Metro dedicated the opening of its first rail line since 2003 on Saturday morning, as a long list of elected officials and invited guests celebrated the opening of the Eastside Gold Line Extension between Los Angeles Union Station and East Los Angeles. The Eastside hadn’t seen rail service since the [continue reading]
I wanted to call your attention to a very lengthy post put up at LA.Streetsblog late this afternoon. Damien Newton, the editor of the site, went on a bike ride along the Eastside Gold Line Extension today with five other cyclists to study safety issues concerning the line. Overall, Newton [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy sent an email to staff earlier this afternoon. Here’s the text of the email: CPUC Grants Safety Certification for the Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension Metro received a letter from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) granting us a Safety Certification for the Metro Gold Line [continue reading]
As would be expected, the talk around One Gateway this week has mostly revolved around the debut of the Eastside Gold Line Extension this weekend. We’ll be supplying coverage both Saturday and Sunday here at The Source. The official dedication ceremony is being held tomorrow morning, when a plethora of [continue reading]
Lost in all the hub-bub surrounding the opening of the Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension this weekend is the not-so-small fact that Metro also has another rail line under construction — the Expo Line between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City. Unfortunately, that means there’s work to be done. In [continue reading]
Como integrante del equipo de prensa de Metro, José Ubaldo ha estado trabajando en el proyecto de la extensión de la Línea de Oro del Metro por varios años. Con la línea finalmente inaugurada este fin de semana, aquí hay algunas observaciones de José acerca de la línea. La traducción [continue reading]
A few of the headlines hoovered up by the Metro library that caught my eye this morning: The Wilson Quarterly has a good article about bullet trains and the lack of them in the United States. An excerpt: This gap only widens in the rest of Amtrak’s 22,000-mile nationwide network. [continue reading]
At a recent meeting with the Eagle Rock Assn., Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar — who is also a member of the Metro Board of Directors — was asked for his views on the proposed tunnel to close the gap in the 710 freeway between the Alhambra-L.A. border and [continue reading]
I’ve long argued that when planning mass transit, the most important thing to many people — especially those who have the option to drive — is to make sure that mass transit is competitive time-wise with the car. That’s why I encourage all transit planners to read Lina Chung’s opinion [continue reading]
I posted yesterday that Metro staffers have released their recommendation that the future Crenshaw line be a light rail line that runs between Exposition Boulevard and the Green Line, with a key stop adjacent to LAX. The line is scheduled to open by 2018, according to the long-range plan recently [continue reading]
