There’s been some murmurings about town recently about building monorails-along-freeways as a mass transit fix for the region. As long-time transit observers know, the monorail idea has, in fact, been kicked around before. The above plan, floated in 1960, never got airborne because of community opposition, in particular, to an [continue reading]
If you’re interested in the Westside Subway Extension project, this letter from Rep. Henry Waxman is well worth reading. It’s short but addresses a CRITICAL topic — how the Federal Transit Administration evaluates the project to determine if it’s eligible for federal funding. In Waxman’s view, the entire Subway Extension [continue reading]
The California Transportation Commission is scheduled to vote this week on $91 million in state funding for the Colton Crossing project — a vote that also has implications for the anti-collision rail safety project known as positive train control (PTC). The Commission meets Wednesday and Thursday in Sacramento; here’s the [continue reading]
This falls into the category of not quite as dramatic as it sounds, but this summer Metro will modify its policy concerning bikes on Metro Rail during rush hour. At present, it’s up to the agency to decide whether trains are too crowded for cyclists to bring bikes aboard trains [continue reading]
I’m hoping a few more votes are cast this week on a poll we recently posted asking Source readers what kind of fare structure they prefer for Metro. Here’s the earlier post along with some more context. There are no proposals on the table, but The Source has an audience [continue reading]
Attentive Source readers will recall that the Board of Directors of Metro last month were set to consider a motion by Directors John Fasana and Gloria Molina to launch a new round of studies to consider how to improve traffic in the area around the gap of the 710 freeway [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy just finished an appearance on Airtalk on KPCC. The program focused on the budget revision that will be released later today by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Leahy made three key points: *If the state withdraws operating funds for transit agencies, Metro could be looking at 10% to [continue reading]
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is in Washington D.C. today to testify before Congress on the 30/10 Initiative that Metro is pursuing. Attentive readers will recall that the 30/10 plan proposes to build a dozen Measure R transit projects in the next 10 years instead of the next 30. Villaraigosa [continue reading]
With Bike to Work Day coming net week, the city of San Francisco has been increasing its bike infrastructure around town. One of the recently-completed projects was to paint a bike lane on Market Street. Streetsblog San Francisco has a nice post. Excerpt: Papandreou and his team noted that even [continue reading]
Metro staff released the following legislative alert today about Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s funding requests in next year’s federal budget, which includes $5 million for the Crenshaw Line and $10 million for the Westside Subway Extension and Downtown Regional Connector — money to be used in planning both lines. U.S. Senator [continue reading]
