The Crenshaw Line light rail project is holding a workshop Wednesday night at 6 p.m. at the Lula Washington Dance Theatre to discuss streetscape improvements on the segment between Exposition Boulevard and 39th Street. Details are after the jump.
Some big transit funding news out of Denver on Friday: the RTD, the metro Denver area’s transit agency, approved of a public-private partnership to help build three rail lines, including a connection between Denver and the distant Denver International Airport. The deal works like this: the consortium of private firms [continue reading]
Commuters and neighbors can see that the I-405 uses a sophisticated system of lanes, ramps and signage to move hundreds of thousands of vehicles each day. What few see is the comprehensive drainage system beneath the I-405 road surface. Miles of drains under the I-405 carry runoff from rain falling [continue reading]
As I posted yesterday, the Gold Line Foothill Extension project awarded its first construction contract on Friday. A ceremonial groundbreaking will take place in Arcadia on Saturday and work on a rail bridge over the eastbound lanes of the 210 freeway is expected to start within a few months. While [continue reading]
The agency charged with building the Gold Line extension from Pasadena to Azusa awarded its first construction contract on Friday, moving the light rail project one step closer to being built. It’s important because the Foothill Extension will be the first rail project funded by the Measure R to begin [continue reading]
We asked readers last week if they believe that Congress and President Obama will one day approve of the 30/10 Initiative, the effort to accelerate the building of Measure R transit projects in Los Angeles County. I have to say I’m a little surprised by the answer so far, with [continue reading]
There was an intriguing discussion on Thursday in the Construction Committee of the Metro Board of Directors involving different tunneling methods that could be used on the Westside Subway Extension and other Metro projects that may require tunneling such as the Downtown Regional Connector, the Crenshaw Line and a 710 [continue reading]
Thursday is “Dump the Pump Day,” with motorists encouraged to take mass transit once a week as a way or join a carpool or vanpool to save some coin and do something nice for the air. Sounds good. Of course, it would also be good if there were more mass [continue reading]
I just wanted to circle back to this morning’s transportation headlines, which included this tidbit: The U.S. Conference of Mayors voted unanimously on Monday to support the 30/10 Initiative. Attentive readers will recall that 30/10 was conceived by L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and then later embraced by the Board of [continue reading]
The latest round of public meetings for the Westside Subway Extension begin tonight at 6 p.m. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as Metro officials are finishing up work on the draft environmental impact study/report (DEIS/R) for the project. There are four other meetings scheduled between now and [continue reading]
