I just wanted to catch up on one piece of news from last week that I thought was worth highlighting: the U.S. Department of Transportation announced a new round of funding for small transportation projects and the effort to build a streetcar for downtown Los Angeles didn’t make the cut. [continue reading]
There will be an open house on Wednesday, July 14, for the Westside Subway Extension from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Brown Auditorium (5905 Wilshire Blvd.). The lunchtime session will provide information on the status of planning for the subway extension with [continue reading]
A few weeks ago, I told readers to feel free to contact their elected representatives to urge support for the 30/10 Initiative. Intelligent Source readers — and I realize that phrase is redundant — know that the 30/10 plan proposes to build a dozen Measure R transit projects in the [continue reading]
Attentive readers know that the Westside Subway Extension is scheduled to reach an important milestone later this summer: the release of the project’s draft environmental impact statement/report, otherwise known as a DEIR. The lengthy document looks at the reasons the line should or shouldn’t be built, its impacts on the [continue reading]
One of the challenges of building a bullet train in California is that it would be the first of its kind in the United States and all the expertise on how to design, build and operate the trains is currently overseas in Europe and Asia. After the jump is a [continue reading]
This one is hardly a shock, as officials with the California High-Speed Rail Authority had already been on record as saying the agency would study sharing tracks between L.A. and Anaheim with Metrolink and Amtrak. Nonetheless, the Authority’s Board in a meeting in Los Angeles made it official when they [continue reading]
This isn’t the easiest issue to get our brains wrapped around — nothing involving transportation funding ever is. But this post involves good news for the Westside Subway Extension, with a letter from Federal Transit Administration chief Peter Rogoff to Rep. Henry Waxman reaffirming his agency’s desire to see the [continue reading]
I was waiting for a table to open up at Heirloom Bakery in South Pasadena on Sunday, when this truck/float on the way to the city’s Fourth of July parade stopped out front. I think it’s fair to say that the truck’s owner is not a fan of any plans [continue reading]
As we posted recently, the Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit project recently released its draft environmental impact report/study (DEIR). That’s a key document that has to be completed before work on the peak-hour bus lanes on Wilshire can begin construction. Here’s a link to the presentation used at public meetings about [continue reading]
I posted a poll recently asking readers their opinion of whether the 30/10 Initiative would pass muster with Congress. Seemed like a reasonable enough question. The 30/10 plan proposes to build 12 transit projects funded by the Measure R sales tax increase in the next decade by securing federal loans [continue reading]
