Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Editor’s note: Hello Source readers. I’m traveling this week and will be mostly away from the blog — but wanted to catch up to the [continue reading]
Metro will be holding an advisory group meeting for the first section of the Metro Purple Line Extension on Tuesday, May 27. Staff will provide an overview of anticipated construction-related noise and vibration, and background on upcoming pre-construction surveys for properties along the alignment between Wilshire/Western and La Cienega. Meeting [continue reading]
Officials from Metro and the Federal Transit Administration signed a pair of agreements this morning in Washington D.C. for a $1.25-billion federal grant and a $856-million federally-backed loan to build the first phase of the Purple Line Extension subway under Wilshire Boulevard. We’ll post video of this morning’s event later. The agreements clear [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! My horrible, hopeful L.A. commute (Zocalo Public Square) Columnist Joe Mathews writes about his three- to four-hour daily journey that involves starting in South Pasadena, [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! LAX takes steps to alleviate traffic in what could be a record-setting year (Los Angeles Newspaper Group) The airport is on track to break its [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Just a reminder, there’s a reason they haven’t begun digging the 710 tunnel (Streetsblog L.A.) The foremost reasons are that the environmental review process is [continue reading]
This is the latest chapter in what has been an annual debate on what the federal government should be spending on helping local areas build and maintain transportation infrastructure. It’s important to Metro because the federal government has been — and hopefully will continue to be — a funding partner [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Here are two plans for an airport people mover (Curbed LA) The Curbed post is based on tweets from L.A. Times transportation reporter Laura Nelson, [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Union Station’s complexity grows 75 years down the line (L.A. Times) A super interesting essay by architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne on the history of Union [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! South L.A. needs trees (L.A. Times) The editorial despairs the loss of about 135 trees along Crenshaw Boulevard to accommodate construction of the Crenshaw/LAX Line [continue reading]
