After nearly five years of planning and scores of public meetings, the Metro Board of Directors on Thursday certified the Westside Subway Extension’s Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report (FEIS/R), the legally-required study that considers the many options, impacts and mitigations for the project. In addition, the Metro Board approved the route [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. Clear the tracks, Beverly Hills (L.A. Times) A long editorial [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors Planning Committee today recommended that the full Board next week certify the Final Environmental Imapct Statement/Report for the Westside Subway Extension, a key Measure R-funded project. The vote was 3 to 1 with Board Members Diane DuBois, Richard Katz and Zev Yaroslavsky voting for and [continue reading]
In response to a second report commissioned by the city of Beverly Hills, Metro officials have again said that they stand by the agency’s seismic and tunneling safety reports on the Westside Subway Extension project. Specifically, Metro officials stand by their conclusion that it is safer to build a subway [continue reading]
In response to a report commissioned by the city of Beverly Hills, Metro officials on Tuesday said they stand by seismic and tunneling safety reports that Metro released in October as part of its planning of the Westside Subway Extension project. Metro’s response to the report by the environmental consulting [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. AEG unveils traffic plan for downtown football stadium (Daily News) [continue reading]
The Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report for the Westside Subway Extension was released this afternoon (news release here, report here). Here are some other highlights about the project from the report: •As the map above and the chart below demonstrates, one big benefit of the Westside Subway Extension is that it [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. Seismic study begins on Beverly Hills High campus (Beverly Hills Patch) The Beverly Hills Unified School District has hired a firm to evaluate [continue reading]
On Oct. 21 and 28, the Beverly Hills Courier published six news and analysis articles about the two reports Metro released last month on seismic and tunneling issues affecting the Westside Subway Extension project in the Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood areas (Oct. 21 edition and Oct. 28 edition; [continue reading]
The pair of reports on tunneling safety and seismic issues involving the Westside Subway Extension between Beverly Hills and Westwood have been posted online. The reports were the basis for yesterday’s oral report to the Board of Directors by a variety of engineers, geologists and seismologists. The gist of it: [continue reading]
