Good news — the final environmental study for the Regional Connector project — to link the Blue, Gold and future Expo lines — is almost done. The project team has scheduled three meetings to talk about some of the issues they’re working on. Here’s the announcement: Metro is currently completing [continue reading]
The Los Angeles Chapter of the Urban Land Institute held a conference in Pasadena on Thursday to discuss transit-oriented development in the greater-L.A. area. The aim of the conference was to figure out a way to put more development around transit hubs. It’s a strategy embraced in many places to [continue reading]
The Connector will link the Gold Line to the Blue Line and the future Expo Line so that passengers can travel through downtown without having to transfer. Here’s the latest news release from Metro, which is planning the line: Over the next two weeks, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation [continue reading]
A wireline coring drill rig that will be in action in downtown L.A. over the next couple of weeks. Here’s the news release from Metro, which is in the planning stages on the Measure R project to link the Gold Line to the Blue Line and future Expo Line in [continue reading]
Here’s the news release: Starting Monday, April 25, 2011, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) will begin conducting geotechnical tests at multiple locations along the planned alignment of the downtown Regional Connector project as part of the planning and engineering for the project. The initial geotechnical work in [continue reading]
As of the noon hour here in Los Angeles, the members of Congress had not reached a budget deal — making the likelihood of a partial shutdown of the federal government on Saturday. Below is a letter sent by Federal Transit Administration chief Peter Rogoff to Metro and other transit [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. A chance to build again (New York Times) In an editorial, the Times calls for the creation of an infrastructure bank to provide loans [continue reading]
President Barack Obama on Monday released his 2012 budget, which included his priorities for transportation spending. One area of particular concern for Metro is New Starts funding — the program run by the Federal Transit Administration to help local areas pay for big, pricey transit projects. The good news is [continue reading]
President Barack Obama on Monday released his budget for the next fiscal year, including his vision for transportation spending. Of course, this is only the start of the budget story because Congress also has a pretty big say on what dollars do — and do not — go out the [continue reading]
In this relatively new feature for The Source, I express actual opinions while working for government. Members of the media: please take any of these ideas and run with them — we could use the coverage! 1. I think it’s good news to hear that Caltrans is beginning scoping work [continue reading]
