Los Angeles City Councilman and Metro Board Member Jose Huizar held a press event this morning to discuss the Eastside Access project, which aims to make streetscape improvements in Boyle Heights and the Eastside near the Gold Line and help a burgeoning arts district in the area. Like many parts [continue reading]
I wanted to provide a quick update on one of the many road projects involving Metro: improvements proposed for the 710 corridor between Long Beach and the 60 freeway. In 2008, Metro launched an environmental study on how to improve this part of I-710. As many battle-tested motorists already know, [continue reading]
The Board of Directors of the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) voted today that a 65-mile stretch of track between Madera and Corcoran in the San Joaquin Valley will be the first to be built for the state’s bullet train project. That stretch also includes Fresno. The vote was hardly [continue reading]
The Federal Transit Administration on Thursday gave approval to Metro to remove a nearly one-mile stretch of Wilshire Boulevard from the Wilshire bus lane project without jeopardizing a federal grant for the project. The decision whether to keep a bus lane on that part of Wilshire — between Comstock and [continue reading]
Heavy winds subsided and the skies were crystal clear Tuesday, making it the perfect day for the Westside Subway Extension to take to the air to do aerial surveys of the planned route. This is all part of the ongoing environmental and engineering analysis for the project. More than 100 [continue reading]
As we reported recently, the Board of Directors’ planning committee recently asked whether a nearly one-mile stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood should be removed from the rush hour bus lane project being planned along Wilshire. The concern is that the bus lane in that stretch between Selby and Comstock [continue reading]
[googleMap name=”Del Air Park”]12601 Isis Avenue, Hawthorne, CA[/googleMap] The meeting will take place at Del Air Park, located at 12601 Isis Avenue, Hawthorne from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. There are currently four locations to store train cars for the Crenshaw/LAX line under consideration — in L.A., Inglewood, Hawthorne and [continue reading]
Below is the press release issued Wednesday from the commuter rail agency. Metrolink’s Board of Directors approved a $120-million contract to install positive train control systems along its 512-mile rail system in October. Metro, on behalf of Los Angeles County, is one of the five county transit agencies in So [continue reading]
Here’s the press release below from the California High-Speed Rail Authority, saying that agency staff is recommending that the initial 65-mile segment of tracks be built between Madera and Corcoran in the San Joaquin Valley, with a completion date of 2017. The segment of track would be part of the [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Director’s planning committee discussed the Wilshire bus lane project on Wednesday and moved the project’s environmental study and staff recommendations to the full Board. The committee declined to makes its own recommendation for or against the project — a common scenario in committee discussions. The Wilshire [continue reading]
