Construction continues along Crenshaw Boulevard for the Crenshaw/LAX Line, which means fencing and blocked lanes in order for work to proceed on the underground portion of the rail line. Though the area around the east side of Crenshaw north of Stocker Street may be difficult to navigate, the businesses located there are absolutely open [continue reading]
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Construction continues along Crenshaw Boulevard for the Crenshaw/LAX Line, which means fencing and blocked lanes in order for work to proceed on the underground portion of the rail line. The above photo shows the east side of Crenshaw north of Stocker Street, and it’s clear there is work taking place. However, the businesses located [continue reading]
Starting now through October, there will be intermittent street closures to Crenshaw Boulevard and Rodeo Place due to construction work related to the Crenshaw/LAX Line. The construction notice is posted above, view it in Spanish here. Work will also begin on the construction of the underground Leimert Park Station. Most of [continue reading]
Crenshaw/LAX Line Project Director Charles Beauvoir takes us through the bridge demolition process and talks about the impact the Crenshaw/LAX Line could have on airport congestion once it’s complete. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DMDMjlX150]
Work on the demolition of the old railroad bridge and the bridge abutments remains ahead of schedule. The intersection of Aviation and Century boulevards is on track to reopen at 2 a.m. Monday, four hours ahead of the original schedule. Traffic congestion on the roads around Los Angeles International Airport was either [continue reading]
The CenturyCrush is proceeding nicely. Most of the mid span has been taken down. Hopefully they're ahead of schedule pic.twitter.com/zRFQw9474t — Kevin Takumi (@KevinTakumi) July 26, 2014 Good morning! Demolition work overnight went according to plan and traffic to and from the airport is flowing well. The intersection of Aviation [continue reading]
Traffic in/around LAX running smoothly. Big thnx to people using public transit. Pls keep it up! #CenturyCrunch — LAX Airport (@flyLAXairport) July 26, 2014 Report from LAX and #CenturyCrunch: tumbleweeds, at least leaving airport — Adam Nagourney (@adamnagourney) July 26, 2014 At LAX, departing travelers still saying they had minimal [continue reading]
Road closures were staggered throughout the evening and the intersection of Aviation and Century is now closed. The video below shows equipment being moved into place that will be used to demolish the old railroad bridge in order to make way for the Aviation/Century Station for the Crenshaw/LAX Line. Please [continue reading]
It was pretty quiet near the intersection of Century and Aviation boulevards earlier this evening as workers prepared to tear down the old railroad bridge to clear the way for the Crenshaw/LAX Line’s new station. The above photo provides a pretty good view of the scope of the work that [continue reading]
