It’s a big day at Metro HQ in downtown, with Sen. Barbara Boxer and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood here for a town hall meeting on the next federal transportation bill. That is set to start in a few minutes and I’ll post about it this afternoon. In the [continue reading]
Two Metro Board of Director committees voted on Thursday to add the study of an underground station in Little Tokyo to the draft environmental impact report for the regional downtown connector project. To be clear: this doesn’t mean it’s getting built. Just that it will be studied. The issue in [continue reading]
The Board of Director’s Measure R committee delayed voting until next month on an agreement with the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority over how to transfer funds between Metro and the Authority. The Authority is a separate agency set up to build the first phase of the Foothill Extension [continue reading]
Work is scheduled to continue at night this week on the 405 Sepulveda Pass widening project — a carpool lane is being added on the northbound freeway between the Santa Monica and Ventura freeways. The contractor will be placing K-rails along the right shoulder to isolate the work zone. All [continue reading]
The Source recently caught up with Metro CEO Art Leahy for this edition of Metro Minutes to discuss the recent award of $2.3 billion to California for the state’s high-speed rail project and what it may mean for the Los Angeles region. Click above to hear the audio file. And [continue reading]
The extension of the Orange Line busway from Canoga Park to Chatsworth is scheduled to open in 2012. On Thursday, Metro awarded a contract for much of the work that needs to be completed. Here’s the memo from Metro CEO Art Leahy’s daily email to staff: Yesterday, we issued Brutoco [continue reading]
The American Public Transportation Assn. helped organize a practicum – that is, discussion – on high-speed rail in Los Angeles on Thursday. The idea was to bring together some experts and state officials to discuss the challenges of building high-speed rail both here in California and other states now that [continue reading]
Metro planning officials last year rejiggered the Regional Downtown Connector so that tracks would go under Alameda in Little Tokyo rather than across it. Many area residents and businesses complained that a street-level crossing would disrupt traffic and commerce on a grand scale. The new under-Alameda concept, which adds an [continue reading]
As we posted earlier in today’s transportation headlines, things appear to be chugging along smoothly for the Foothill Extension of the Gold Line, which would extend the current Gold Line for 11.4 miles from Pasadena to Azusa with six new stations and some much-needed new parking. The Foothill Extension Construction [continue reading]
The Eastside Gold Line Extension just opened in November but planning continues on a possible extension of the extension to South El Monte or Whittier. Four public meetings are being held in late February to update residents on the planning process for the Eastside Transit Corridor project. At this point, [continue reading]
