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]
This excellent segment titled “Train Wars” on the proposed high-speed rail project in California was produced by filmmakers Roger Rudick and Luke Mines and recently aired on KQED in Northern California. It’s seven minutes long and I encourage you to watch — the segment takes a look at some of [continue reading]
The above is the latest construction update on the Gold Line Foothill Extension project, which will extend the Gold Line for 11.5 miles from Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border. The video focuses on the work done in the past few months on the bridge that will carry the tracks from [continue reading]
As many of you know by now, the Regional Connector’s Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report was released last Friday. (News release and Exec summary here). The public review period begins today and the Metro Board of Directors will consider the report at their February meeting. Here are some of the highlights [continue reading]
When they are working as intended, back-up alarms—in common with some forms of modern music—broadcast annoying sounds for several blocks. The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project has been trying to do something about this. The answer may rely on a duck or, at least, the sound of a duck. Back-up [continue reading]
REGIONAL CONNECTOR: I think it was nice to see the final environmental study for the Regional Connector be released the other day. Although public review and approval from the Board of Directors is still required, it’s the fourth major environmental study of a Measure R project to be completed since [continue reading]
Chocoholics are going to love the La Cienega Station once the Expo Line opens. Just imagine standing on the elevated platform, gazing out at the Hollywood sign in the distance, when the wind picks up…and suddenly the smell of chocolate, cream and warm sugar fill the air. Just as you’re [continue reading]
Executive Summary Part1 of 3 One week earlier than expected, Metro today released the Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report (FEIS/R) for the Regional Connector project. A 30-day public review period begins next Friday, Jan. 20, and lasts for 30 days. The document is available for viewing and download on the Regional [continue reading]
