I’ll cut right to the part of the new construction fact sheet for the Westside Subway Extension that will likely interest you most: Construction Schedule Construction timing for the Project is dependent upon how the funding package for the project comes together. Presuming that the environmental clearance process concludes [continue reading]
Just another reminder that the chat will be online today from noon to 1 p.m. with a link on the Metro homepage. Direct link: http://metro.multicity.com/ Answering your questions about the 53-hour closure on the weekend of July 16-17 will be Doug Failing, Metro’s Executive Director of Highway Projects, and K.N. [continue reading]
The chat will be online from noon to 1 p.m. with a link on the Metro homepage. Answering your questions about the 53-hour closure on the weekend of July 16-17 will be Doug Failing, Metro’s Executive Director of Highway Projects, and K.N. Murthy, Executive Director of Transit Project Delivery for [continue reading]
Caltrans announced today that it has completed the reconstruction of the Baldwin Park Boulevard Bridge in order to accommodate new carpool lanes that are being built on the San Bernardino Freeway (Interstate 10). The Baldwin Park Boulevard Bridge is part of the San Bernardino Freeway HOV project that is adding [continue reading]
As expected, the Metro Board of Directors on Thursday approved free fares on the Red and Purple Line subway and the Orange Line busway for July 16 and 17, the weekend that the 405 freeway will be closed over the Sepulveda Pass for the partial demolition of the Mulholland Bridge. [continue reading]
Ever since I learned about the Expo Line — and the path that trains used to travel a century ago — I’ve relished in stumbling across bits and pieces of the old infrastructure that still dot the Westside. The original tracks were built by a predecessor to the Southern Pacific [continue reading]
View Larger Map Public officials held a groundbreaking on Wednesday morning for a project to improve the Carmenita/I-5 interchange. As the Google satellite view above shows, the bridge is two lanes wide at present. A new bridge will widen it to 10 lanes, according to Caltrans, with a scheduled completion [continue reading]
Here’s the update from the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, the independent agency building the line from Pasadena to Azusa. There’s a nice gallery of renderings and photos at the Construction Authority’s website. This is a Measure R funded project and the update says construction will start in the [continue reading]
Thousands of new boardings system-wide. Reduced transfers saving up to 20 minutes on some trips. An 11-minute ride from Union Station across downtown to Pico Station. Increased service efficiency. New transit stations in the employment heart of Los Angeles County. Take your pick, because the 1.9-mile Regional Connector has something [continue reading]
The activist group Move LA held a conference this morning in downtown Los Angeles to discuss the region’s transit future. By my somewhat under-caffeinated reckoning, optimism prevailed over pessimism. The event was a looooong conversation with many participants. Many of the points made have been made many times in the [continue reading]
