The intersection of 1st Avenue and Santa Clara Street in Arcadia will be closed starting next Monday, September 9. The closure will be in place for six months as Foothill Gold Line Extension Construction Authority crews construct the light rail grade crossing improvements through the intersection. Additionally, Front Street between [continue reading]
Progress continues on the Gold Line Foothill Extension project — you can now see the station foundations in Arcadia and Monrovia, as shown above. Work can also be up seen throughout the 11.5-mile alignment between eastern Pasadena and the Azusa/Glendora border. For those who live in the area, the Arcadia [continue reading]
Construction notices for a variety of work being done on the Gold Line Foothill Extension alignment between Duarte and the Azusa/Glendora border: City of Duarte – Buena Vista St/Duarte Rd Intersection Improvements: A full closure of the intersection at Buena Vista St and Duarte Rd will take place starting tonight for [continue reading]
Click above to see progress on the San Gabriel River bridge. Photos by Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority. The Gold Line Foothill Extension project is under construction and making some big-time progress on the two dozen bridges that have to be built or modified to extend the Gold Line [continue reading]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLJI-0CESU&w=584&h=438] This week marks the 10th anniversary of Gold Line service beginning between Los Angeles Union Station and Pasadena. We’ll have some other posts as the week continues, but I thought it would be fun to start this one from YouTube user PhotoBoost. What exactly is happening here? This is [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 Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. L.A. County cities fight over Metro plans for new [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 Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Ten minutes with tunnel boring machines that tweet (Engineering [continue reading]
Metro project acceleration plan The Metro Board of Directors this month will consider a project acceleration plan that, on average, would lop an average of 10 years off the time it takes to build second and third decade Measure R transit and road projects. It’s a big deal for many [continue reading]
Below is the news release issued Friday by the Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the independent agency building the 11.5-mile extension of the Gold Line from eastern Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border. Click here to receive construction updates on the project. As area residents can see, there’s a lot of work [continue reading]
As you may have heard, there’s a runoff Tuesday in Los Angeles to elect the next mayor of the second-largest city in the nation — a city with about 3.8 million inhabitants and some well-known transportation challenges. I ran the following post on March 4, the day before the primary election in [continue reading]
