The American Planning Association Los Angeles Chapter has awarded the Planning Excellence in Implementation Award to the Temple City Council for the Rosemead Boulevard Beautification and Safety Enhancement Project. The project is partially funded by Metro’s 2011 Call for Projects. The project, once completed, will include ADA compliant sidewalks, more trees, a [continue reading]
If you ride a bus that travels down Wilshire Boulevard during peak hours, you should see a slight improvement in travel time starting tomorrow morning. A segment of the Wilshire Boulevard BRT bus lanes opens at 7 a.m. Wednesday. Here’s the press release from Metro: Bus riders on one of [continue reading]
We may not have a lot of cherry trees in Southern California, but jacarandas are a very pretty substitute. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. Many of the photos we’ve featured can be [continue reading]
Regional Connector PPT Metro is holding a round of community meetings this week to seek community input on a plan to extend work hours for specific activities requiring limited periods of overnight work to construct the Regional Connector underground light rail line through Downtown Los Angeles. (See community presentation above). [continue reading]
2013-05-31 Request for Qualifications (RFQ) Metro’s highway program quietly reached a milestone on Friday when the agency officially posted online a solicitation to firms to be considered to both build and help finance a project that would add 13.5 miles of HOV/toll lanes to the 5 freeway between the 14 freeway and [continue reading]
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvDofdgvMX8] The Natural History Museum may be 100 years old this year, but it has never looked younger. It has undergone some serious renovations over the years, and this weekend the NHM will be unveiling the new Otis Booth Pavilion, featuring a re-positioned 65-foot high whale skeleton guaranteed to impress. [continue reading]
The Regional Connector project plans to hold meetings this week for residents and stakeholders near the site of planned light rail stations in Downtown Los Angeles. The team will provide a project update and discuss night-time construction activities. Here’s the meeting notices for Monday through Wednesday.
Clever/fun PR move by the San Francisco MTA: they’ve created Twitter accounts for both of the tunnel boring machines that will be used to dig the Central Subway project. The subway will extend one of the existing light rail lines for 1.7 miles north between the Caltrain station — Caltrain [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 Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. 11 small ideas for Mayor-elect Garcetti to make L.A. less blighty (Curbed LA) I [continue reading]
