The agency’s Board of Directors voted Thursday to launch a new round of studies to consider how to improve traffic in the area around the gap in the 710 freeway between Alhambra and Pasadena. Here’s the link to the report on the issue by Metro staff. The studies will initially [continue reading]
Metro held a live web chat yesterday with Mike Barbour, the chief of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project, which is adding a carpool lane on the northbound 405 between the 10 and 101 freeways, among other improvements. Barbour fielded questions from readers. The transcript is below — and here’s [continue reading]
As the Expo Line is under construction between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City, there remains one street-level crossing that needs state approval: at Farmdale Avenue, adjacent to Dorsey High School in South L.A. The original plan for the line was to have the tracks cross Farmdale at street level [continue reading]
Mike Barbour, Project Director of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project, will be at the helm of today’s chat – giving an overview of the project and answering your questions during the hour long session. To join in, point your browsers to http://www.metro.net/news/pages/livechat/ at noon.
Kay Greeley freely admits that she is a tree hugger. She estimates that she has examined 50,000 trees during her career, which is a large number of hugs by any measure. Greeley even has favorite trees: two native oaks (coast live oak and valley oak) and the California sycamore. “I [continue reading]
This is sort of a back-to-the-future type post, with the emphasis on “back.” Attentive Source readers will recall the 1990s when electric car charging stations started popping up around California, the hope being that the state was on the verge of an electric car revolution. For a number of reasons [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy announced today that Martha Welborne has been hired as the new chief planning officer for Metro. Welborne is an architect who has been working with the Zimmer Gunsul Frasca firm in Los Angeles (here’s the firm’s bio of her) and also has been serving as the [continue reading]
In Wednesday’s transpo headlines, we had an item about a speech that Federal Transit Administration chief Peter Rogoff gave at a transit conference this week. Rogoff made some pointed remarks, challenging transit officials to think about whether it was best to improve maintenance of their systems before expanding them. He [continue reading]
The Power Point presentation used at Tuesday night’s community meeting to discuss subway tunneling under residential properties is now online. It provides a nice overview of the issues involved in routing the subway from Century City to Westwood. And here’s a link to our post from earlier this week that [continue reading]
There’s been some murmurings about town recently about building monorails-along-freeways as a mass transit fix for the region. As long-time transit observers know, the monorail idea has, in fact, been kicked around before. The above plan, floated in 1960, never got airborne because of community opposition, in particular, to an [continue reading]
