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]
I’m well aware that audio of government meetings holds limited appeal to Normal People. That said, I think most of us would agree that it’s welcome news that the Metro Board’s new Customer Experience Committee held its first meeting on Thursday. “We have to start thinking customers first. We have [continue reading]
A new set of alternatives to improve the 710 freeway between Ocean Boulevard in downtown Long Beach and the SR-60 was released today in an environmental document by Caltrans. One [continue reading]
On July 12th, @metrolosangeles used Twitter to crowdsource questions about the two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that are currently being manufactured and will dig the tunnels for the Purple Line [continue reading]
Nice new video from a key Measure M project: extending the Gold Line from its current terminus in Azusa to Claremont — the part of the project funded by Metro. The tracks to Montclair will need to be funded by San Bernardino County, which has committed some of the necessary funds. [continue reading]
