Today is the final day for the public to submit official comments on the draft environmental impact statement/report (DEIS/R) for both projects. For the Westside Subway Extension, here’s the online public comment form. The DEIS/R is here. For the Regional Connector, here’s the online public comment form. The DEIS/R is [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. Beverly Hills remains ‘strongly concerned’ about Westside Subway Extension route (Beverly Hills Patch) Mayor Jimmy Delshad writes a letter to Supervisor Don [continue reading]
Attentive readers know that Metro staff this week issued their recommended route for the Westside Subway Extension: basically a route that follows Wilshire Boulevard west, swings south to Century City and then back to Wilshire and ending at a station near the VA Hospital in Westwood. Staff also said that [continue reading]
Metro staff have issued their recommendations for a locally preferred alternative (LPA) route for the Westside Subway Extension. The project’s draft environmental impact statement/report was released last month. The full report is posted as part of the Metro Board of Directors’ agendas for its planning and Measure R committees. It [continue reading]
Here is video of some remarks that President Barack Obama made on Monday following his meeting at the White House about improving transportation infrastructure. As we posted yesterday, Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Director Antonio Villaraigosa attended the meeting to discuss the 30/10 Initiative, Metro’s plan to build a dozen [continue reading]
I found these four maps in one of the appendices of the Regional Connector’s draft environmental impact statement/report. I posted them because they’re kind of interesting — it’s a chance to see both population and job density around some of Metro’s current and future transit lines in the years 2005 [continue reading]
With Metro’s Westside Subway Extension Project team just wrapping up a series of five public hearings on the project’s Draft EIS/R, it has a new feather to place in its cap. The project’s public outreach program was this week officially recognized as an example of government innovation from Harvard University. [continue reading]
I attended the public hearing Monday night in Beverly Hills for the Westside Subway Extension’s draft environmental impact statetment/report. It was pretty clear that among the more than 200 people who attended, the vast majority opposed a subway station from being built at Constellation and Avenue of the Stars in [continue reading]
Below is the schedule for the final two public hearings on the subway’s draft environmental impact statement/report, or DEIR/S for the acronym-minded reader. As you might expect, the subject of tunneling under private properties will be discussed at tonight’s hearing in Beverly Hills, which is being live-streamed beginning at 6 [continue reading]
The L.A. Weekly on Wednesday published a story headlined “$9 Billion Subway-to-Sea Rip-off.” The story suggests that the Westside Subway Extension project is a ripoff because it won’t fix traffic congestion in the region. I’d like to offer readers some corrections and clarifications, and also provide information omitted from the [continue reading]
