From the Department of Self-Promotion: I was on AirTalk with Larry Mantle on KPCC (89.3 FM) last Thursday, talking about the Regional Connector and touching on a few other subjects — such as the impact of transit on traffic. If you want to give it a listen, here’s the link.
The Metrolink Board of Directors approved a contract on Friday for a positive train control system to prevent future collisions. The press release from Metrolink is below; Metro is one of the five local transportation agencies that funds Metrolink. Positive Train Control Moves Ahead at Metrolink Board of Directors Authorizes [continue reading]
County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s website is reporting there will likely be a change of plans when it comes to tearing down the Mulholland Bridge as part of the project to add a northbound carpool lane to the 405 freeway over the Sepulveda Pass. Instead of first tearing down the bridge [continue reading]
The Board of Directors of Metrolink are scheduled Friday to vote on a contract worth up to $120 million for the installation of a positive train control system. The contract would be with Parsons Transportation Group. The technology was created to prevent trains from colliding. Metrolink has been pursuing such [continue reading]
With Metro’s Westside Subway Extension Project team just wrapping up a series of five public hearings on the project’s Draft EIS/R, it has a new feather to place in its cap. The project’s public outreach program was this week officially recognized as an example of government innovation from Harvard University. [continue reading]
Last night Metro held its first public hearing for the Regional Connector project at the Japanese American National Museum in the Little Tokyo/Arts District, and more than 100 community members, including residents, civic and business interests, came out to weigh in on the draft environmental impact statement/report before the project [continue reading]
I attended the public hearing Monday night in Beverly Hills for the Westside Subway Extension’s draft environmental impact statetment/report. It was pretty clear that among the more than 200 people who attended, the vast majority opposed a subway station from being built at Constellation and Avenue of the Stars in [continue reading]
There was some encouraging news on the 30/10 Initiative from Washington D.C. today. In testimony submitted to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works, a key U.S. Department of Transportation official made it clear that in the view of the federal government, one key benefit of 30/10 is [continue reading]
Nothing like triple digit temperatures to bust some sod, but that’s exactly what public officials did this morning in the San Fernando Valley on a project that will add 3.4 miles of HOV lane to both directions of the Golden State Freeway between the 170 and 118 freeways. The $140.2-million [continue reading]
Below is the schedule for the final two public hearings on the subway’s draft environmental impact statement/report, or DEIR/S for the acronym-minded reader. As you might expect, the subject of tunneling under private properties will be discussed at tonight’s hearing in Beverly Hills, which is being live-streamed beginning at 6 [continue reading]
