Following reconstruction progress on the Sunset Bridge, I-405 project crews have reopened the southbound freeway offramp at Sunset Boulevard early. The offramp had been closed between 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. during weekdays only as of October 15. The offramp provides access to UCLA, Brentwood and other Westside areas. It [continue reading]
The schedule for this week’s full directional freeway closures in support of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project has been revised. These closures will begin tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 25, 2011, and last approximately four nights. See construction notice for details: ATTENTION RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS IN THE VICINITY OF THE [continue reading]
We have already posted about last week’s oral report to the Metro Board by several experts on seismic and tunneling issues in the Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood areas. The experts recommended that the Century City station be located along Constellation Avenue to avoid two active earthquake fault zones [continue reading]
Here’s the latest from the Expo Line Construction Authority:
Westside drivers beware. Beginning Monday, Oct. 24, it will be harder to travel on portions of Sepulveda Boulevard in the Westwood area through a combination of lane reductions associated with underground utility work and the still-in-force weekday morning closure of the southbound I-405 freeway offramp at Sunset Boulevard . Plan [continue reading]
Streamlining Chicago (1940) from WBEZ on Vimeo. Hat tip to Source reader Todd Markle for sending over this story from the WBEZ website in Chicago about the city getting its first subway. The above is a film made in 1940 to promote Chicago’s subway and freeway (ahem, expressway) plan. There’s [continue reading]
The pair of reports on tunneling safety and seismic issues involving the Westside Subway Extension between Beverly Hills and Westwood have been posted online. The reports were the basis for yesterday’s oral report to the Board of Directors by a variety of engineers, geologists and seismologists. The gist of it: [continue reading]
The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is scheduled on Nov. 10 to consider giving approval to the street crossings for the second phase of the Expo Line, which will run between Culver City and Santa Monica. It’s a big deal because the line recently had its groundbreaking and can’t open [continue reading]
The following was compiled by Metro. I’m posting it here as a companion to the previous post about seismic and tunneling issues along the Westside Subway Extension: Some of the world’s leading seismologists as well as tunneling engineers and other experts were involved in preparing or independently reviewing two geotechnical [continue reading]
Today’s meeting of the Metro Board of Directors Planning Committee began a few minutes ago. The first item is a big one: a discussion by experts on seismic and tunneling issues in the Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood involving the Westside Subway Extension. A lot of material is going [continue reading]
