Here’s the news release:

Metro will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, March 1, and a public hearing on Thursday, March 31, to update the community and to receive verbal comments on the evaluation process of the proposed maintenance facility sites for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Light Rail Project.

Metro staff is analyzing four sites for the development of a new maintenance facility, which will be used to store, maintain, repair, and clean light rail vehicles. The four sites are located in the cities of Los Angeles, Inglewood, Hawthorne and Redondo Beach. Metro staff will also update the community on an analysis of parklands and historic resources.

The meetings will take place at,

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Flight Path Learning Center

6661 West Imperial Highway

Los Angeles, CA 90045

(Served by Beach City Transit Line 109 with connections at the Metro Green Line Aviation/LAX Station)

Open House/Public Hearing

Thursday, March 31, 2011

6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Inglewood City Hall

Community Room A, First Floor

One West Manchester Blvd.

Inglewood, CA 90301

(Served by Metro Bus Lines 40, 111, 115, 212 and 740)

The Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement/ Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report (SDEIS/ RDEIR) is now available for review and public input and will be posted under Reports and Info at www.metro.net/crenshaw. It is also available at the Metro Transportation Library at One Gateway Plaza, 15th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012 and at the following public libraries near the corridor.

Westchester-Loyola Library

7114 W. Manchester Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90045

Main Library

101 W. Manchester Blvd.

Inglewood, CA 90301

Lennox Library

4359 Lennox Blvd.

Lennox, CA 90304

El Segundo Public Library

111 W. Mariposa Avenue

El Segundo, CA 90245

Hawthorne Library

12700 Grenvillea Avenue

Hawthorne, CA 90250

Wiseburn Library

5335 W. 135th St.

Hawthorne, CA 90250

The New North Branch

2000 Artesia Blvd.

Redondo Beach, CA 90278

The deadline for comments is April 11, 2011 by 5 pm. Comments can be made at the hearing, mailed to Roderick Diaz, Project Manager, Metro, One Gateway Plaza, 99-22-3, Los Angeles CA 90012 or e-mailed to diazroderick@metro.net.

Special accommodations and information in alternative formats are available to the public. All requests for reasonable accommodations must be made three working days (72 hours) in advance of the scheduled meeting date. Please contact Bronwen Trice at (213) 922-4465 or triceb@metro.net or call the California Relay Service at 711.

The Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor is an 8.5 mile light rail line that will extend from the intersection of Exposition and Crenshaw boulevards to the Metro Green Line’s Aviation/LAX station. The project will serve the cities of Los Angeles, Inglewood, Hawthorne, and El Segundo and portions of the unincorporated Los Angeles County.