Metro will hold a public hearing on Thursday, March 31, to update the community and to receive verbal comments on the evaluation process of the proposed maintenance facility sites for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Light Rail Project. Metro staff is analyzing four sites for the development of a new maintenance [continue reading]
On a typical Wednesday in February 2009, over 120,000 vehicles flow east and west past Veteran Avenue on Wilshire Boulevard. If only one person sits in each car — not entirely impossible in Southern California, although unlikely — the number of people traveling on that stretch of Wilshire would exceed [continue reading]
Two more meetings have been added to the SR-710 Conversations series. They are: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 6-8 p.m. La Canada High School-Cafeteria 4463 Oak Grove Dr. La Canada Flintridge, CA 91011 Wednesday, April 6, 2011 6-8 p.m. Ramona Hall Community Center 4580 N. Figueroa St. Los Angles, [continue reading]
In their meeting today, the Metro Board also took action on a three other items of interest: •(Item 21) The Board approved a report explaining that the 30/10 Initiative will be called America Fast Forward at a national level. The 30/10 Initiative was created to change federal laws so that [continue reading]
[mappress mapid=”9″] It’s one of those planning questions that’s only — and I say ‘only’ sarcastically — several decades old: how to improve mass transit to Los Angeles International Airport? A study to answer that question may soon be underway. The Metro Board of Directors on Thursday is scheduled to [continue reading]
photos by Luis Inzunza/Metro It was one small step for the Expo Line this morning when a mock-up of a train vehicle was pushed down the tracks in the USC area to check for clearance issues. Obviously the mock-up doesn’t look like an actual train — the idea is to [continue reading]
Metro issued a long news release today about its highway program — specifically the many projects either underway or in the planning stage. As the release states, Metro’s highway program is often overlooked because of the agency’s transit programs. But the highway program is important. The most recent Census Bureau [continue reading]
Metro’s operations crew has scheduled a test for tomorrow morning in the USC area: a truck will be pushing a mock-up of a train car on the Expo Line tracks to check for clearance issues. This isn’t the same as a real train being on the tracks, but nonetheless members [continue reading]
From the project’s web page at metro.net: Metro is continuing work on the Final EIS/EIR for the Westside Subway Extension. Please join us for the second round of community update meetings for this last planning phase of the project. At these meetings, Metro will provide feedback from the January community [continue reading]
This is the second story in our series examining how L.A. County’s 30/10 financing model could help other cities around the country. On the eve of the 21st Century, the citizens of Salt Lake City cut the ribbon on their first light rail project, a 15-mile line connecting downtown to [continue reading]
