Good morning, Metro riders and interested parties. The regular Board Meeting of July 26, 2012, adjourned to Monday, August 6, is now underway here at Metro headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. Up for discussion is the proposed amendment to the Measure R Traffic Relief and Rail Expansion Ordinance. You can [continue reading]
What is the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor? Perhaps not as well known as some of the others, the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor is one of the 12 Measure R transit projects. The project is currently in the Alternatives Analysis (AA) phase in which different types of [continue reading]
Video by Vincent Ybarra. Here is the video of opening day events on the Metro Orange Line Extension. Online: All about the Orange Line Extension
June 30, 2012: Scenes from opening day of the Metro Orange Line Extension to Chatsworth. Click on images below to view. Photos by Gary Leonard
Metro and the West Valley communities are celebrating the opening of the Orange Line Extension today. Festivities continue to 4 p.m. and include food trucks, live music and community booths. [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy has just issued this legislative alert: America Fast Forward – Embedded in Surface Transportation Bill – Heads to White House for President’s Signature America Fast Forward, the innovative national transportation finance plan championed by our Board Chairman and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and our Board [continue reading]
The story has been developing throughout the day — it seems the Senate and House have struck a deal to pass the first multi-year bill since 2005. That bill had expired in 2009 and been given a number of short-term extensions while Congress bickered over the new bill. It’s never [continue reading]
Measure R Extension: The big-ticket item at Thursday’s Board of Directors meeting is a scheduled vote on whether the Board wants to ask voters to extend the half-cent sales tax beyond its mid-2039 expiration date. Metro staff is proposing to extend the tax as a way to possibly accelerate all [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB2mys1HmuE&hd=1[/youtube] Above is a great time-lapse video of the pour and below is the news release from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, which is building the Pasadena-to-Azusa line — which, by the way, remains on-time and on budget: MONROVIA — Achieving another major milestone in the Metro Gold [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. Kings parade and rally to be held Thursday in downtown L.A. (The Daily News) [continue reading]
