View Subway planning in a larger map The team of Metro staffers that are planning the Westside Subway Extension are holding a meeting on March 17 to discuss a significant issue: should the subway have a station at Wilshire and Crenshaw boulevards? Stations cost about $200 million to build and [continue reading]
In recent years, urban planners have been making a big push to locate new residential buildings as close to transit as possible. It’s certainly started to happen in Los Angeles County, with apartments and condos sprouting near rail lines in Hollywood, North Hollywood, Koreatown, Pasadena and downtown Los Angeles, to [continue reading]
I-405 restriping efforts, also referred to as traffic lane delineation, continue this week beginning Wednesday, March 3 for five nights, weather permitting. This work will be concentrated between National Boulevard and Skirball Center Drive. This segment of freeway work will require full freeway lane and ramp closures. Here’s the latest [continue reading]
Construction crews are beginning an important piece of work for the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project to add a northbound carpool lane between the 10 and 101 freeways. They will be actually relocating Sepulveda Boulevard to the east to make way for the planned 10-mile carpool lane between the I-10 [continue reading]
I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project work notices keep coming in. Here’s the latest for some drainage system work starting tonight. Don’t forget, all work is subject to rains: Metro’s contractor is required to ensure that the drainage system along the freeway is clean and clear. Beginning the night of Friday, [continue reading]
View Extend the subway? in a larger map I wanted to circle back to the end of Thursday’s meeting of the Metro Board of Directors. Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge was serving on the Board yesterday as a one-day substitute — two of the city of Los Angeles appointees [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors met this morning at agency headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. The agenda was on the light side compared with recent months, but some decisions were made on a few key items: •In response to a motion by County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Los Angeles Mayor [continue reading]
The conversion of carpool lanes to toll lanes on parts of the 10 and 110 freeways could be pushed back 19 months — to 2012 — under a plan to be considered by the Metro Board of Directors at their meeting on Thursday. It’s item No. 47 on the meeting [continue reading]
The public can get the latest news on plans to improve transit in the area east of the Eastside Gold Line extension. Four alternatives are being studied as part of a draft environmental impact report: 1) extending the light rail line along the 60 freeway to South El Monte; 2) [continue reading]
The town hall meeting at Metro headquarters with Sen. Barbara Boxer and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wrapped up a little while ago. The topic: what should be in the massive federal transportation bill that Congress will soon begin debating. The 90-minute meeting featured short introductory remarks from Boxer and [continue reading]
