Here’s the press release from Caltrans, hot off the presses. The project involves building a carpool lane on the northbound 405 from the Santa Monica Freeway to the Ventura Freeway. The release: FULL FREEWAY CLOSURES TO BEGIN NEXT WEEK ON I-405 WEST LOS ANGELES – The California Department of Transportation [continue reading]
What 25 things would you do to improve L.A.? Marissa Gluck, in a fun piece at Modern Luxury, has her list that includes several ideas involving transportation. Among them: *More parking in popular retail districts. *No more stacked parking at the Hollywood Bowl. *A gondola along Mulholland Drive. *A funicular [continue reading]
As the subway extension is in the planning stages here, there are three tunneling projects underway in Manhattan — extending the No. 7 subway line, building the Second Avenue subway and building a connection for the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central Station. The above video, posted by the offfice [continue reading]
As you likely know, Metro and Caltrans are working on a project to build a northbound carpool lane on the 405 freeway between the Santa Monica Freeway and the Ventura Freeway. That’s the good news. The bad news: construction impacts will increase big-time starting Jan. 12, according to the press [continue reading]
The Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority held a luncheon and workshop in Glendora on Friday to update the status of the project for supporters. The Authority also debuted the design for one of the first big pieces of infrastructure on the line — a bridge over the eastbound lanes [continue reading]
The final environmental document for Phase 2 of the Expo Line light rail project from Culver City to Santa Monica was released today with several key changes. The entire final environmental impact report is on the Expo Line Construction Authority website and a press release from the Authority is after [continue reading]
The Source has yet to ride the new Silver Line (don’t worry, we will soon) but Metro Community Relations was there on opening day and took this video. Check out the sleek buses (NABI 45C-LFW, for you transit geeks), thoughts from passengers, and footage of the bus blasting past traffic [continue reading]
The Source last week reported slight delays on the Metro Blue Line due to a vehicular accident that damaged trackside signal equipment in Compton. Here’s a link to an earlier post about the incident. Repair work will not be done this upcoming weekend as initially reported. Metro Rail Operations says [continue reading]
I’m back from a few days of intense study of the water quantity content of snowflakes in the Eastern Sierra and found all sorts of goodies in this morning’s transportation headlines, compiled by the Metro library. If you’re looking to ease your brain into the workday, I would start with [continue reading]
With the new Metro Gold Line extension to East Los Angeles as an inspirational backdrop, low-income students living near the alignment have been taught by a Metro planner how to put the trains to work in creating a community vision that will transcend poverty and gang violence. Twenty-four students from [continue reading]
