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]
Some good news out of Washington D.C. this morning about the 30/10 Initiative — here’s the story from the L.A. Times’ Rich Simon. Excerpt: “I talked to the mayor yesterday and told him, ‘charge on,’ ” chamber president Thomas J. Donohue said at a Capitol Hill hearing. “We’ll put you [continue reading]
Gov. Rick Scott said on Wednesday that he’s turning down $2 billion in federal funding for a high-speed rail project between Tampa and Orlando because he didn’t feel it was a sound investment of taxpayer money. Here’s the story from the St. Petersburg Times. It doesn’t sound like the news [continue reading]
As many of you know, the location of the eventual Century City station is one of the key remaining questions for the Westside Subway Extension. When the Metro Board adopted a route last fall – the “Locally Preferred Alternative” — they authorized Metro staff to continue studying two options. One [continue reading]
President Barack Obama on Monday released his 2012 budget, which included his priorities for transportation spending. One area of particular concern for Metro is New Starts funding — the program run by the Federal Transit Administration to help local areas pay for big, pricey transit projects. The good news is [continue reading]
Over the next two months, contractors will be doing some exploratory drilling to collect soil samples as a part of the preliminary engineering for the Crenshaw/LAX Line. Soil samples are needed to assess subsurface conditions in order to design trackway, station structure and tunnels for the project. This work schedule [continue reading]
The news release is below: The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is currently conducting a Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report (EIS/EIR) for the Westside Subway Extension and will host three Station Area Advisory Meetings to provide community input to Metro subway planners on potential urban design and other features [continue reading]
The statement below was released today by the American Public Transportation Assn., a Washington-based nonprofit which represents transit agencies (including Metro) and private firms involved in building and operating transit: APTA Applauds President Obama’s Proposed FY 2012 Budget Investments in Public Transportation and High-Speed Rail Will Create American Jobs and [continue reading]
