One of the challenges of building a bullet train in California is that it would be the first of its kind in the United States and all the expertise on how to design, build and operate the trains is currently overseas in Europe and Asia. After the jump is a [continue reading]
This one is hardly a shock, as officials with the California High-Speed Rail Authority had already been on record as saying the agency would study sharing tracks between L.A. and Anaheim with Metrolink and Amtrak. Nonetheless, the Authority’s Board in a meeting in Los Angeles made it official when they [continue reading]
This isn’t the easiest issue to get our brains wrapped around — nothing involving transportation funding ever is. But this post involves good news for the Westside Subway Extension, with a letter from Federal Transit Administration chief Peter Rogoff to Rep. Henry Waxman reaffirming his agency’s desire to see the [continue reading]
I was waiting for a table to open up at Heirloom Bakery in South Pasadena on Sunday, when this truck/float on the way to the city’s Fourth of July parade stopped out front. I think it’s fair to say that the truck’s owner is not a fan of any plans [continue reading]
As we posted recently, the Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit project recently released its draft environmental impact report/study (DEIR). That’s a key document that has to be completed before work on the peak-hour bus lanes on Wilshire can begin construction. Here’s a link to the presentation used at public meetings about [continue reading]
I posted a poll recently asking readers their opinion of whether the 30/10 Initiative would pass muster with Congress. Seemed like a reasonable enough question. The 30/10 plan proposes to build 12 transit projects funded by the Measure R sales tax increase in the next decade by securing federal loans [continue reading]
The Crenshaw Line light rail project is holding a workshop Wednesday night at 6 p.m. at the Lula Washington Dance Theatre to discuss streetscape improvements on the segment between Exposition Boulevard and 39th Street. Details are after the jump.
Some big transit funding news out of Denver on Friday: the RTD, the metro Denver area’s transit agency, approved of a public-private partnership to help build three rail lines, including a connection between Denver and the distant Denver International Airport. The deal works like this: the consortium of private firms [continue reading]
Commuters and neighbors can see that the I-405 uses a sophisticated system of lanes, ramps and signage to move hundreds of thousands of vehicles each day. What few see is the comprehensive drainage system beneath the I-405 road surface. Miles of drains under the I-405 carry runoff from rain falling [continue reading]
As I posted yesterday, the Gold Line Foothill Extension project awarded its first construction contract on Friday. A ceremonial groundbreaking will take place in Arcadia on Saturday and work on a rail bridge over the eastbound lanes of the 210 freeway is expected to start within a few months. While [continue reading]
