This just in: The Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report for the Regional Connector project will be released on Jan. 20 for public review. It is expected that the Metro Board of Directors will consider approval of the document at their February meeting. Here is the news release from Metro: Regional Connector [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from Metro: The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and the State of California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) are hosting four community update meetings for the High Desert Corridor (HDC) project. The proposed 63-mile corridor under study to link Antelope Valley with Victor Valley is [continue reading]
If you’ve read The Source for a while, you may recognize the name of transit planner Jarrett Walker and his professional blog Human Transit. We’ve linked to Walker liberally in order to steer readers to some of his insightful posts on the nuts and bolts of public transit. And last [continue reading]
An Expo Line train was tested on the stretch of tracks north of Washington Boulevard today, reaching the 7th/Metro Center station that it will eventually share with the Blue Line.
Hope Street Work Notice 1-6-12 And another notice for Alameda Street after the jump…
The Beverly Hills Courier published a story in today’s edition headlined “Metro admits Santa Monica Blvd. seismic work not adequate.” The story involves the studies that the Beverly Hills Unified School District is performing on the Beverly Hills High School campus in order to determine the location of earthquake fault [continue reading]
This involves a lawsuit brought against the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority alleging that the environmental studies for the Pasadena-to-Azusa light rail project didn’t properly study alternative locations for a rail maintenance yard. The suit was brought by a Monrovia land owner who is objecting to attempts to acquire [continue reading]
In 2008, Los Angeles County voters approved the Measure R sales tax increase of one-half cent to pay for new road and transit projects. The approval of Measure R — with 68 percent of the vote — jump-started Metro’s efforts to build a network of bus and rail projects that [continue reading]
HIGH-SPEED RAIL FUNDING: I think until proponents of the project put forth a credible funding plan, the project is going to keep getting slagged by opponents and critics. The latest salvo came yesterday on the first business day of the new year, when a state-appointed “peer review group” burped out [continue reading]
Good news for Metro on the final business day of 2011: The Federal Transit Administration has approved the Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report for the Crenshaw/LAX Line, the light rail project that will run between the Green Line and the Exposition Line. The approval allows Metro to go forward with any [continue reading]
