Art of Transit 1: Related: More recent Crenshaw/LAX Line construction pics. Art of Transit 2: Art of Transit 3: https://twitter.com/CurbedSF/status/812060405992407040 Big rig crashes on 210; Gold Line stopped in Pasadena (KTLA) The accident occurred on the 210 freeway between the Allen and Sierra Madre Villa stations at 4:52 a.m. today [continue reading]
Metro Red Line bomb threat highlights vulnerabilities of rail system to attack (SGV Tribune) How vulnerable are transit systems in the U.S. to a terrorist attack? And is a multi-agency police force — as has been proposed by Metro staff — the best way to safeguard our local system? Those [continue reading]
Assembly of the Regional Connector’s tunnel boring machine (TBM), Angeli, has commenced. The machine’s heaviest components were lowered by a heavy-duty crane known as a gantry system. Each segment of [continue reading]
Work on the Metro Regional Connector is marching on. Beginning tomorrow, Saturday, December 2, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., traffic lanes at the 2nd St. and Spring St. intersection in [continue reading]
ICYMI: Here’s our post about the new policing contract scheduled to be considered by the Metro Board on Dec. 1. Surprised there aren’t more comments on this. ICYMI 2: And here’s [continue reading]
A panel of nationally recognized curators, local arts professionals and community members from the Regional Connector project area in downtown Los Angeles has selected seven artists to create site-specific, integrated artworks for [continue reading]
A ceremonial naming and lowering of the tunnel boring machine that will dig the twin tunnels for the Regional Connector project in downtown L.A. was held today in Little Tokyo [continue reading]
Reminder: Telephone Town Hall on Measure M tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. More info here. Sportsy things: The Dodgers (jinx!) would play the Cubs at Dodger Stadium next Tuesday, Wednesday and possibly Thursday for the privilege of advancing to November. Yep, lots of Dodger Stadium Express service from Union Station [continue reading]
Regional Connector Constructors (RCC) work crews under contract to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) will begin a series of full weekend closures along Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles between 3rd and 5th streets in order to perform cut and cover/decking activities for the Regional Connector Transit [continue reading]
The Regional Connector project last week entered a new phase of construction—known as ‘steady state’—at the future underground 1st/Central Station in Little Tokyo. Construction at the easternmost end of the Connector’s [continue reading]
