Last week, Metro announced on The Source that planners for the Westside Subway Extension were evaluating an alternative location for the Century City station along Santa Monica Boulevard as part of the project’s final environmental review process. Just to be clear, there are still only two options under study for [continue reading]
In closed session, the Metro Board of Directors voted Thursday afternoon to purchase Union Station for $75 million. Here’s the news release: The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today announced that it has successfully negotiated the purchase of Los Angeles Union Station from Catellus Operating Limited Partnership for [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors on Thursday approved a motion by Board Members Mark Ridley-Thomas and Diane Dubois to continue to develop a master plan for development at the Rosa Parks/Willlowbrook Blue Line station. The motion is posted after the jump. Here are renderings of what potential development may look [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors met in downtown Los Angeles for their monthly meeting Thursday morning and took action on several items of interest below. As of 11:45 a.m., the meeting is still in progress and the Board still has items to discuss in closed session. Please note that Los [continue reading]
Below is the written testimony submitted to the Congressional transportation funding hearing this morning by Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Member Antonio Villaraigosa. I think it’s worth noting that both Mayor Villaraigosa and Supervisor Don Knabe — here is his testimony — emphasized that changes in federal law sought [continue reading]
A joint hearing was held in Westwood this morning of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The respective chairs of those committees, Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. John Mica, were both in attendance. Both will play big roles [continue reading]
Here is the news release from the Expo Line Construction Authority: COURT DISMISSES NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP’S CHALLENGES TO DELAY EXPO LINE Phase 2 of the Expo Line project from Culver City to Santa Monica takes another step forward as the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of [continue reading]
As many of you already know, replacing the bridge that carries Mulholland Drive over the 405 freeway is part of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project. The main aim of the project is to build a carpool lane on the northbound side of the freeway between the 10 and 101 [continue reading]
Last week Metro CEO Art Leahy announced that the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, chaired by Representative John Mica (R-FL), will be holding a field hearing this month in Los Angeles County to discuss our [continue reading]
Community meetings about possible projects to improve traffic — or if there’s any need for a project — in the area of the 710 gap kicked off this week. For that reason, the project is being called “710 Conversations. ” One thing not prominently mentioned in news coverage of the [continue reading]
