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]
If you’re interested in the Westside Subway Extension project, this letter from Rep. Henry Waxman is well worth reading. It’s short but addresses a CRITICAL topic — how the Federal Transit Administration evaluates the project to determine if it’s eligible for federal funding. In Waxman’s view, the entire Subway Extension [continue reading]
Let’s face it: if someone showed up at your home’s front door one day and suggested they were considering building a subway under your lovely domicile, you might have a few questions. That is precisely the reason that tonight’s community meeting for the Westside Subway Extension is being held. Project [continue reading]
The California Transportation Commission is scheduled to vote this week on $91 million in state funding for the Colton Crossing project — a vote that also has implications for the anti-collision rail safety project known as positive train control (PTC). The Commission meets Wednesday and Thursday in Sacramento; here’s the [continue reading]
Trying to plot strategies for avoiding 405 construction traffic? Dreaming of the best way over (or around) the Sunset Bridge while it’s being widened? We’re now taking advance questions. They’ll be answered live by Mike Barbour, Project Director of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project during a live chat on [continue reading]
