Below is the news release from Metro on the news earlier today that the Westside Subway Extension is about to secure a $640.8-million federal TIFIA loan. As the release states, Metro staff will be working in the next several weeks to determine the exact impact the loan will have on [continue reading]
Very good news today for the Westside Subway Extension: a $640.8-million loan neared final approval for the project by the U.S. Department of Transportation, according to Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. The loan is coming from the TIFIA program, which is the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act. TIFIA [continue reading]
Our trusty 405 closure countdown clock tells me that it’s 9 days until Carmageddon… yikes! While officials are recommending staying off the roads the weekend of July 16th, those who [continue reading]
Metro officials and many business and labor leaders are anxiously awaiting some big news: Rep. John Mica (R-Florida) is scheduled on Thursday to release an outline of his version of the next multiyear federal transportation spending bill. Why is that a big deal? Because Metro and many others are hoping [continue reading]
Officials today held a groundbreaking ceremony for the ExpressLanes project that will convert parts of the carpool lanes on the 10 and 110 freeways to toll lanes. The idea of the test program is to sell excess space when it exists in the lanes to those currently prohibited from using [continue reading]
The agency had previously announced free service on the Orange Line busway and the Red and Purple line subway on the weekend of July 16-17, when the 405 will be closed over the Sepulveda Pass for the partial demolition of the Mulholland Bridge. In addition, the Metro Board of Directors [continue reading]
The Foothill Extension will take the Gold Line from its current terminus in Pasadena to the Azusa/Glendora border. It’s a project funded by Measure R, the half-cent sales tax increase approved by L.A. County voters in 2008. The last station on the Gold Line at present is at Sierra Madre [continue reading]
The actor Erik Estrada, aka Officer Frank Poncharello from “CHiPs,” was cool enough to help tape a public service announcement this morning advising motorists of the upcoming 405-Sepulveda Pass closure the weekend of July 16-17. I’m sure the fine Officer will be reminding motorists to plan ahead for the closure, [continue reading]
Metro held a live chat this afternoon to area residents a chance to quiz two agency officials — Doug Failing, the Executive Director of Highway Programs, and Krishniah Murthy, Executive Director of Transit Project Delivery — about the July 16-17 weekend closure of the 405 over the Sepulveda Pass. If [continue reading]
