The project will add turn lanes, bike lanes and video detection at the intersection of Lindero Canyon and Agoura roads — a major junction just south of the 101 freeway. It’s the first of 18 Measure R road projects that will get underway this year. Here’s the news release from [continue reading]
Communities that populate a stretch of high desert between the Antelope Valley and Victor Valley will have a chance to weigh in at public meetings next week on the environmental impact study of a 63-mile freeway corridor proposed to link the fast-growing areas. At issue is traffic safety and the growing [continue reading]
Even as partisan battles rage over the current year’s federal budget and budgets for the years beyond, members of the House of Representative Transportation and Infrastructure Committee met Tuesday tot discuss how best to fund transportation in the future. D.C. Streetsblog provided good coverage, noting that there was a lot [continue reading]
Tim Cavanaugh at the Reason Foundation “hit & run” blog recently wrote a post asserting that since Metro decided to cut some bus service due to low ridership, the same should be done to Metro Rail. He suggested a cut of 48 percent to Metro Rail service. Among his reasons: [continue reading]
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is in Washington D.C. today to push the 30/10 Initiative, which is getting a new name for its national push: America Fast Forward. L.A. Times columnist Tim Rutten uses the occasion to praise the plan to use federal financing to accelerate the construction of Measure [continue reading]
[mappress mapid=”9″] It’s one of those planning questions that’s only — and I say ‘only’ sarcastically — several decades old: how to improve mass transit to Los Angeles International Airport? A study to answer that question may soon be underway. The Metro Board of Directors on Thursday is scheduled to [continue reading]
Metro issued a long news release today about its highway program — specifically the many projects either underway or in the planning stage. As the release states, Metro’s highway program is often overlooked because of the agency’s transit programs. But the highway program is important. The most recent Census Bureau [continue reading]
As many of you already know, Metro is pursuing federal legislation to speed up construction of Measure R projects. The plan as originally conceived was called the 30/10 Initiative — meaning it seeks to build 30 years of Measure R projects in 10 years with the use of federal loans [continue reading]
Here’s the webcast from last night’s “710 conversations” meeting in Los Angeles. The entire webcast is about one hour, 20 minutes. The next meeting is Saturday, Feb. 26, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Glendale Community College, 1500 N. Verdugo Road, Glendale. The meeting will also be webcast.
Below is the written testimony submitted to the Congressional transportation funding hearing this morning by Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Member Antonio Villaraigosa. I think it’s worth noting that both Mayor Villaraigosa and Supervisor Don Knabe — here is his testimony — emphasized that changes in federal law sought [continue reading]
