The commuter railroad Metrolink — which is funded in part by Metro — announced Friday that David Solow was being replaced as chief executive and that Solow was moving to another position overseeing implementation of a new safety system for the agency. The official press release from Metrolink is after [continue reading]
Not to wonk out on your first thing in the a.m., but I couldn’t help but nod in agreement reading a commentary in the New Republic about the need to ensure that federal stimulus funding is spent well at local levels. One example the authors use is the inability of [continue reading]
Although moving ahead on the Crenshaw Line project was the big news out of yesterday’s Metro Board of Director’s meeting, there was one other item voted on near the end of the meeting worth mentioning. The Board also extended labor contracts with four unions until June 30, 2010 (see item [continue reading]
The Los Angeles Times ran a story on Tuesday headlined “Expo Line project costs and delays are ballooning; The rail line from downtown L.A. to Culver City is $220 million over budget and a year behind schedule. Officials hope to open part of the route next year.” As I posted [continue reading]
After talking about upgrading mass transit for a quarter-century, the Metro Board of Directors unanimously selected light rail as the best alternative for Crenshaw Boulevard on Thursday. The vote by the Metro Board means that the project now advances to its final environmental study phase. As part of its vote, [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors just voted to launch a draft environmental study of extending the Green Line 4.6 miles from Redondo Beach to the Torrance Regional Transit Center and to call the project the South Bay Green Line Extension. Several elected officials from the South Bay spoke in favor [continue reading]
On item 13 on today’s agenda, the Board of Directors asked Metro staff to further study if there’s a way to install four-quadrant crossing gates on the Eastside Gold Line without doing a full-blown environmental impact report and/or study. Staff had recommended hiring a contractor to do the environmental work. [continue reading]
The December meeting of the Metro Board of Directors has begun and it’s a packed house here at One Gateway. Most of the crowd appears to be here for the vote on the Crenshaw line. The Board is set to vote today on the Metro staff recommendation on making Crenshaw [continue reading]
I posted a link to a column by Joel Epstein in the Huffington Post the other day. In his column, Joel wrote that Metro should be pushing hard to find corporations or other entities to pick up the cost of subway stations and other transit infrastructure — kind of like [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors meets Thursday morning at Metro headquarters and votes are on tap on two big issues: The Crenshaw Line and the Harbor Subdivision. Let’s tackle Crenshaw first. In November, Metro staff recommended that the Crenshaw Line be a light rail line and also picked a route [continue reading]
