Green Line stations reopen Sunday
Great news for Green Line riders: work on connecting the Crenshaw/LAX Line and the Green Line tracks will be completed nearly one week earlier than scheduled. As a result, the [continue reading]
$482 million in state transportation funds awarded to Metro for several projects
pdf here This is wonky but significant: Metro announced today that it will receive $482 million from the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) to help pay for a road safety project, a key transit project in the San Fernando Valley and a program to replace aging buses, as well as [continue reading]
Business Interruption Fund spotlight: Café Creole
Photos by Juan Ocampo for Metro. Café Creole is one of the premier eateries along the alignment of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project. The restaurant opened in 2014 and is located [continue reading]
New fossils from Purple Line work
Here’s a fun fact: paleontologists estimate that less than one percent of life on earth turns into fossils. That’s why all fossils are of interest. They’re rare. Rare as they [continue reading]
Agenda for March 22 meeting of Metro Board of Directors
PDF of agenda here The Metro Board of Directors meets Thursday at 9 a.m. for their regular monthly meeting. The agenda is above. The meeting will be webcast. Click on the ‘listen’ tab that will appear on this page once the meeting begins. The agenda is on the light side [continue reading]
Metro launches pilot contractor development and bonding program for small, disadvantaged and disabled veteran-owned businesses
Metro has implemented a one-year pilot program to assist Metro-certified Small Business Enterprise (SBE), Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) firms secure sufficient bonding to work on Metro construction projects. Metro will provide a bonding guarantee to qualified SBE, DBE, and DVBE firms to expand their [continue reading]
Metro to host Telephone Town Halls on April 4 & 5 to gather input about the agency’s FY 2019 budget and NextGen Bus Study
Metro will host two live, interactive telephone town hall meetings from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday April 4 and Thursday, April 5, to talk about your tax dollars at work and how they are being invested in the transportation revolution now in progress in Los Angeles County. Along [continue reading]
Draft study released for Division 20 Portal Widening/Turnback project
Update: you can watch/listen to a public hearing for the project that took place on April 12. *** A Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) has been released for a project that [continue reading]
Upcoming nighttime street closure for Patsaouras Bus Plaza Station Project
Center Street between Ramirez St. and Commercial St. will be closed from March 21 through March 24 between the hours of 9 a.m. to 6 a.m. for Patsaouras Bus Plaza Station [continue reading]
SB 1 supports jobs, economic activity and investment in California, new report finds
An economic impact report for SB 1 has been released by the California Alliance for Jobs, the California Transit Assn. and Transportation California. The report is above (or pdf here). As we posted last week, the state of California is considering the first allocations from SB 1. Metro is not [continue reading]