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. Beverly Hills threatens legal action over Westside Subway Extension (L.A. Times) The library’s blog [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. Do Joss Whedon’s kids go to Beverly Hills High School? (L.A. Times) The video made [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-31REdmfq8&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] Very cool video released today of the ongoing construction work on the bridge that will carry Gold Line Foothill Extension tracks over the eastbound lanes of the 210 freeway in Arcadia. The project, funded by Measure R, is being built by the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority. The [continue reading]
The Measure R half-cent sales tax approved by Los Angeles County voters in 2008 is funding the Gold Line Foothill Extension that extend the Gold Line for 11.5 miles from eastern Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border. The Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the independent agency building the project, is [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtDcf1ZHiGI&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] Good video today from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the independent agency building the Pasadena-to-Azusa line. Check out the time lapse of the frame going up for the Iconic Bridge over the eastbound 210. The project is funded by Measure R, the half-cent sales tax increase approved [continue reading]
HIGH-SPEED RAIL PLAN: The revised plan that was released Monday proposes to build 300 miles of high-speed rail track between Merced and the San Fernando Valley by 2021. It’s nice to see the initial segment of the project expanded to Los Angeles County, but there’s an obvious question here: Even [continue reading]
The latest news from the Gold Line Construction Authority is that the authority has issued a “full notice to proceed” to contractor Kiewit Parsons Joint Venture, thus keeping the line on track for completing construction in the second half of 2015 and then handing the project over to Metro, which [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbv7qAehXc&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] This is the first of a two-part video from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority looking at cities along the 11.5-mile project to extend the Gold Line from Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border. The project is being funded by the Measure R sales tax increase approved by Los [continue reading]
Here’s the news release sent Friday from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the agency building the Measure R-funded project from Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border: Construction of the temporary structure required more than 20 full closures of the eastbound I-210 Freeway MONROVIA, Calif. – Today, the Metro Gold [continue reading]
Habib Balian, the CEO of the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, send the following email on Wednesday afternoon to community members following the project that will extend the Gold Line for 11 miles from Pasadena to Azusa: This morning, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michelle Rosenblatt conducted a [continue reading]
