Reminder: If you’re making travel plans for Friday, July 4, please consider that Metrolink will only be operating two special round-trip trains on the Antelope Valley Line. Regular service will resume on July 5. Here are the details from Metrolink: In observance of Independence Day, Metrolink will not operate service on [continue reading]
There has been a nice variety of commuter rail projects in the San Fernando Valley on Metro Board agendas in recent months, including one that was approved today to add a new pedestrian bridge for the Metrolink station at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. To help provide a bigger view of projects [continue reading]
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Here’s the news release from Metrolink: Metrolink to double Antelope Valley Sunday Service Change Designed to Improve Connectivity with Orange, San Diego and San Bernardino counties LOS ANGELES – Twice as many Metrolink trains will provide Sundayservice on the Antelope Valley line beginning Aug. 17 with an increase from six to 12 trains, officials of the [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 Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. L.A. County cities fight over Metro plans for new [continue reading]
The new platform is funded — with $3.7 million from Metro — but the environmental study must be completed before construction can begin. The platform is expected to be in service in 2015 and means that both Metrolink lines that serve the San Fernando Valley — the Ventura County and [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metrolink: LOS ANGELES – Metrolink will begin implementing safety enhancements at three crossings along the Antelope Valley Line on Sunday, March 3, 10 and 17. The affected crossings are at Osborne Street, Pierce Street and Sunland Boulevard, respectively, in the City of Los Angeles. Because of the construction, Metrolink will [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metrolink: LOS ANGELES – Metrolink will suspend service on Wednesday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day, with the exception of two round-trip trains on the Antelope Valley Line. The special Metrolink service will run from Lancaster to L.A. Union Station and back. Traditionally, holiday [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. Authority puts $1.75 million toward Metrolink station at Bob Hope [continue reading]
Some other actions from today’s Metro Board of Directors meeting: •The Board approved some minor bus route modifications, extra Silver Line service on weekends in the future and a proposed operating plan after the Orange Line Extension opens this summer. Board report and Source post on Orange Line. •The Board [continue reading]
