Source Readers: Here’s the latest release from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, which is building the 11.5-mile extension from Pasadena to Azusa. Construction on the Measure R project is expected to be completed in early 2015, at which point the authority will turn the line over to Metro [continue reading]
Good morning, readers. I’m in Santa Monica at the groundbreaking for the second phase of the Expo Line, a key Measure R-funded project. We’ll have a complete story later after the event.
Metro’s government relations staff wrote the following update on the job creation package proposed by President Barack Obama on Thursday. My quick take: it appears there will be more transportation money on the table — if Congress approves the package. However, it remains to be seen how much of those [continue reading]
Here is the description of President Obama’s speech to Congress tonight from Metro’s government relations staff: Moments ago, President Obama delivered remarks before a joint session of Congress in which he outlined his plan to jumpstart America’s economy. The President’s plan, delivered with the national unemployment rate standing at 9.1%, [continue reading]
There’s a lot of talk about infrastructure needs and jobs these days. President Barack Obama will address both Thursday evening, with L.A. Mayor and Metro Board Chair Antonio Villaraigosa in the audience. It will certainly be a closely watched speech here at Metro as the agency hopes to hear the [continue reading]
Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell was pegged as the lunchtime keynote speaker at Mobility 21 — for good reason. These days, Rendell is one of the leading voices for increased infrastructure investment, serving as one of three co-chairs of the Building America’s Future coalition along with former California Governor Arnold [continue reading]
We’re blogging this morning live from the Mobility 21 Conference in downtown Los Angeles, where more than 1,000 public and private sector people in the transportation industry have gathered. Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Antonio Villaraigosa took center stage during the morning’s events with a speech and subsequent [continue reading]
As many of you know, the great ongoing debate in Washington and many state capitals across the nation revolves around this question: what’s the best way to create jobs and spur the economy? Is it to downsize government, allowing for lower taxes and more money in individuals’ pockets? Or is [continue reading]
As we noted in May, Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus had plans to shake up its service to improve connections with Metro Rail. Well those changes — detailed here [PDF] — went live on Sunday and there’s some good news for Metro riders. The BBB has extended the eastern terminus of [continue reading]
As many of you know, a multiyear federal transportation bill was last approved by Congress in 2005. The followup to that bill should have been signed into law in 2009 but Congress has never been able to agree on the size and scope of the bill. So nothing has [continue reading]
