I posted yesterday about one of the toughest issues facing Metro: reducing the number of fatalities along the Blue Line. While there has been progress in this area — the number of train-motor vehicle collisions has dropped significantly — the agency wants to keep making the line as safe as [continue reading]
A 58-page color booklet of the long-range plan adopted by the Metro Board of Directors last October is now online. You can download or view a copy by clicking here. There’s nothing new in the document — but it’s a much more visual display of the plan for both the [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Don’t forget you can also follow the Metro Library on Facebook and Twitter. It’s come to this in Clayton County, Georgia, which is part of [continue reading]
In July of this summer, the Blue Line will turn 20 years old. The last streetcars rolled through Los Angeles in the early 1960s; it wasn’t until the Blue Line’s debut in 1990 that mass transit rail service returned to the region. In January, the Blue Line saw nearly 78,000 [continue reading]
A little news out of the Metro Board of Director’s planning committee meeting on Wednesday: A funding transfer agreement with the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority was moved to the full Metro Board for their consideration at next Thursday’s meeting. I know. That sounds like a bunch of bureaucratic [continue reading]
The Los Angeles Marathon has a new route again this year — this time running from Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica via downtown L.A., Hollywood and Beverly Hills. It’s a nice course. Previous versions of the race seemed to go out of their way to feature the ghastly nature of [continue reading]
This year’s California state budget saga took another turn on Tuesday, when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would veto the latest Democratic proposal. Part of that proposal was to preserve some state funding for mass transit. If that funding does not ultimately survive the budget process, it could cost Metro [continue reading]
Here’s a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by the Metro library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s home page. Where should the high-speed rail line stop in Burbank? State officials have one idea, city officials in Burbank have another, reports the Glendale News [continue reading]
The shovel, so to speak, hit the ground this morning as part of the planning process for the Crenshaw Line light rail project. Soil testing begun in order to determine what’s literally in the dirt, since a fair amount of it will be moved as part of the construction process. [continue reading]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood often doesn’t mince words — as people who attended last month’s town hall meeting with him at Metro headquarters already know. So when airline officials complained to him recently about so much federal money going to high-speed rail — which they view as potential competition [continue reading]
