How We Roll, June 5: Wonder Woman never misses her bus
Nice video from Lucia Phan of our Purple Line Extension team on the work underway to build a new subway station below traffic passing overhead at Wilshire and La Brea. [continue reading]
How We Roll, May 1: the key to improving New York’s subway service
Multimodal Music: Multimodal Symphony from Will Geary on Vimeo. Key to Improving Subway Service in New York? Modern Signals (N.Y. Times) New York’s subway ridership has been up in recent years, but [continue reading]
Notice to proceed issued for section 2 of Purple Line Extension!
This is a bit on the procedural side but still a nice little milestone: Metro on Wednesday issued a “notice to proceed” to Tutor Perini/O & G to begin work building [continue reading]
Metro releases RFP to study Sepulveda Pass transit options
In a significant initial step to bring a transit line through L.A.’s notoriously congested Sepulveda Pass, Metro on Wednesday issued a Request for Proposals to study the feasibility of various [continue reading]
Which route should the West Santa Ana Branch project take into DTLA?
One of the big transit challenges involving downtown L.A. is this: it’s big. Really big. Our downtown more or less runs from the 10 to the 101 and [continue reading]
Fresh renderings: transit station that will serve LAX and new people mover
[scribd id=345401753 key=key-5NtcgnyTqxhPhrpHnH73 mode=scroll] (pdf for printing and download here) Nice presentation above on the Airport Metro Connector project, a new transit station that will be located at Aviation Boulevard [continue reading]
Latest Metro staff report on issues involving an Arts District Metro Rail station
It’s no secret that new residential and commercial development is soaring in the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles. Several projects are underway and a lot more are in the planning [continue reading]
How We Roll, April 4: some officials hope that transportation funding will soar like an eagle
ICYMI: paid parking is coming to North Hollywood and Universal City/Studio City stations beginning April 24. ICYMI 2: The latest on the joint development on 15 acres of land surrounding [continue reading]
Primer for newbies: the Purple Line Extension
There are many balls in the air transit-wise these days around Los Angeles with ongoing construction or planning on multiple projects. With early work underway on the section of the Purple [continue reading]
Guidelines for Measure M released for public comment and review
[scribd id=342831071 key=key-eMQzAD9UUa9qahrM21G8 mode=scroll] (pdf for download and printing is here) Guidelines for the management and spending of Measure M dollars were released to the public for review Thursday by the Metro Board of Directors. The public comment period runs through May 26. The goal is to have the Board [continue reading]