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 blog. Bussing it to the airport: the life and death(?) of Line #439 (More Than Red Cars) This post offers a detailed history [continue reading]
A press event is being held at Union Station this morning to promote the Transportation Security Administration’s new safety awareness program for the holiday travel season. Among the speakers will be Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Sheriff Lee Baca. Here is the TSA’s press release: LOS ANGELES — The [continue reading]
With the Crenshaw/LAX Line receiving a $546-million loan from the federal government last week to speed its construction, we’ve received some questions from readers about how the project will connect to the airport. I spoke with Metro planners. Here is where things stand for now: •The Crenshaw/LAX Line will include [continue reading]
Some good news for the future Crenshaw/LAX Line, one of the new light rail lines that Metro is currently planning: The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a $1.45-million grant to help design an intermodal transit center for the Aviation/Century station near LAX. The grant was originally supposed to go to [continue reading]
The 30/10 Initiative got some nice coverage this weekend from local AP scribe Daisy Nguyen. Her story hit the wires today and I see it’s already been picked up by the Washington Post. Attentive readers already know that the 30/10 plan proposes to use federal loans, grants and other financing [continue reading]
One of our New Year’s Resolutions for the Source is to publish reader email on a more frequent basis — ideally we would like to get enough interesting comments to publish them once each week. Send comments to thesource@metro.net. Here is this week’s edition: Riders and transit advocates have been [continue reading]
I posted yesterday that Metro staffers have released their recommendation that the future Crenshaw line be a light rail line that runs between Exposition Boulevard and the Green Line, with a key stop adjacent to LAX. The line is scheduled to open by 2018, according to the long-range plan recently [continue reading]
