My colleague Fred Dennstedt and I are headed off later this morning for our first ride on the Eastside Gold Line Extension. Local media are getting a preview ride on Friday, but as proud Metro contractors we get to see it before them. Neener-neener! We’ll post our impressions later today. [continue reading]
The accompanying video was produced by Metro as part of the public outreach effort for the Westside Subway Extension environmental study currently underway. The study is looking at options for extending the subway west from its current terminus at Wilshire and Western and another option that would add a spur [continue reading]
The Edward R. Roybal Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension will open to the public Sunday, Nov. 15, with free rides from one end of the Gold Line to the other — East Los Angeles to Pasadena — and celebrations are planned along the route. On Sunday, festivities will take place [continue reading]
Here are today’s transpo headlines, courtesy of the Metro library. The Pasadena Star-News reports that a lawsuit filed by South Pasadena and La Canada against Metro was recently thrown out. The issue was the 710, with both cities saying that it was wrong for Metro to include the 710 gap [continue reading]
With the Eastside Gold Line Extension now scheduled to open to the public on Nov. 15, here’s a short video of trains on the line. The video shows trains on 1st Street between the Los Angeles River and the tunnel the trains will enter to go under Boyle Heights.
It’s finally official: The Edward R. Roybal Eastside Gold Line Extension will open to the public on Sunday, Nov. 15, Metro officials announced Monday. This hasn’t exactly been a secret. Trains have been testing on the six-mile line for the past several weeks and in transit circles most people already [continue reading]
Metrolink — which is funded in part by Metro — announced today that 49 more “automatic train stop” devices were being activated along its commuter rail network in Southern California. From the news release: The ATS system includes magnetic inductors placed next to the track at locations where the train [continue reading]
The area’s bike community has long clamored for better parking facilities from the powers-that-be in city and county government. A recent post from L.A. StreetsBlog complained about the risks of parking bikes in Downtown L.A. — the problem being the bikes may be intentionally removed by property owners. Metro has [continue reading]
We posted earlier today about the upcoming public meetings on potential locations for subway stations on the Westside Extension. I had the chance to sit in on a meeting of Metro staffers last week and here are a few interesting morsels about the stations: * Stops are being studied along [continue reading]
After the Measure R half-cent sales tax was approved last year by voters, Metro officials said they would aggressively move the county’s transportation agenda forward. The tax increase took effect in July and with revenues now trickling in, planning of several rail lines is chugging along. Three Measure R projects [continue reading]
