I was (predictably) hiking in Yosemite on Friday when the news broke in L.A. that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood had expressed his strongest support to date of the 30/10 Initiative AND that the federal government was also supportive of doing the engineering work for the Westside Subway Extension all [continue reading]
Congresswoman Judy Chu, who represents California’s 32nd District, issued a release today showing her support the 30/10 Initiative: Washington, D.C.– Today Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA) announced support of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LA County MTA’s 30/10 Initiative. The 30/10 program will take 12 transportation investment projects approved in the 30-year [continue reading]
Five meetings have been scheduled throughout the next month to update the public on the Westside Subway Extension Project as Metro moves towards releasing the Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Report (EIS/EIR). These meetings are meant to get the public up to speed on the project before the Draft EIS/EIR is released [continue reading]
The long-sought project to add a bus lane to 9.5 miles of Wilshire Boulevard for peak hour commutes will take a step forward next week when a draft environmental impact report is released jointly by Metro, along with the city and county of Los Angeles. Those with long memories know [continue reading]
The agency’s Board of Directors voted Thursday to launch a new round of studies to consider how to improve traffic in the area around the gap in the 710 freeway between Alhambra and Pasadena. Here’s the link to the report on the issue by Metro staff. The studies will initially [continue reading]
Metro held a live web chat yesterday with Mike Barbour, the chief of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project, which is adding a carpool lane on the northbound 405 between the 10 and 101 freeways, among other improvements. Barbour fielded questions from readers. The transcript is below — and here’s [continue reading]
As the Expo Line is under construction between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City, there remains one street-level crossing that needs state approval: at Farmdale Avenue, adjacent to Dorsey High School in South L.A. The original plan for the line was to have the tracks cross Farmdale at street level [continue reading]
Mike Barbour, Project Director of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project, will be at the helm of today’s chat – giving an overview of the project and answering your questions during the hour long session. To join in, point your browsers to http://www.metro.net/news/pages/livechat/ at noon.
Kay Greeley freely admits that she is a tree hugger. She estimates that she has examined 50,000 trees during her career, which is a large number of hugs by any measure. Greeley even has favorite trees: two native oaks (coast live oak and valley oak) and the California sycamore. “I [continue reading]
This is sort of a back-to-the-future type post, with the emphasis on “back.” Attentive Source readers will recall the 1990s when electric car charging stations started popping up around California, the hope being that the state was on the verge of an electric car revolution. For a number of reasons [continue reading]
