Of Century City, the Boring Co. and Taylor Swift: How We Roll, March 12
Dept. of Taylor Swift: 7th and Metro Center makes a cameo in her new video. Dept. of Elon Musk: Yeah, he gets his own department on the Source. This thread [continue reading]
Purple Line phase 2 groundbreaking!
Metro joined local, state and federal officials today to break ground on Section 2 of the Metro Purple Line Extension Project that will add 2.6-miles of new subway service to [continue reading]
10-day street closure on Wilshire at Western for Purple Line Extension work
Metro is working to connect the Purple Line Extension to the existing Purple Line at Wilshire/Western Station. To expedite decking and to support construction activities in this very dense and [continue reading]
Hey let’s talk infrastructure!; HWR, Feb. 13
Things to read whilst transiting: Ever want to walk across Antarctica? Read this awesome New Yorker article first. Art of Transit: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (@metrolosangeles) Building a stronger America (Whitehouse.gov) First, the release from President Donald Trump and [continue reading]
Business Interruption Fund spotlight: Apollonia’s Pizzeria
Apollonia’s Pizzeria is located along Section 1 of the Purple Line Extension and is owned and operated by husband and wife Justin and Linda De Leon. With 25 years of [continue reading]
Twenty-Eight by ’28 Plan approved; Metro Board meeting roundup
[scribd id=369924920 key=key-osDTwekCPtAPY1QLHPdB mode=scroll] Agenda pdf for download and printing here The first Metro Board meeting of 2018 is now in the books. Here is the official recap of actions and you can listen here. Among the actions taken today, the Board: •Adopted the “Twenty-Eight by ’28” plan to complete 28 major [continue reading]
Update on construction progress for the Purple Line Extension
With the turning of the calendar, we thought it would be a good time to provide an update on one of our key transit projects: the nine-mile extension of the [continue reading]
2017 in review: our top 10 Metro storylines for the past year
Check it out: an end of the year list that actually arrives at the very end of the year! Instead of listing every single thing that happened at Metro this [continue reading]
Purple Line Extension tunneling machines arrive in So Cal and polls open for art and naming contest
Over the next several weeks parts of the Purple Line Extension tunnel boring machines (TBMs) will begin arriving at the Ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Galveston. From the ports, [continue reading]
Business Interruption Fund spotlight: Miracle Mile Toy Hall
Photos by Metro Miracle Mile Toy Hall, formerly known as Miracle Mile Toys & Games, is co-owned by Christine C. Johnson and Carrie Harr and is located along the alignment [continue reading]