The city of Beverly Hills has released a report by their consultants Exponent on subway tunneling under the Beverly Hills High School campus for the Westside Subway Extension. The report will be discussed at a meeting of the Beverly Hills City Council this afternoon; the Council meeting can be viewed [continue reading]
Here’s the update from the High Desert Corridor project team: Metro is hosting the last of four public meetings on the High Desert Corridor tonight at the Stater Bros. Mavericks Stadium in Adelanto. Due to technical difficulties, last night’s meeting in Victorville was not available online. Attached is the PowerPoint [continue reading]
Here’s the construction notice from the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements project: 405 Construction Notice
UPDATE: Here is a video from the tour: Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Antonio Villaraigosa and Metro officials provided a media tour of the Orange Line Extension this morning. The news release below has many details on the four-mile line between the existing Canoga station and the Chatsworth [continue reading]
The new Martin Luther King Jr. Transit Center will serve the Blue Line and numerous Metro bus lines. Here is the news release from the city of Compton: MEDIA ALERT City of Compton_ MLK Grand Opening
The High Desert Corridor project — which is considering a new freeway connecting Highway 14 in Los Angeles County to Highway 18 in San Bernardino County — is in the midst of holding community meetings. Below is the Power Point presentation being used at the meetings (please ignore the notes [continue reading]
Here are some other actions taken by the Metro Board of Directors at their meeting on Thursday: •(Item 5) The Board approved a motion by Councilman Jose Huizar seeking construction bids that would include building a second portal — at 2nd and Spring — to the 2nd/Broadway station for the [continue reading]
At today’s Metro Board meeting, agency CEO Art Leahy announced that pre-revenue testing for the Expo Line will begin this coming Monday. The testing is intended to simulate actual service with trains running on a regular schedule, but with no customers on board. Trains will be operating between the Expo [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors today unanimously approved a plan to help increase the number of workers from disadvantaged areas to be hired to work on the agency’s transit and road projects. The Project Labor Agreement (PLA) between Metro and the Los Angeles/Orange County Building Trades Council is believed by [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors meets tomorrow at 9 a.m. at Metro headquarters adjacent to Los Angeles Union Station. The big item on the agenda – posted below – is consideration of a Project Labor Agreement that sets hiring targets for many Metro transit and highway projects to ensure that [continue reading]
