Rampture — the extended 90-day closure of selected Wilshire Boulevard ramps at the 405 originally scheduled to begin in November as part of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project — has been officially postponed to early next year. This may bring a collective sigh of relief from Westside commuters already [continue reading]
A new round of directional freeway closures in the Sepulveda Pass area are planned for the 405 project beginning next Monday, Oct. 24 for four nights, weather permitting. Workers will be performing bridge and freeway sign replacement work. As usual for these types of freeway closures, Sepulveda Boulevard is the [continue reading]
The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements contractor will need to perform additional utility relocation work along the Skirball Bridge in Los Angeles, work that will require the closure of the bridge on a nightly basis for approximately three months between the hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. beginning Thursday, Oct. [continue reading]
A couple of Source readers commented on our blog post last week about new busway bridges now being built on Metro’s Orange Line Extension Project. Readers wanted to know whether the new bridges over the L.A. River, the Santa Susana Wash and Lassen Street were being built strong enough to [continue reading]
Construction workers place concrete for the bridge deck of the Orange Line Extension’s L.A. River Bridge. Photo credits: Perla Berry In the latest sign of construction progress for the Metro Orange Line Extension Project, work crews this week poured the deck for the busway’s bridge over the Los Angeles River [continue reading]
The second phase of Sunset Bridge reconstruction work for the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project is scheduled to begin October 15 and last for two weeks. Work will require the weekday morning closure of the southbound 405 Sunset Boulevard freeway off-ramp beginning Monday, October 17. Motorists will have to utilize [continue reading]
As planning and preliminary engineering continues to unfold for the Regional Connector project, Metro is evaluating different options for the three new stations — including building two of the stations with one entrance instead of two. The Little Tokyo Station is still configured to include two entrances to accommodate a [continue reading]
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, flanked by a host of city, Metrolink and CicLAvia officials, held a press conference this morning at Union Station to promote Sunday’s CicLAvia event, calling it an opportunity for Angelinos to reclaim L.A.’s public space from the automobile. “We are reclaiming public space that we paid for [continue reading]
The city of South Pasadena has made big plans to become more bike-friendly. The city just announced that it intends to build more than 24 miles of connecting bikeways that will create a citywide bicycle network to connect schools, library, parks, shops, the Metro Gold Line and Metro bus stops. [continue reading]
The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project contractor will reconstruct all approaches to the Sunset Boulevard Bridge that spans the 405 freeway in West Los Angeles, a construction activity that will require two separate phased 14-day ramp and roadway closures beginning Sept. 30. Motorists should anticipate delays and are encouraged to [continue reading]
