needed to assess subsurface conditions in order to design trackway, station structure and tunnels for the project. This work schedule [continue reading]
The news release is below: The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is currently conducting a Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report (EIS/EIR) for the Westside Subway Extension and will host three Station Area Advisory Meetings to provide community input to Metro subway planners on potential urban design and other features [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 blog. Cyclists shouldn’t ‘share the road,’ they should have their own (Grist) A study of bicycle infrastructure in Montreal found that cyclists are [continue reading]
