WESTWOOD/VA STATION: For obvious reasons, a lot of attention has been paid to the Westside Subway Extension’s Century City station and the subway alignment in Beverly Hills. There’s no need to belabor those issues here. But one of the more overlooked stories involving the subway project involves the Westwood/VA Hospital [continue reading]
Habib Balian, the CEO of the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, send the following email on Wednesday afternoon to community members following the project that will extend the Gold Line for 11 miles from Pasadena to Azusa: This morning, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michelle Rosenblatt conducted a [continue reading]
Metro officials joined labor and business leaders on Wednesday morning at a rally along the Orange Line Extension in Chatsworth to urge the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a two-year transportation spending bill. Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Antonio Villaraigosa, Metro Directors Richard Katz and Mel Wilson [continue reading]
A key part of the Expo Line Phase 2 project is a new rail car maintenance facility in Santa Monica, located east of Stewart Street and north of Exposition Boulevard. While designs are being finalized for the maintenance yard, this presentation was given by the Expo Line Construction Authority earlier [continue reading]
Metro’s Regional Connector planning staff just sent this email to interested parties: Regional Connector on Metro Board of Director’s Agenda The Regional Connector Transit Corridor Study Final EIS/EIR is included as Item #56 on the Metro Board of Director’s March 22, 2012 agenda. This meeting is scheduled to begin Thursday [continue reading]
photo by dbessam, via Flickr creative commons Nice photo titled “anonymous,” taken on a Metro bus on Vermont Avenue. 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 [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. CTA seeks to sell some naming rights (Chicago Tribune) The CTA runs the [continue reading]
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The Westside Subway Extension on Monday released its Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report. The study is filled with many goodies, including these three renderings of what future station entrances might look like. It is important to note that these are the entrances recommended by Metro staff in the FEIS/R; the Metro [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. Subway makes tracks toward Westwood (ZevWeb) The article provides a detailed look at the [continue reading]
