Metro CEO Art Leahy testified before a subcommittee in the House of Representatives on Wednesday morning in Washington and urged support for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s 30/10 initiative. The mayor’s plan proposes to build a dozen mass transit projects — all of which receive funding from the Measure R [continue reading]
As we mentioned last week, yesterday was the official groundbreaking ceremony for the first phase of the MacArthur Park Metro Apartments. Here are a few clarifications and new tidbits on the project: Phase 1 is actually being built one block east of the Westlake/MacArthur Park Red/Purple Line Station – between [continue reading]
Here’s an interesting little factoid: Did you you know the El Monte bus station is the busiest bus station west of Chicago? As part of the ExpressLanes project that will convert the carpool lanes on parts of the 10 and 110 freeways into toll lanes, the El Monte bus station [continue reading]
The Westside Subway Extension team is holding another round of public meetings beginning tonight to update the community on the draft environmental impact report being prepared for the line. Tonight’s meeting begins at 6 p.m. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; click here for the schedule for all [continue reading]
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa first proposed his 30/10 initiative last fall, proposing to build 12 mass transit projects to be heavily funded by the Measure R sales tax in the next 10 years instead of the next 30. The gist of the mayor’s plan is to secure federal hope [continue reading]
As expected, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s 30/10 initiative to build a dozen Measure R transit projects in the next decade instead of the next three decades will be considered this month by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors. The 30/10 initiative will go before the Board of Directors [continue reading]
The first phase of the latest project of Metro’s Joint Development Program breaks ground on Monday. MacArthur Park Metro Apartments is a $45 million joint venture between Metro, McCormack Baron Salazar, Los Angeles Housing Partnership and Polis Builders to bring mixed-use development with 172 affordable housing units and over 30,000 [continue reading]
Point your browser to the Regional Connector’s Ustream channel (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/regional-connector-community-update-meeting) today at noon to watch today’s Community Update Meeting via a live stream. The meeting – which goes until 1:30 p.m. – covers the latest progress on the Draft EIS/R for the project which now includes a fully grade-separated alternative. [continue reading]
This is one of those things that probably won’t cause too much excitement although it’s seemingly good news in a wonky kind of way. Caltrans has received permission from the state to construct two projects — widening of the 91 freeway and the ExpressLanes toll lanes on the 10 and [continue reading]
Both the Regional Connector and Westside Subway have community meetings coming up – but this time you don’t actually have to be there in person to follow the action. Metro will be making use of new social media technologies – Ustream and Twitter – to connect the community to the [continue reading]
