This weekly post features news from other transit agencies and planners from around the world. Did we miss a good story? Let us know in the comments. Moscow Metro sets sights on expansion The Moscow Metro – known for its expansive reach and gorgeous stations – will expand even further [continue reading]
Here are some other actions taken by the Metro Board of Directors at their meeting on Thursday: •(Item 5) The Board approved a motion by Councilman Jose Huizar seeking construction bids that would include building a second portal — at 2nd and Spring — to the 2nd/Broadway station for the [continue reading]
Photo credit: Jung Gatoona, via submission Here’s the email that Jung sent accompanying this fine photo: Los Angeles is one amazing place to bike, and its varying landscape offers so much for cyclists. Attached is a photo of myself on top of Saddle Peak in Malibu after climbing up roughly about [continue reading]
At today’s Metro Board meeting, agency CEO Art Leahy announced that pre-revenue testing for the Expo Line will begin this coming Monday. The testing is intended to simulate actual service with trains running on a regular schedule, but with no customers on board. Trains will be operating between the Expo [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors today unanimously approved a plan to help increase the number of workers from disadvantaged areas to be hired to work on the agency’s transit and road projects. The Project Labor Agreement (PLA) between Metro and the Los Angeles/Orange County Building Trades Council is believed by [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. In Kazakhstan, A Beautiful, Futuristic New Subway System (The Atlantic Cities) From Almaty in the [continue reading]
The regular monthly meeting of the agency’s Board of Directors has been underway for about an hour now. Here’s the agenda. We’ll have coverage later of some of the actions taken by the Board, including their consideration of a Project Labor Agreement to increase hiring of economically disadvantaged workers.
After you’re done giving the city of L.A. input on its mobility program — as mentioned here yesterday — you’ll have a chance to consider the big picture too. The Southern California Association of Governments is hosting public workshops this winter to update the public on SCAG’s draft Regional Transportation [continue reading]
HIGH-SPEED RAIL: If you’re in school and studying to be a transportation planner and have to do a thesis or dissertation, please consider studying different ways that California could improve it’s inter-city rail network and at what cost. Here are the key excerpts from the State Auditor’s summary report on [continue reading]
We announced back in November that the city of Los Angeles has launched an online forum called LA/2B to help citizens create a vision for the future of mobility in L.A. In a nutshell: The city is updating its “Mobility Element” — formerly known as the Transportation Element — which [continue reading]
