The Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority held a luncheon and workshop in Glendora on Friday to update the status of the project for supporters. The Authority also debuted the design for one of the first big pieces of infrastructure on the line — a bridge over the eastbound lanes [continue reading]
A new subway line running under Barcelona — and connecting to the city’s airport — opened its first five stations earlier this month. With the subway extension being planned on the Westside, I thought you may enjoy playing around with the three links below to powerpoint presentations about the new [continue reading]
Let’s start the holiday week in Sin City — where else? — with a fun story by Metropolis Magazine taking a critical look at the monorail that is supposed to serve the Las Vegas Strip but is mostly out-of-view and slow. The author’s conclusion: if you’re trying to get around [continue reading]
The final environmental document for Phase 2 of the Expo Line light rail project from Culver City to Santa Monica was released today with several key changes. The entire final environmental impact report is on the Expo Line Construction Authority website and a press release from the Authority is after [continue reading]
Metro has released ridership numbers for November and there’s relatively little news to report. Rail ridership across the system increased slightly from Nov. 2008 — due to the opening of the Eastside Gold Line Extension — and bus ridership dipped from one year earlier. Metro officials believe the weak economy [continue reading]
Remember all those stories about soaring mass transit use in the summer of 2008, when gas prices soared? Well, here are the first two paragraphs of a story published by the New York Times: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a punishing slate of service cuts on Wednesday that would amount [continue reading]
As I posted last month, the funding game for the Westside Subway Extension and the Downtown Regional Connector projects was shifting from Los Angeles County to Washington D.C. Now it’s official. Earlier this month, Metro CEO Art Leahy submitted a formal request for $77.6 million to the federal government, with [continue reading]
Warm-up your eyeballs. A lot of really good transpo stories out there today. The L.A. Times’ Rich Connell reports that Metrolink and other commuter railroads sought and were granted a federal waiver more than a decade ago to bypass a rule requiring them to post speed limit signs in certain [continue reading]
I’m back from a few days of intense study of the water quantity content of snowflakes in the Eastern Sierra and found all sorts of goodies in this morning’s transportation headlines, compiled by the Metro library. If you’re looking to ease your brain into the workday, I would start with [continue reading]
In the cosmic scheme of things, it’s not a lot of money, but the House of Representatives has set aside $250,000 for further study of a streetcar system in downtown Los Angeles, according to a press release issued by L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar. The project is still very much in [continue reading]
