The Infrastructurist offers up a list of the 10 most expensive transit projects in the U.S. over the past decade — although the website reserves judgment on whether the cost was worth it. Not surprisingly, all of them are rail lines. The Red Line subway clocked in at No. 5 [continue reading]
There was a fairly sizable ceremony held today at Evergreen Cemetery to dedicate a memorial wall for remains of immigrants found during construction of the Eastside Gold Line Extension. The remains were first discovered in June 2005 at First and Lorena streets in Boyle Heights. Construction was halted and ultimately [continue reading]
The headline of the LA Weekly story is certainly provocative: “Black Lung Lofts.” The story focuses on whether residential housing should be built adjacent to freeways in Los Angeles despite studies that have shown that poor air quality near the roads impacts childrens’ health. As the headline indicates, the Weekly [continue reading]
I received an interesting email from Browne Molyneux of the Bus Bench blog this afternoon. I thought Browne asked me a perfectly appropriate question, given that I work for a mass transit agency. I, however, disagreed with how she asked it. Here’s her email: Greetings Steve, Writing a post about [continue reading]
It’s time to catch up on reader email again. If you have a thought worth sharing, always feel free to email us at thesource@metro.net Metro recently received word that the Federal Transit Administration declined to provide $77 million in funding for preliminary engineering on the Westside Subway Extension and the [continue reading]
There will be no Blue Line service in downtown Los Angeles between the Washington station and 7th/Metro Center on the next two weekends from 9 p.m. Friday night through early Monday morning. Buses will instead run between the Washington and 7th/Metro stops. The service disruption is due to ongoing work [continue reading]
View Subway planning in a larger map The team of Metro staffers that are planning the Westside Subway Extension are holding a meeting on March 17 to discuss a significant issue: should the subway have a station at Wilshire and Crenshaw boulevards? Stations cost about $200 million to build and [continue reading]
The situation involving the Gold Line’s Allen station and the maintenance yard have been resolved and regular service is back up and running.
Police are investigating a suspicious package at the station and a bus bridge has been requested to run between the Lake and Sierra Madre Villa stations. There are also service disruptions on the Gold Line between Chinatown and Lincoln Heights. The best way to receive live updates is to follow [continue reading]
Jung Gatoona at Plus Metro didn’t like the way pedestrians access the Little Tokyo Gold Line station, believing it wasn’t as safe as it could be (some pedestrians have to cross tracks twice). So he blogged about it at Plus Metro — earning him some attention on The Source — [continue reading]
