The PowerPoint presentation that Metro staffers gave the public at last week’s meeting about whether to build a subway station at Crenshaw and Wilshire boulevards is online and available for download. It provides a basic overview of the subway planning process and the issues involved in whether a subway station [continue reading]
Five public meetings will be held beginning tonight in Los Angeles to discuss information about stations along the future Crenshaw Line. The light rail line will run between Crenshaw and Exposition boulevards in the north to the Green Line and Aviation Boulevard in the south and is scheduled to open [continue reading]
Here’s the latest construction notice for the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project. The contractor is planning to take soil stability tests needed for the future construction of retaining walls along the I-405. Work is planned beginning Monday, March 22 for about four days near the Getty View Trailhead that runs [continue reading]
A 58-page color booklet of the long-range plan adopted by the Metro Board of Directors last October is now online. You can download or view a copy by clicking here. There’s nothing new in the document — but it’s a much more visual display of the plan for both the [continue reading]
A little news out of the Metro Board of Director’s planning committee meeting on Wednesday: A funding transfer agreement with the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority was moved to the full Metro Board for their consideration at next Thursday’s meeting. I know. That sounds like a bunch of bureaucratic [continue reading]
3/22/10 UPDATE: Utility relocation activities on Sepulveda Boulevard have been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 24. Metro has issued a new I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project construction notice for utility relocation work starting this Friday, March 19 that will last about eight weeks. Work will consist of undergrounding overhead power lines [continue reading]
The shovel, so to speak, hit the ground this morning as part of the planning process for the Crenshaw Line light rail project. Soil testing begun in order to determine what’s literally in the dirt, since a fair amount of it will be moved as part of the construction process. [continue reading]
As expected and as was widely reported yesterday, the group Neighbors for Smart Rail has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the second phase of the Expo Line, which will run from Culver City to Santa Monica. The project, which was part of the Measure R package [continue reading]
Last week we posed the question: should the Westside subway have a Crenshaw station? Emails poured in from readers eager to share their opinion, hence this special edition of our reader email roundup. Remember, Metro is holding a community meeting on March 17th about this very issue. If you can’t [continue reading]
When voters approved Measure R in 2008, they were voting for a plan that proposed to raise sales taxes in Los Angeles County by a half-cent for 30 years. In return, voters would get about $40 billion in transit, road and other transportation improvements. But not $40 billion of fixes [continue reading]
