The Metro Board of Directors held their April meeting last Thursday. You can watch the archived livestream here. An index allows you to skip to the item or items you’re interested in watching/hearing. Below is the official recap of the meeting. [scribd id=642909320 key=key-TPOjPL7ESUCqLaypCzIr mode=scroll] Here’s a description of some [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors have their monthly full Board meeting this Thursday, April 27, at 10 a.m. The full agenda with links to staff reports is here. A link will also appear on that same page to watch/listen to the livestream shortly before 10 a.m. on Thursday. The public is [continue reading]
Metro contractors on Monday will begin early work on a project in DTLA that will make it easier to turn around Red/Purple Line trains at Union Station and, thus, improve subway capacity. The project’s formal name is — it’s a mouthful! — the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility. [continue reading]
Metro has released the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility. The project will help improve turnaround times for Red/Purple Line subway trains at Union Station, allow for more frequent subway service and create more space in the subway car rail yard. That’s important with [continue reading]
The Metro Board’s Planning Committee today voted to authorize Metro to enter into a funding agreement with the city of Los Angeles to undertake pre-design activities, prepare an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and conduct public engagement for a potential Arts District/6th Street Station for an amount of $500,000. The full Metro [continue reading]
Friendly reminder: there will be a live webcast beginning at 6:30 p.m. of the public hearing on Thursday for the Division Portal Widening and Turnback Facility Project. This is the project that speed up the turnaround time for subway trains at Union Station and help add capacity to the line — [continue reading]
Update: you can watch/listen to a public hearing for the project that took place on April 12. *** A Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) has been released for a project that [continue reading]
To maintain the Metro Rail System, the agency has numerous buildings that its riders never enter but are crucial to moving them across the county. One of these structures is [continue reading]
Heads up, folks: Metro released a Notice of Preparation (NOP) for the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility project on October 18, 2017, hosted scoping meetings and recorded public comments until November 17, 2017. Since then, Metro has released a revised NOP to notify the public that the proposed project footprint has been expanded to include [continue reading]
Earlier today Metro released the Notice of Preparation (NOP) for the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility project, formerly known as the Red/Purple Line Core Capacity Improvements. The project [continue reading]
