Purple Line phase 2 groundbreaking!
Metro joined local, state and federal officials today to break ground on Section 2 of the Metro Purple Line Extension Project that will add 2.6-miles of new subway service to [continue reading]
Staff recommends alternative 5C for 710 Corridor Project
[scribd id=371276304 key=key-SWL5nGAWOKvIEKHZfLb8 mode=scroll] pdf here Metro staff are recommending Alternative 5C for the I-710 Corridor Project, which would add an additional lane in each direction of the I-710 freeway between Long Beach and the SR-60 freeway, upgrade interchanges and construct other improvement projects to improve traffic flow and improve [continue reading]
Twenty-Eight by ’28 Plan approved; Metro Board meeting roundup
[scribd id=369924920 key=key-osDTwekCPtAPY1QLHPdB mode=scroll] Agenda pdf for download and printing here The first Metro Board meeting of 2018 is now in the books. Here is the official recap of actions and you can listen here. Among the actions taken today, the Board: •Adopted the “Twenty-Eight by ’28” plan to complete 28 major [continue reading]
Update on construction progress for the Purple Line Extension
With the turning of the calendar, we thought it would be a good time to provide an update on one of our key transit projects: the nine-mile extension of the [continue reading]
Update on Green Line South Bay extension to Torrance
[scribd id=368685679 key=key-zm8SKto1s0uG4RrtYhk2 mode=scroll] Planning work continues on a key Metro Rail project to extend the Green Line from its current terminus at Redondo Beach Station to a new transit [continue reading]
NYC subway construction costs (vs LA), transit isn’t all rainbows: HWR, Jan. 3
Art of Transit: Some pics from the Crenshaw/LAX Line taken last week. The most expensive mile of subway track on Earth (NYT) Feature: the case for the subway (NYT Magazine) [continue reading]
2017 in review: our top 10 Metro storylines for the past year
Check it out: an end of the year list that actually arrives at the very end of the year! Instead of listing every single thing that happened at Metro this [continue reading]
Video: Regional Connector tunneling machine reaches another milestone
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the Regional Connector resurfaced Friday at the future Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill Station. The TBM began digging the second tunnel on the project in [continue reading]
Groundbreaking ceremony held for Gold Line extension to Claremont and Montclair
After many, many years of planning and advocacy, the Gold Line light rail extension to Claremont and Montclair held a ceremonial groundbreaking before a big crowd this morning at Citrus College in Glendora. The project will extend the Gold Line east from its current terminus in Azusa for 12.3 miles [continue reading]
New video: take an aerial tour of the Gold Line extension to Claremont and Montclair
Nice new video from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the agency planning and building the 12.3-mile project that will bring the Gold Line east to Glendora, San Dimas, [continue reading]