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 blog. Kings County sues to stop bullet train from building there (Fresno Bee) The county in the San Joaquin Valley alleges that the [continue reading]
photo by @Spider_Dude, via Twitter The Blue Line as seen from the Wilmington/Imperial Green Line station in Willowbrook. Very cool photo — great colors! 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 [continue reading]
Below is the news release from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the independent agency building the Measure R-funded project, including the bridge that will carry the tracks from the 210 freeway median across the eastbound lanes toward the downtown Arcadia station: MONROVIA – The I-210 Gold Line Bridge, [continue reading]
The Expo Construction Authority hosted a community meeting last night in Santa Monica to update Westsiders on the progress of Phase 2’s design and the preliminary construction schedule. The Measure R project will connect Expo Phase 1’s terminus in Culver City to downtown Santa Monica when completed, providing a reliable [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metro: The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements contractor will remove the abutments on the east side of Sunset Boulevard Bridge in West Los Angeles, work that requires the night-time only closure of Sepulveda Boulevard between Montana Avenue and Sepulveda Way for three consecutive nights beginning Wednesday, [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.
How do the street signal lights know to stay green a little longer or turn from red to green a little sooner when Metro Rapid and Metro Orange Line buses are approaching? After our original post some of you asked about train signal preemption, which is not the same thing as [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 blog. TTI study says L.A. is top offender on fuel wasting list. So what else is new? (Wall Street Journal) The Texas Transportation [continue reading]
photo by Jeff Goodhart, via submission Nicely composed photo taken in the train station in Florence, Italy. The photo was taken with a Nikon D90, with a Nikkor 35mm 1.8 lens, a 1/80th second shutter speed and aperture of f/1.8. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors’ Planning Committee on Wednesday are scheduled to receive-and-file a Metro staff report about the recently-completed Alternatives Analysis for the High Desert Corridor project. The project proposes a new 63-mile freeway from Palmdale to State Route 18 in San Bernardino. It’s a road that has been [continue reading]
