The Union Station Forecourt and Esplanade project’s draft environmental impact report was released today and the document and appendices are now online. The goal of the project is to better [continue reading]
Regional Connector crews last weekend extracted the tunnel boring machine (TBM) cutterhead and one shield segment from underground — at 4th and Flower streets in downtown Los Angeles. The TBM [continue reading]
Visitors to the Port Of Los Angeles can now access numerous popular waterfront destinations by bicycle thanks to a newly launched bike sharing system provided by Metro and the Port [continue reading]
Metro today launched Workforce Initiative Now-LA (WIN-LA), a groundbreaking workforce development program focused on creating career pathways in the transportation industry. Today’s event in downtown Los Angeles introduced WIN-LA to prime [continue reading]
You can view the agenda online or download it here. The agenda includes links to all staff reports. Among the actions taken by the Metro Board of Directors today: •The Board approved three contracts for new Metro buses, with two of those for a total of 95 electric buses. Please see this [continue reading]
Attentive Source readers know that the Metro Board has adopted a policy of converting Metro’s entire fleet of buses to zero emission vehicles by 2030. The bus fleet is currently powered entirely by compressed natural gas, which burns much cleaner than the diesel fuel which previously fueled the fleet. A fully [continue reading]
New footage from the Regional Connector project in downtown Los Angeles shows how the tunnel boring machine has completed building the first of two twin tunnels under the city center. Work [continue reading]
Photos by Gary Leonard/Metro Marc Foxx Gallery, located along Section 1 of the Purple Line Extension, has been in its current mid-Wilshire location since 1997. The gallery is owned by [continue reading]
A project focused on the Crenshaw/Slauson area was selected from a pool of over 130 applications nationwide for a creative placemaking grant from Transportation for America’s Cultural Corridor Consortium program. Led by the local non-profit LA Commons, with technical assistance provided by Metro Art, the grant will fund the gathering [continue reading]
Fifteen nights of full and partial closures on the I-405 freeway will begin Monday, July 31, to accommodate construction of a bridge for the Crenshaw/LAX Line. The work is being [continue reading]
