Metro officials joined labor and business leaders on Wednesday morning at a rally along the Orange Line Extension in Chatsworth to urge the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a two-year transportation spending bill. Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Antonio Villaraigosa, Metro Directors Richard Katz and Mel Wilson [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. Sorry you have to watch a car ad before KABC feature starts! Gas sends [continue reading]
The item was originally scheduled to be considered by the Metro Board of Directors at tomorrow’s meeting. But Metro CEO Art Leahy has decided to push the item back one month in order to have more time to discuss construction techniques and impacts with the business community along Flower Street [continue reading]
Move L.A. is a transit advocacy group that made a big push for Measure R in 2008 and has continued to push for more transit — and more transit funding — in Los Angeles County. The group’s fourth annual transit discussion next Friday promises to be an interesting one with [continue reading]
Despite the cold and wet weather this morning, spirits were high among the 20 Eagle Rock Elementary School second-graders as their teacher led them onto the Chinatown Station platform. The kids had been studying Chinatown in the classroom and thanks to Metro’s Student Field Trip Program they now had the [continue reading]
The city of Beverly Hills has released a report by their consultants Exponent on subway tunneling under the Beverly Hills High School campus for the Westside Subway Extension. The report will be discussed at a meeting of the Beverly Hills City Council this afternoon; the Council meeting can be viewed [continue reading]
Here are a pair of legislative alerts posted Monday. From Metro’s government relations staff: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Poised to Act on Surface Transportation Bill Tomorrow, the U.S. Senate’s Finance Committee, under the leadership of Max Baucus (D-MT), is slated to consider the Highway Investment, Job Creation and Economic Growth [continue reading]
Well it worked: To get some media attention for Dump the Pump day, Metro put CEO Art Leahy behind the wheel of a bus — he’s a former bus operator — and had him drive through a banner this morning. (UPDATE: here’s video). Here’s the news release about Dump the [continue reading]
There’s a lot on the agenda for the monthly meeting of the Metro Board of Directors, the politicians and appointees who get final say on Metro policy. A few highlights from the agenda: •(Item 1) The Board is also set to consider adding a Leimert Park Village station to the [continue reading]
One of the big Measure R projects moving toward construction is the Crenshaw/LAX Line, a light rail project that will run from the intersection of Exposition and Crenshaw boulevards south through Inglewood to a connection with the Green Line near Los Angeles International Airport. In April, County Supervisor and Metro [continue reading]
