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]
The first of two public hearings on the Regional Connector’s draft environmental impact statement/report (DEIS/R) is tomorrow night. Here’s the schedule: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:30 – 8pm Japanese American National Museum 369 E. 1st St Los Angeles, CA 90012 Monday, October 4, 2010 11:30am – 1pm Los Angeles Police [continue reading]
The L.A. Weekly on Wednesday published a story headlined “$9 Billion Subway-to-Sea Rip-off.” The story suggests that the Westside Subway Extension project is a ripoff because it won’t fix traffic congestion in the region. I’d like to offer readers some corrections and clarifications, and also provide information omitted from the [continue reading]
UPDATE, FRIDAY, 5 P.M. — I added information after the jump about two other issues not included in the original version of this post. In addition to the bus service changes and cuts I posted about earlier, here are some other items of interest the Board of Directors of Metro [continue reading]
The Board of Directors voted this morning on service changes and cuts that would reduce Metro’s bus service by about 3.7 percent. The cuts include the elimination of five Rapid bus lines — the 711, 714, 715, 753 and 920 — although local service will be enhanced. Here’s the staff [continue reading]
