With some key milestones being reached this week, we wanted to provide a quick update on the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project. This is Metro’s effort to build a fast, high-capacity transit line between the San Fernando Valley, the Westside and LAX. •On Wednesday, August 26, proposals from private firms are [continue reading]
One of the key projects with funding from Metro’s M ballot measure is an extension of the Eastside Gold Line from its current terminus at Atlantic Avenue in East L.A. [continue reading]
The feasibility study for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project has been completed, looking at the need and possible routes for a rail line or monorail in the heavily trafficked corridor [continue reading]
Metro has issued a Request for Proposals seeking early assistance from the private sector to jointly develop plans for the massive Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project. Metro’s RFP seeks a pre-development agreement (PDA) with up to two private sector proposers to assist in the planning and design of this mega-project — [continue reading]
[scribd id=426295986 key=key-yitRkuwwbRYKWIAqK54s mode=scroll] pdf here UPDATE: the Board in September approved the contracts described below. The earlier post: As part of Metro’s efforts to reduce traffic and improve mobility, the agency’s Board of Directors this month will consider awarding two contracts to conduct the agency’s Congestion Pricing Feasibility Study. [continue reading]
•Channeling his inner Bruce Banner, Howard Beale and/or Thanos, LAT columnist Steve Lopez says the apocalypse is nigh and something must be done ASAP about traffic and sky high housing costs in our region. As self-appointed King of California, Lopez declares: I will wipe out gridlock overnight by imposing a [continue reading]
[scribd id=407339442 key=key-5kpukRoQaqTk00CrfkDN mode=scroll] The Metro Board held its April meeting on Thursday. You can watch the meeting here. The agenda is above or pdf here. Among the actions taken yesterday: •The Board approved a receive-and-file on the aerial tram that a private firm proposes to fund, build and operate [continue reading]
“I'm a 108 bus catchingBlue line train riding, westsider with the young extras” — RIP Nipsey Hussle. pic.twitter.com/5USIexD07N — Metro Los Angeles (@metrolosangeles) April 1, 2019 Here’s an appreciation in [continue reading]
Tidbit from @metrolosangeles: The service planning department says they're working with LADOT and Garcetti’s office to install a "pilot bus lane" by the end of 2019. Several other corridors could [continue reading]
As many of you likely know, the Metro Board of Directors in February approved launching a feasibility study of congestion relief pricing, which is the use of tolls to manage [continue reading]
