Fresh pics: Crenshaw/LAX Line construction
Click on a photo to see larger version. Harriet continues digging south under Crenshaw Boulevard and arrived at the Martin Luther King Jr. station this week. Harriet will now take [continue reading]
How We Roll, February 6: Go Metro to see your Los Angeles Chargers play the San Diego Raiders!
More on football and transit at the bottom. The Carson Chargers get to play the Patriots and Tom Brady in New England next season, btw. Art of Transit: https://twitter.com/annanotation/status/828659547308822528 Anna’s working on a separate post about her glimpse into the future. Or one possible future. ICYMI, looks like 10 of [continue reading]
New video: Regional Connector’s tunneling machine arrives at 1st/Central station
The Regional Connector’s tunnel boring machine (Angeli, as she’s known around these parts) has arrived at the 1st St/Central Avenue Station site in Little Tokyo. After lowering the machine one [continue reading]
2016: two rail openings, bike share, a ballot measure and a very busy year for Metro
This was my seventh year at the agency and, by far, 2016 was the busiest. I usually like to put the end-of-the-year highlights in chronological order but I think four [continue reading]
How We Roll, Dec. 22: big rigs vs 210, Musk vs traffic, partially automated cars vs people
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]
Fresh pics! Crenshaw/LAX Line work
Harriet Begins Excavating Northbound Tunnel for Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project The Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project has reached 53 percent completion, according to Project Director Charles Beauvoir. The projected opening date for the [continue reading]
Video: Regional Connector tunneling machine lowered part by part into the launch pit
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]
How We Roll, Oct. 21: terrifying earthmunchers; traffic vs transit (again); more rail to Burbank?
Hey Dodgers 1: Follow the Sparks lead… Cutting down the nets! 2016 WNBA Champions! #WeRise #ComeWatchUsWork #GoSparks pic.twitter.com/t0lBt5yZF4 — Los Angeles Sparks (@LASparks) October 21, 2016 Hey Dodgers 2: If all goes as planned, the Dodger Stadium Express returns to service for Games 3 and 4 of the World Series [continue reading]
Harriet the tunnel boring machine reaches Crenshaw/LAX Line’s Leimert Park Station
For your use: high-res pics here. And there it is, shortly after 9:15 a.m. on Thursday. This means that one of the twin tunnels on the northern part of the [continue reading]
Ceremony: tunnel boring machine named and lowered for Regional Connector
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]