Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Metro to connect $670 million for downtown rail connector (L.A. Times) Coverage of today’s announcement that after years of negotiations, Metro and the Federal Transit [continue reading]
From our friends at the Federal Transit Administration: LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today celebrated the signing of a $670 million construction grant agreement to help build the Regional Connector light rail transit line in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The two-mile [continue reading]
The 11.5-mile Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension is now 50 percent complete, according to the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, which is building the Pasadena-to-Azusa/Glendora border project. Below are an awesome collection of aerial photos taken in recent days by the Construction Authority. The news release — with a [continue reading]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOAO5qgI64&feature=youtu.be] Seven minutes of awesomeness from our friends at the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the agency building the 11.5-mile project between eastern Pasadena and the Azusa/Glendora border. I’ll be touring the project next week — I’m looking forward to seeing all the work done. The project is about [continue reading]
[scribd id=201323163 key=key-2an851un2efjzomlzyhw mode=scroll] UPDATE: The gavel has dropped on the meeting and it’s now underway. This is a big meeting, folks, with tons of interestingness (relatively speaking) and a lot of important items. For those attending and media: might be a good idea to have a few Red Bulls [continue reading]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c9AP2w9j6U&feature=youtu.be] And here is video of this morning’s groundbreaking for the Crenshaw/LAX Line. There are nice comments about mobility — and the need for more of it — from U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Metro would like to extend a [continue reading]
One of the more notable Measure R projects under study is the Airport Metro Connector, which seeks to connect the Metro Rail system to Los Angeles International Airport. The latest: Metro staff in collaboration with Los Angeles World Airports (the city of Los Angeles agency that oversees LAX) are recommending [continue reading]
In the past day or so, some nice signs of progress on the Gold Line Foothill Extension which will add 11.5 miles to the Gold Line, stretching it from eastern Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border, along with a large rail vehicle maintenance facility in Monrovia. The two top photos show [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! ART OF TRANSIT: The photo is by Bob Wick, a U.S. Bureau of Land Management California employee and was taken in Wyoming. The BLM is [continue reading]
With the Crenshaw/LAX Line getting closer to construction in 2014, I wanted to address a specific issue involving the project: how the Metro Rail system will eventually connect to the terminals at Los Angeles International Airport. I also wanted to address a related notion floating around in the buzz-o-sphere that [continue reading]
