Notice to proceed issued for section 2 of Purple Line Extension!
This is a bit on the procedural side but still a nice little milestone: Metro on Wednesday issued a “notice to proceed” to Tutor Perini/O & G to begin work building [continue reading]
Bones belonging to ancient camel and mammoth or mastodon — found during work on Purple Line Extension
Metro Purple Line Extension workers excavating the future subway station at Wilshire and La Brea Avenue in L.A.’s Miracle Mile District have unearthed the station’s second Ice Age fossils: a [continue reading]
Open house this Saturday on North Hollywood joint development
[scribd id=343931694 key=key-TxcmvugAVBrtgm8v7t0Y mode=scroll] Metro staff will hold an open house this Saturday in North Hollywood to discuss plans for a joint development on 15.6 acres of agency-owned land adjacent [continue reading]
Tunneling machines for Purple Line Extension under construction in Germany
The Purple Line Extension is expecting twin tunnel boring machines, but they will not arrive in Los Angeles until this fall. The TBMs will be lowered into the ground in [continue reading]
How We Roll, March 27: If you were the Dark Lord of the freeways, how would you rule them?
Art of Transit: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (@metrolosangeles) More CicLAvia pics here, btw. L.A. will consider tighter rules for carpool and toll lanes (LAT) The Metro Board voted 11 to 1 last week to ask for a study [continue reading]
Jet grouting along Wilshire Boulevard prepares soil for subway tunneling
By Ned Racine No longer a distant goal, the digging of the Purple Line Extension subway tunnels is anticipated to begin in approximately one year. One sign of the tunnels’ approach [continue reading]
$1.6B in fed funding for subway extension!
A federal grant and loan totaling nearly $1.6 billion to help build the second phase of the Metro Purple Line Extension to downtown Beverly Hills and Century City was announced [continue reading]
Below Wilshire, a subway station is being dug
Three pretty good new pics of the working taking place under Wilshire to excavate the future Wilshire/La Brea Station for the Purple Line Extension. The first segment of the project [continue reading]
How We Roll, August 4: Expo Line news, transit and the Olympics
Expo Line and Gold Line update: We’re well aware of some of the crowding that riders have experienced in recent weeks on the Expo Line and Gold Line. Some good news [continue reading]
Decking for Wilshire/La Brea subway station begins third phase this weekend
The early work on construction of the new Purple Line subway station at the Wilshire and La Brea is moving along at a nice clip — see the recent pics [continue reading]