Eight key transportation projects in Los Angeles County were awarded a total of $448 million in state bond money on Wednesday by the California Transportation Commission at their meeting in Sacramento. The Alameda Corridor East project received $336.6 million to help eliminate street crossings of the busy Union Pacific railroad [continue reading]
The final Thursday of the month is upon us, meaning the full Metro Board of Directors will convene at Metro HQ in downtown Los Angeles tomorrow at 9 a.m. for their regular meeting. The meeting, of course, is open to the public; the Metro building is adjacent to Union Station. [continue reading]
The Metro team studying the possible resurrection of streetcar service in downtown Los Angeles has released a briefing package [PDF] that details the seven routes now under consideration and compares the pros and cons of each. Metro planners have been winnowing potential routes — “alternatives” in planner speak — since [continue reading]
The ExpressLanes project in the L.A. area has been mildly controversial at times — the one-year experimental program is converting about 25 miles of existing carpool lanes on the 10 and 110 freeways into variable toll lanes. Carpoolers will still use the lanes for free and single motorists will be [continue reading]
Following reconstruction progress on the Sunset Bridge, I-405 project crews have reopened the southbound freeway offramp at Sunset Boulevard early. The offramp had been closed between 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. during weekdays only as of October 15. The offramp provides access to UCLA, Brentwood and other Westside areas. It [continue reading]
The schedule for this week’s full directional freeway closures in support of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project has been revised. These closures will begin tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 25, 2011, and last approximately four nights. See construction notice for details: ATTENTION RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS IN THE VICINITY OF THE [continue reading]
We have already posted about last week’s oral report to the Metro Board by several experts on seismic and tunneling issues in the Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood areas. The experts recommended that the Century City station be located along Constellation Avenue to avoid two active earthquake fault zones [continue reading]
Here’s the latest from the Expo Line Construction Authority:
Westside drivers beware. Beginning Monday, Oct. 24, it will be harder to travel on portions of Sepulveda Boulevard in the Westwood area through a combination of lane reductions associated with underground utility work and the still-in-force weekday morning closure of the southbound I-405 freeway offramp at Sunset Boulevard . Plan [continue reading]
Streamlining Chicago (1940) from WBEZ on Vimeo. Hat tip to Source reader Todd Markle for sending over this story from the WBEZ website in Chicago about the city getting its first subway. The above is a film made in 1940 to promote Chicago’s subway and freeway (ahem, expressway) plan. There’s [continue reading]
