An interesting development today: Rick Thorpe, Metro’s chief capital management officer, resigned from his position at Metro. Thorpe, however, is staying on as the CEO of the Expo Line Construction Authority. In his Metro job, Thorpe was in charge of overseeing (among other things) the rail projects that Metro is [continue reading]
My colleague Fred Dennstedt and I had a chance to ride the new Eastside Gold Line Extension from Union Station to East Los Angeles and back this afternoon. Here are our impressions:
After a long career with Metro, the agency’s chief planning officer Carol Inge announced this week that she will be retiring at the end of the year. Carol is certainly leaving on a high note: last week the Metro Board unanimously adopted a $300-billion long-range plan that was assembled by [continue reading]
My colleague Fred Dennstedt and I are headed off later this morning for our first ride on the Eastside Gold Line Extension. Local media are getting a preview ride on Friday, but as proud Metro contractors we get to see it before them. Neener-neener! We’ll post our impressions later today. [continue reading]
The accompanying video was produced by Metro as part of the public outreach effort for the Westside Subway Extension environmental study currently underway. The study is looking at options for extending the subway west from its current terminus at Wilshire and Western and another option that would add a spur [continue reading]
Let me guess: As you sit here reading this today you’re probably not exactly obsessed with measures that might appear on the 2010 November ballot. Nonetheless, for those interested in transit, there’s an interesting measure in the works. The California Transit Assn. (known as the CTA), which represents transit agencies [continue reading]
In a post yesterday I wrote that the bus shuttle from the U2 show at the Rose Bowl on Sunday night was a very mixed bag. Getting to the concert was fine; waiting in the ridiculously disorganized line in fenced corrals to travel from the Rose Bowl to Pasadena City [continue reading]
Here are today’s transpo headlines, courtesy of the Metro library. The Pasadena Star-News reports that a lawsuit filed by South Pasadena and La Canada against Metro was recently thrown out. The issue was the 710, with both cities saying that it was wrong for Metro to include the 710 gap [continue reading]
With the Eastside Gold Line Extension now scheduled to open to the public on Nov. 15, here’s a short video of trains on the line. The video shows trains on 1st Street between the Los Angeles River and the tunnel the trains will enter to go under Boyle Heights.
Metro extended rail and busway service early Monday morning to accommodate fans heading home from U2’s sold out show at the Rose Bowl on Sunday night. I didn’t take the train. I live in Pasadena and jumped on a shuttle bus from Pasadena City College. The bus to the show [continue reading]
