Here’s the update from the High Desert Corridor project team: Metro is hosting the last of four public meetings on the High Desert Corridor tonight at the Stater Bros. Mavericks Stadium in Adelanto. Due to technical difficulties, last night’s meeting in Victorville was not available online. Attached is the PowerPoint [continue reading]
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: There has been talk lately about reforming the environmental review process for transportation projects. It’s something, I think, should happen. Look at the current process. It often takes five years and many millions of dollars to complete environmental studies for transportation projects. It’s a boon for transportation planners [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. House GOP transportation bill at odds with Boxer’s (San Francisco Chronicle) And let the [continue reading]
photo by double-h, via Flickr creative commons Good sunset shot of the Osaka monorail, taken earlier or later today (depending on your point of view or which side of the Date Line you’re on, I suppose) by a Sony NEX-7. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post [continue reading]
A quick reminder: Metro is hosting a meeting tonight in Victorville to provide the community with a status report on the High Desert Corridor project. The Metro HDC webpage notes that the project “proposes the construction of a new, approximately 63-mile, east-west freeway/expressway linking State Route (SR)-14 in Los Angeles [continue reading]
Here’s the construction notice from the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements project: 405 Construction Notice
In a recent NPR – Marketplace story, travel writer Patrick Symmes talks about an experiment he’s conducting with bikes and GPS trackers — you see Symmes has had seven bikes stolen, and he’d had enough! In a lengthy write-up for Outside magazine, the journalist attaches GPS trackers to ‘bait’ bikes [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, our roundup of the latest Metro related tweets. To get out attention, add the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets. For specific complaints and customer service, please use the Customer Comment Form on Metro.net.
photo by Gareth Hutton, via Flickr creative commons Go ahead and guess the country where this photo of a very lonely and cold bus stop was taken. I’ll even provide a hint: the photo was not taken in North America, Antarctica or Africa. That only leaves you four continents to [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. As the City Grew: Historical Maps of Los Angeles (Los Angeles Public Library) Get yourself [continue reading]
