Wow – some good news out of Washington D.C. for the Foothill Extension project, which will extend the current Gold Line from Pasadena for 11.5 miles to the Azusa/Glendora border. It’s great news because transit planners are always fretting — rightfully — on how to solve the “first mile-last mile” [continue reading]
Local media were provided a nice tour this morning of the work being done on the “Iconic Bridge” being built over the eastbound 210 freeway for the Gold Line Foothill Extension in Arcadia. The Measure R-funded project will extend the existing Gold Line from its terminus at Sierra Madre Villa [continue reading]
Artists presented their final designs at a meeting of the Metro Orange Line Extension Art Advisory Group at the Chatsworth Branch Library a few days ago. The meeting marked the end of the design phase and the beginning of fabrication for station artwork along the four-mile busway extension between Canoga [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 blog. AEG unveils stadium traffic impact (Daily Breeze) The L.A. City Council — and those who tuned in — got their first peak [continue reading]
The annual Texas Transportation Institute congestion survey was released today and, as usual, the L.A. metropolitan area didn’t fare well — ranked third in the U.S. for time delays per auto commuter per year and first when it came to overall time and fuel wasted due to traffic jams. As [continue reading]
The Texas Transportation Institute is scheduled to release its annual congestion survey tomorrow. If history holds true, the Los Angeles area will likely rank as of the most congested traffic areas in the United States, as measured by the TTI. As regular readers know, there are all sorts of ways [continue reading]
Work on the bridge that will take the Gold Line Foothill Extension from the median of the 210 to the south side of the freeway continues. Here’s the alert from the Foothill Extension Construction Authority, which is building the 11.5 project from Pasadena to Azusa:
Here’s the update provided yesterday by Metro’s government relations team. Keep in mind this concerns next year’s federal budget — not to be confused with the multi-year transportation spending bill that is currently being written/debated/slapped together by Congress. One FYI: the New Starts program helps fund large transit projects around [continue reading]
The first of the two meetings on extending the Eastside Gold Line further east is tonight at 6 p.m. at the Montebello Senior Center at City Park, 115 South Taylor Avenue. The Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2 is a Measure R-funded project. The draft environmental study is expected to be [continue reading]
Cool sequence of photos taken early Tuesday morning on the 210 freeway as part of the construction of the “Iconic Bridge” for the Gold Line Foothill Extension, a key Measure R project. Here’s the update on the work from Foothill Extension Construction Authority CEO Habib Balian: Early this morning, work [continue reading]
