First and foremost, there will likely be significant delays in parts of the Westside during the afternoon rush hour Monday due to President Obama’s visit and planned event in West Hollywood. Here’s a brief overview of traffic impacts by L.A. Observed. Here’s more info about bus service impacts. 450x, 460, [continue reading]
The L.A. City Council’s Ad Hoc Committee on Downtown Stadium and Convention Center Renovation is holding a special hearing next Monday at 8:30 a.m. In particular, the committee will be receiving a “presentation by AEG concerning the environmental impact report (EIR) for the Event Center and New Hall, with a [continue reading]
The weekend is here, it’s time to leave the driving to Metro and explore L.A. without a car. Foodies might be interested in checking out the Precious Italian Fest of San Gennaro (Red Line Hollywood/Highland), the NoHo Taco Cook-Off (Red Line North Hollywood) and the Los Angeles Luxury Chocolate Salon [continue reading]
Here’s the latest from the Expo Line Construction Authority, the agency building the line from downtown L.A. to Culver City:
Photo via Metro Transportation Library and Archive’s Flickr page Great photo taken in 1950 of the old downtown Los Angeles PE terminal. Here’s the home page for the Metro Library’s Flickr photostream — you can kill a lot of time cruising the archive. Good stuff. To submit a photo for [continue reading]
Project contractors are planning to close a portion of the northbound I-405 over the Sepulveda Pass starting Saturday night, Sept. 24, for one night to take down some freeway signs and other equipment that are currently in the way of the new traffic lane now being constructed. Temporary signs indicating [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. Four-level turns 58 (KCET SoCal Focus) Great post and photo gallery on the 101-110 freeway interchange, which was novel when it opened [continue reading]
I stumbled upon an article from the travel section in the UK paper The Independent, dated April 29, 2001, entitled Los Angeles without a car. In the article London based writer Jenifer Duncan recounts a visit to Los Angeles without a car despite warnings against doing so from nearly every [continue reading]
450x, 460, 550, Silver Line 201 206 – Special Event Detour Red Line – Late Night Track Maintenance 212/312, 217, 222, 780 – Hollywood Blvd btwn Highland-Orange 4 – Evening/Owl Trips 14, 37, 70, 71, 76, 78/79/378, 96, 485, 487/489, 770, Silver Line – Downtown: Grand Av btwn 1st-2nd Blue [continue reading]
A few other nuggets from today’s Board meeting: •(Item 32) The Board delayed a vote on a proposal to rename six train and bus stations. •(Item 54) The Board, after considerable public testimony, voted to hold off canceling bus service on Line 442 pending a three-month review of what could [continue reading]
