What better way to spend a gloomy morning than contemplating federal transportation bills? The Hill takes a look at the progress — or lack thereof — of the next massive federal transportation bill. The last such bill, providing $286 billion in funding, was signed into law by President Bush in [continue reading]
The National Transportation Safety Board is meeting this morning in Washington D.C. to consider a draft of the final report on the Sept. 2008 Metrolink accident in Chatsworth that killed 25 people when a Metrolink train collided head-on with a Union Pacific freight train. The draft report concludes that the [continue reading]
The rain keeps falling and as a result construction work on adding a carpool lane to the northbound 405 over the Sepulveda Pass has been postponed for both Wednesday and Thursday nights. On a related note, there’s an open house being held this afternoon about the project at the Westwood [continue reading]
A new report that updates the planning progress on the Westside Subway Extension is being presented to the Metro Board of Directors this month. Work on the draft environmental impact report is now 60% complete, according to the report. Other news in the report: *The subway planning team at Metro [continue reading]
Enjoying the rain? Look at the bright side: construction work on the northbound 405 carpool lane project has been postponed for Tuesday night due to the inclement weather. Construction updates are available on the project’s page on the Metro website and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/I_405. I’m writing this post at [continue reading]
It’s hard not to be a grumpy bear when it rains like this, so naturally I started my morning with a story from the San Diego Union-Tribune about the roll-out there of plastic, reusable fare cards that are tapped against machines that read them. Riders don’t seem to like them [continue reading]
A dog capable of sniffing out chemical and biological weapons that will be used in Los Angeles County was introduced at a press event this morning by officials from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and Metro. The dog, a 17-month-old black lab named Johnny Ringo, can detect anthrax, ricin and [continue reading]
Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, no construction activity or closures will take place on the I-405 Sepulveda Pass widening project Friday night through Monday night. Work is currently scheduled to resume Tuesday, Jan. 19 in the same area as last night’s work between the Santa Monica [continue reading]
Metrolink posted this on their website at 2:15 this afternoon. If you’re headed over to Union Station, there could be short delays and it’s also wise to check which track your train is leaving from — a few trains were shifted earlier. Update as of 2:15 pm A test train [continue reading]
It’s time for another edition of reader email to The Source. If you would like to comment on a post or have something transit-related you need to get off your chest, please email us at thesource@metro.net Michael Setty took issue with the state budget proposal by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that [continue reading]
