$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]
Latest update on Purple Line subway construction
[scribd id=326408764 key=key-ktIZm11s26akU28mhZYh mode=scroll] Above is the latest update on construction of the Purple Line Extension’s first section between Wilshire/Western and the future Wilshire/La Cienega Station in Beverly Hills. There [continue reading]
How We Roll, Sept. 7: Crenshaw North routes, Uber’s future, random stuff
Measure M News: There was considerable press coverage of a court ruling Tuesday that upheld the ballot language of Measure M, Metro’s sales tax ballot measure that goes to voters [continue reading]
Listen: Telephone Town Halls — South L.A. and L.A.’s Westside
https://soundcloud.com/metrolosangeles/telephone-town-hall-11-south-los-angeles Above and below is the audio from Monday night’s Telephone Town Halls (TTH) on Metro’s potential ballot measure. There are two more remaining: Wednesday, May 18, 6:15 p.m.: Sheila Kuehl, L.A County Supervisor representing the Third Supervisorial district, will talk to residents of the cities of Agoura Hills, Beverly [continue reading]
How We Roll, May 11: will Expo2 change the course of human history?!
Things to listen to whilst transiting: Art of Transit: Watch the first passenger train travel from downtown L.A. to Santa Monica in 60 years (Gizmodo) Actually, 63 years. Nice piece [continue reading]
Listen: Telephone Town Halls for South Bay, Westside and Gateway Cities
https://soundcloud.com/metrolosangeles/telephone-town-hall-3-south-bay-and-westside Above and below please find the Telephone Town Hall (TTH) meetings that Metro held last Thursday to discuss the agency’s potential ballot measure. Here’s the transcript for the South Bay and Westside TTH. And here’s the transcript for the Gateway Cities TTH. The meetings continue tonight: •6:15 p.m.: Stephanie Wiggins, Metro’s Deputy [continue reading]
How We Roll, May 4: Expo parking and predicting future of ride hailing
Reminder: Telephone Town Halls on the potential ballot measure begin tonight with Metro Board Chair Mark Ridley-Thomas talking to residents of Carson, Compton, Culver City, Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lynwood, the communities of South Los Angeles, Koreatown, and portions of West Los Angeles. More info here about calling in. Things to [continue reading]
How We Roll: would the Expo Line have won KPCC’s bike-car-transit race to SaMo?
Art of Transit: Things to listen to whilst transiting — Judge John Hodgman live at SF Sketchfest All the cases heard before a live audience are funny. But the capper [continue reading]
And another heads up! More testing on Expo Line between Culver City and SaMo
This is a continuation of the ongoing testing program. Please be careful around trains, especially on the street-running segment along Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica. And before you ask…no, we don’t [continue reading]
First pile installation for Purple Line Extension
The first pile was lowered into the ground on Tuesday for the Purple Line Extension near the intersection of Wilshire and La Brea — specifically on Wilshire between La Brea and Detroit [continue reading]