I mentioned in the transportation headlines this morning that the U.S. Department of Transportation had released its annual compendium of transpo stats–in this case, covering the year 2008. The timing is convenient since today is also the 20thanniversary of the opening of the Blue Line and the beginning of Metro [continue reading]
If you haven’t cast a vote yet, you are just one mouse click away from registering an opinion on this important issue for the Westside Subway Extension. We have 477 votes so far and I’d like to see that reach 1,000 — this kind of info is helpful to Metro [continue reading]
The advocacy group Move LA has started an online petition for those who support the 30/10 Initiative — the plan to use federal loans and other financing to build a dozen Measure R transit projects in 10 years instead of 30. The 30/10 Initiative is official Metro policy. Move LA [continue reading]
As we approach the noon hour, 267 readers have cast a vote in the above poll and 59% say they want a Westside Subway Extension station at Crenshaw. If you haven’t voted, please do so. If you have voted and know of any transit-minded friends or acquaintances who are interested [continue reading]
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]
