[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPxeKu5otZc[/youtube] Last month students from the Braille Institute’s Los Angeles Center spent the morning with Metro for a special event called “Getting Around Town with Metro” as part of Braille’s Solutions in Sight public education campaign. A group of thirty visually impaired students had the chance to ride [continue reading]
Metro Bus service will be detoured tomorrow, Tuesday, April 13, in downtown Los Angeles due to the funeral service of Los Angeles Police Department Officer and Marine Sergeant Major Robert Cottle, to be held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. LAPD SWAT officer Cottle was killed while [continue reading]
Beginning Tuesday, April 13, the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project contractor plans to conduct underground utility work at the intersection of Church Lane and Sepulveda Boulevard for approximately one week. This activity will require the temporary reconfiguration of traffic into one lane in each direction. Here’s the construction notice info: [continue reading]
The Westside Subway Extension team is holding another round of public meetings beginning tonight to update the community on the draft environmental impact report being prepared for the line. Tonight’s meeting begins at 6 p.m. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; click here for the schedule for all [continue reading]
A safety upgrade to the Gold Line Eastside Extension was completed last week when the final segment of fencing was installed along the tracks. The fencing, along the street-running portions of the line, is designed to discourage jaywalkers from crossing the tracks outside of designated crosswalks. There is similar fencing [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Don’t forget you can also follow the Metro Library on Facebook and Twitter. High-speed rail line business plan questioned again (San Francisco Chronicle) The newspaper [continue reading]
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa first proposed his 30/10 initiative last fall, proposing to build 12 mass transit projects to be heavily funded by the Measure R sales tax in the next 10 years instead of the next 30. The gist of the mayor’s plan is to secure federal hope [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Don’t forget you can also follow the Metro Library on Facebook and Twitter. High-speed rail officials will consider sharing tracks (L.A. Times) The California High-Speed [continue reading]
As expected, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s 30/10 initiative to build a dozen Measure R transit projects in the next decade instead of the next three decades will be considered this month by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors. The 30/10 initiative will go before the Board of Directors [continue reading]
The first phase of the latest project of Metro’s Joint Development Program breaks ground on Monday. MacArthur Park Metro Apartments is a $45 million joint venture between Metro, McCormack Baron Salazar, Los Angeles Housing Partnership and Polis Builders to bring mixed-use development with 172 affordable housing units and over 30,000 [continue reading]
