As usual, the meeting is in the Metro headquarters adjacent to Los Angeles Union Station. The public is welcome to attend. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Here’s the agenda. The big item tomorrow is the Board’s consideration of the Crenshaw/LAX Line’s final environmental document. The Board [continue reading]
We know readers have lots of questions about TAP. (You’ve sent in 40 comments on our turnstiles post since last week!) But if you think you already know a lot about TAP, you may want to check out a new video contest being sponsored by Cubic Transportation Systems, manufacturers of [continue reading]
Because of the fatal stabbing on the Red Line in August — the first slaying in the history of the subway since it opened in 1993 — there has been some understandable discussion about safety and crime on Metro buses and trains. I sat down with Commander Patrick J. Jordan [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. Automated license plate readers at Metro parking garages? (Plus Metro) A brief look at an item on tomorrow’s agenda for the Metro [continue reading]
Here’s the update provided yesterday by Metro’s government relations team. Keep in mind this concerns next year’s federal budget — not to be confused with the multi-year transportation spending bill that is currently being written/debated/slapped together by Congress. One FYI: the New Starts program helps fund large transit projects around [continue reading]
The Metro Transportation Library & Archive’s collection on Flickr now contains more than 7,500 historic images and continues to grow. Numerous photographs from the Pacific Electric (“Red Car”) and Los Angeles Railway(“Yellow Car”) systems shed light on our transit history and what was once the largest streetcar system in the world. This [continue reading]
The first of the two meetings on extending the Eastside Gold Line further east is tonight at 6 p.m. at the Montebello Senior Center at City Park, 115 South Taylor Avenue. The Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2 is a Measure R-funded project. The draft environmental study is expected to be [continue reading]
Cool sequence of photos taken early Tuesday morning on the 210 freeway as part of the construction of the “Iconic Bridge” for the Gold Line Foothill Extension, a key Measure R project. Here’s the update on the work from Foothill Extension Construction Authority CEO Habib Balian: Early this morning, work [continue reading]
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We posted last week about a letter sent to Metro by Eli Broad and a new group calling itself the Connector Community Coalition. The letter asked for major changes in the Regional Connector light rail project that is in the final planning stages and will eventually connect the Blue, Expo [continue reading]
