[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P-i_5skhsU[/youtube] 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. The above video is billed as two people meeting on a New York subway train — one with a ukelele, the [continue reading]
In 2008, Los Angeles County voters approved the Measure R sales tax increase of one-half cent to pay for new road and transit projects. The approval of Measure R — with 68 percent of the vote — jump-started Metro’s efforts to build a network of bus and rail projects that [continue reading]
Margaret Lazzari’s designs for Sherman Way Station on the Orange Line Extension includes two, 27-foot long maps that will be embedded into concrete platforms. The west platform will house a map of 1910 era Owensmouth, with a free-flowing Los Angeles River and an undeveloped natural landscape. An adjacent art panel will [continue reading]
Work continues to proceed well on the “Iconic Bridge” for the Gold Line Foothill Extension that will bring the Gold Line from Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border. The photo above shows one of the supports for the bridge that will carry the tracks from the middle of the 210 freeway [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P1bFR5LOcg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] The Reason Foundation — long-time critics of rail mass transit — put together the above video posted to YouTube last week. It’s amusing. It’s also a little factually challenged. So in the spirit of fun, here goes: •It’s about 29 miles by road — not 17 — from LAX [continue reading]
SANTA MONICA BIKE PLAN: Congrats to Santa Monica, where the City Council last week approved a new bike plan for the already very bike-friendly Republic. The best part, I think, are bike lanes for the city’s downtown area where cyclists currently get stuck in some pretty serious car traffic. It [continue reading]
The update from Metro’s government relations staff is below. The agency has been pushing for America Fast Forward legislation — to use government loans and financing to accelerate the building of transit and road projects — to be included in the bill. A new multi-year bill was supposed to be [continue reading]
1. SEARCH YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT HIGH-SPEED RAIL: I’ve searched my feelings and finally figured out exactly how I feel about high-speed rail: the same way I felt about the Westside Subway project between 2005 and 2007 when many, many public officials were talking about it but Metro obviously didn’t have [continue reading]
The Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority has posted new interactive maps, showing San Gabriel Valley destinations in relation to future stations along the line from Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border. I’ve posted a couple of the maps above. The Irwindale map is interesting in what it doesn’t show — [continue reading]
The part of the Metro website devoted to projects was recently updated with a little more information about a project that I know is near and dear the hearts of many Source readers: The Sepulveda Pass Corridor, which proposes to improve transit between the Westside and the San Fernando Valley [continue reading]
