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]
A couple of Source readers commented on our blog post last week about new busway bridges now being built on Metro’s Orange Line Extension Project. Readers wanted to know whether the new bridges over the L.A. River, the Santa Susana Wash and Lassen Street were being built strong enough to [continue reading]
Good news today for Metro: the agency has been awarded two grants from the Federal Transit Administration: •$25 million for the purchase of new compressed natural gas (CNG) buses. Attentive readers will recall that Metro earlier this year retired its last diesel bus, with the vast majority of Metro buses [continue reading]
There will be an oral report given by Metro staff and consultants at the Metro Board of Directors’ Planning Committee on Wednesday on engineering, geotechnical and safety issues involving the building of the Westside Subway Extension in Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood. The meeting begins at 1 p.m. at [continue reading]
Construction workers place concrete for the bridge deck of the Orange Line Extension’s L.A. River Bridge. Photo credits: Perla Berry In the latest sign of construction progress for the Metro Orange Line Extension Project, work crews this week poured the deck for the busway’s bridge over the Los Angeles River [continue reading]
The second phase of Sunset Bridge reconstruction work for the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project is scheduled to begin October 15 and last for two weeks. Work will require the weekday morning closure of the southbound 405 Sunset Boulevard freeway off-ramp beginning Monday, October 17. Motorists will have to utilize [continue reading]
The news release is below. It’s about a 45- to 50-minute trip on the Rapid 761 between Pacoima and Sherman Oaks at present — this project aims to speed that up: Metro, in cooperation with the city of Los Angeles, will hold three community workshops in late October to inform [continue reading]
President Obama on Tuesday announced an expedited federal review of the Crenshaw/LAX Line, which could allow the project to begin construction earlier and create jobs sooner. Metro officials have previously said the Crenshaw/LAX Line is on track to begin construction in 2013. It is scheduled to open in 2018 under [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metro: Twenty-one representatives of Los Angeles and Inglewood neighborhood organizations, business groups, schools, churches and community nonprofit agencies have been appointed to serve on the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project Community Leadership Council (CLC). The CLC is a public engagement effort by Metro to support and promote [continue reading]
