Video tribute to Metro Rail’s 20th B-day
The video above was produced by Metro on the 20th anniversary of Metro Rail. And, here’s a link to a page on Metro’s website with a simple timeline of Metro Rail’s development.
Where L.A. County stands when it comes to miles of rail transit
I mentioned in the transportation headlines this morning that the U.S. Department of Transportation had released its annual compendium of transpo stats–in this case, covering the year 2008. The timing is convenient since today is also the 20thanniversary of the opening of the Blue Line and the beginning of Metro [continue reading]
Thumbs up or down to Crenshaw station on Westside Subway Extension?
If you haven’t cast a vote yet, you are just one mouse click away from registering an opinion on this important issue for the Westside Subway Extension. We have 477 votes so far and I’d like to see that reach 1,000 — this kind of info is helpful to Metro [continue reading]
Happy 20th Birthday, Metro Rail!
In between 1963 and July 1990, there was no mass transit that traveled by rail in Los Angeles County. I do not think it’s a coincidence that it was during this time that L.A. County — and, by extension, the rest of Southern California — cemented its reputation as the [continue reading]
Group starts online petition for 30/10 Initiative
The advocacy group Move LA has started an online petition for those who support the 30/10 Initiative — the plan to use federal loans and other financing to build a dozen Measure R transit projects in 10 years instead of 30. The 30/10 Initiative is official Metro policy. Move LA [continue reading]
Reminder: take our poll on whether there should be Crenshaw subway station
As we approach the noon hour, 267 readers have cast a vote in the above poll and 59% say they want a Westside Subway Extension station at Crenshaw. If you haven’t voted, please do so. If you have voted and know of any transit-minded friends or acquaintances who are interested [continue reading]
About 30/10…it appears Congress is listening
A few weeks ago, I told readers to feel free to contact their elected representatives to urge support for the 30/10 Initiative. Intelligent Source readers — and I realize that phrase is redundant — know that the 30/10 plan proposes to build a dozen Measure R transit projects in the [continue reading]
Poll: How would you plan the Westside Subway Extension?
Attentive readers know that the Westside Subway Extension is scheduled to reach an important milestone later this summer: the release of the project’s draft environmental impact statement/report, otherwise known as a DEIR. The lengthy document looks at the reasons the line should or shouldn’t be built, its impacts on the [continue reading]
High-Speed Rail Authority to study shared-use option between L.A. and Anaheim
This one is hardly a shock, as officials with the California High-Speed Rail Authority had already been on record as saying the agency would study sharing tracks between L.A. and Anaheim with Metrolink and Amtrak. Nonetheless, the Authority’s Board in a meeting in Los Angeles made it official when they [continue reading]
Feds reaffirm support for planning Westside Subway Extension to Westwood now
This isn’t the easiest issue to get our brains wrapped around — nothing involving transportation funding ever is. But this post involves good news for the Westside Subway Extension, with a letter from Federal Transit Administration chief Peter Rogoff to Rep. Henry Waxman reaffirming his agency’s desire to see the [continue reading]