State officials are still announcing details of the proposed state budget to close a $19.9-billion deficit in the current and next year’s budget. Here’s what the L.A. Times is reporting about the budget’s impact on public transportation: One of the proposed budget’s biggest losers is public transit — and its [continue reading]
Several media outlets are already reporting that public transit funds will be slashed as part of the state budget that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will announce later this morning. Here’s a link to a story posted online by the L.A. Times today. The story says mass transit will face cuts, but [continue reading]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood doesn’t disagree with the selection of “distracted driving” as the word of the year for 2009 by the Webster’s New College Dictionary. And he wants 2010 to be the year that problem is put to rest. I appreciate his optimism but I think it’s going [continue reading]
Planning for the extension of the subway to Westwood takes a small step forward next week when that truck at the right — the minivb — will begin seismic testing for the subway project. The subway extension is set to receive more than $4 billion from the Measure R sales [continue reading]
Caltrans put out a press release Thursday with revised hours and locations for the night-time closures next week on the 405 freeway as part of the project to build a carpool lane between the Santa Monica Freeway and the Ventura Freeway. The release: CORRECTION Northbound I-405 FULL FREEWAY CLOSURES TO [continue reading]
If you’re thinking of driving to Pasadena for tonight’s BCS title game, just a reminder that light rail and shuttle service is available. Here are details from a post yesterday on The Source. One other tip: if you don’t want to deal with driving to Pasadena, you can park at [continue reading]
It’s always fun to start the day reading someone really take it to “the man.” And Damien Newton does just that at L.A. Streetsblog, explaining his issues with the city of Los Angeles’ bike master plan. He writes: “I am worried that this isn’t really what can be considered a [continue reading]
Here’s the press release from Caltrans, hot off the presses. The project involves building a carpool lane on the northbound 405 from the Santa Monica Freeway to the Ventura Freeway. The release: FULL FREEWAY CLOSURES TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK ON I-405 WEST LOS ANGELES – The California Department of Transportation [continue reading]
As you probably know, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered his State of the State address this morning in Sacramento. It’s a runup to his release of the state budget on Friday — a budget that Metro officials are closely watching to see what, if any, the impacts are on public transportation [continue reading]
One of our New Year’s Resolutions for the Source is to publish reader email on a more frequent basis — ideally we would like to get enough interesting comments to publish them once each week. Send comments to thesource@metro.net. Here is this week’s edition: Riders and transit advocates have been [continue reading]
