A few other nuggets from today’s Board meeting: •(Item 32) The Board delayed a vote on a proposal to rename six train and bus stations. •(Item 54) The Board, after considerable public testimony, voted to hold off canceling bus service on Line 442 pending a three-month review of what could [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors on Thursday unanimously approved the final environmental impact statement/report for the long sought Crenshaw/LAX Line, a 8.5-mile light rail project that will run along Crenshaw Boulevard, Florence Avenue and Aviation Boulevard between the Green Line and Expo Line, passing through Inglewood along the way. The [continue reading]
The monthly meeting of the Metro Board of Directors just began a few minutes ago. The Board’s first action: they approved a one-month postponement of Item 9, a $37.3-million contract to a firm to do the environmental studies for the 710 gap project. Metro CEO Art Leahy said several issues [continue reading]
The Beverly Hills Unified School District on Wednesday issued a news release headlined “Beverly Hills Unified School District demands Metro come clean with facts on Westside Subway Extension.” In particular, the School District alleges that Metro subway planners decided last week to drop a potential station at Santa Monica Boulevard [continue reading]
As usual, the meeting is in the Metro headquarters adjacent to Los Angeles Union Station. The public is welcome to attend. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Here’s the agenda. The big item tomorrow is the Board’s consideration of the Crenshaw/LAX Line’s final environmental document. The Board [continue reading]
Here’s the update provided yesterday by Metro’s government relations team. Keep in mind this concerns next year’s federal budget — not to be confused with the multi-year transportation spending bill that is currently being written/debated/slapped together by Congress. One FYI: the New Starts program helps fund large transit projects around [continue reading]
The first of the two meetings on extending the Eastside Gold Line further east is tonight at 6 p.m. at the Montebello Senior Center at City Park, 115 South Taylor Avenue. The Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2 is a Measure R-funded project. The draft environmental study is expected to be [continue reading]
Cool sequence of photos taken early Tuesday morning on the 210 freeway as part of the construction of the “Iconic Bridge” for the Gold Line Foothill Extension, a key Measure R project. Here’s the update on the work from Foothill Extension Construction Authority CEO Habib Balian: Early this morning, work [continue reading]
We posted last week about a letter sent to Metro by Eli Broad and a new group calling itself the Connector Community Coalition. The letter asked for major changes in the Regional Connector light rail project that is in the final planning stages and will eventually connect the Blue, Expo [continue reading]
The Metro Board will consider Thursday awarding a $37.3-million contract to CH2M Hill to prepare the environmental impact reports and preliminary engineering for a potential project to help improve traffic congestion in the area of the gap in the 710 freeway between Alhambra and Pasadena. Here’s the staff report from Thursday’s [continue reading]
