As many readers are surely aware, the ongoing studies to improve traffic in the area around the gap in the 710 freeway just finished their latest round of community meetings. Not surprisingly, the meetings got a lot of fur flying in some communities — the reason I wanted to post [continue reading]
Metro will host a series of seven SR-710 Community Liaison Council (CLCs) meetings starting August 6 through August 13, 2012. The purpose for the meetings is to provide members of the CLCs an overview of what was heard from the public and a detailed explanation on alternatives presented at the SR-710 [continue reading]
Measure R Extension: The big-ticket item at Thursday’s Board of Directors meeting is a scheduled vote on whether the Board wants to ask voters to extend the half-cent sales tax beyond its mid-2039 expiration date. Metro staff is proposing to extend the tax as a way to possibly accelerate all [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 Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. Authority puts $1.75 million toward Metrolink station at Bob Hope [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 Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. Do Joss Whedon’s kids go to Beverly Hills High School? (L.A. Times) The video made [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-31REdmfq8&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] Very cool video released today of the ongoing construction work on the bridge that will carry Gold Line Foothill Extension tracks over the eastbound lanes of the 210 freeway in Arcadia. The project, funded by Measure R, is being built by the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority. The [continue reading]
Below is the news release from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the independent agency building the Measure R-funded project, including the bridge that will carry the tracks from the 210 freeway median across the eastbound lanes toward the downtown Arcadia station: MONROVIA – The I-210 Gold Line Bridge, [continue reading]
Wow – some good news out of Washington D.C. for the Foothill Extension project, which will extend the current Gold Line from Pasadena for 11.5 miles to the Azusa/Glendora border. It’s great news because transit planners are always fretting — rightfully — on how to solve the “first mile-last mile” [continue reading]
Cool sequence of photos taken early Tuesday morning on the 210 freeway as part of the construction of the “Iconic Bridge” for the Gold Line Foothill Extension, a key Measure R project. Here’s the update on the work from Foothill Extension Construction Authority CEO Habib Balian: Early this morning, work [continue reading]
Two big news items this afternoon for a key Measure R transit project, the Foothill Extension that will take the Gold Line from its current terminus for 11.5 miles to the Azusa/Glendora border: 1. After months of negotiations, the Foothill Extension Construction Authority has reached an agreement to purchase land [continue reading]
