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 Transportation Headlines online newspaper, which you can also access via email subscription (visit the newspaper site) or RSS feed. Major transit projects at risk due to [continue reading]
Photos by Gerald Hunter, via submission Street work on La Brea in Inglewood in recent days has churned up the old streetcar tracks that once carried the Number 5 line of the Los Angeles Railway from Hawthorne to Eagle Rock. A portion of the route included the future Crenshaw/LAX [continue reading]
Some readers may have been following a difficult issue for Metro in recent weeks. The U.S. Department of Labor has indicated that it believes that pension reform legislation in California (known as PEPRA) violates the collective bargaining rights under federal law of unions representing transit workers. As a result, Metro [continue reading]
A few ramp and lane closures are taking place this week due to a Caltrans project constructing a truck lane on the southbound I-5. Here’s the news release: The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) plans to implement the closures listed below as part of a project that is constructing a [continue reading]
With the Orange County’s “Bridge Bash” scheduled this weekend, don’t forget the I-405 Project’s Southbound freeway closure through the Sepulveda Pass scheduled Saturday night, Aug. 17. Three lanes of the northbound freeway also will be closed. Another directional closure is also planned the following Saturday as well. Here’s the construction [continue reading]
For those who were interested in yesterday's “then & now” post from Florence Avenue, below are a few more then & now photos taken along or near the alignment for the Crenshaw/LAX Line project (the project map is at the end of this post). One other note: all the streetcar [continue reading]
Habib Balian, the CEO of the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, has sent the update below to those following the project, which will extend the Gold Line for 11.5 miles from eastern Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border: Anyone that lives, works or drives by the Foothill Extension corridor [continue reading]
The top photo was taken in 1955 in front of Inglewood Park Cemetery on Florence Avenue. I took the bottom photo this afternoon from about the same spot, although I didn’t quite nail the exact framing as the ’55 photo. What else is different? At some point the streetcar tracks [continue reading]
Passing through Union Station after work today? Stop by and listen to some jazz. On Friday, the L.A. Sparks take on the Indiana Fever at Staples Center. The game starts at 8 p.m. Present your valid TAP card at the box office to save on tickets. (Metro Blue/Expo Line to Pico Station, Metro [continue reading]
