Federal officials have denied a request by Metro to provide $77.6 million in the coming year’s federal budget to be used for preliminary engineering on the Westside Subway Extension and Downtown Regional Connector projects. At the same time, federal officials say they are diligently working with Metro to advance planning [continue reading]
Welcome to Twitter Tuesday, a weekly feature here at The Source where we’ll round up the latest Metro related tweets in the Twitterverse. To follow Metro on Twitter just search for @MetroLosAngeles. We recommend adding the #MetroLosAngeles tag to your tweets to get our attention. Metro Line 232, which travels [continue reading]
More rain in the Southland translates to no full freeway closures on the northbound 405 tonight, nor are there any ramp closures. Current plans call for a full closure late Wednesday and early Thursday between the 10 freeway and Santa Monica Boulevard. You can get project updates at www.metro.net/I-405 and [continue reading]
This item was in Metro CEO’s daily email to staff on Monday. The good news is that the driver is apparently okay, but the incident is, of course, frightening. The Metro Freeway Service Patrol drivers are already working in a dangerous environment by helping stranded motorists along busy roads, and [continue reading]
The L.A. Times has an editorial on Metro’s projected $251-million operating deficit in the next fiscal year and offers a proposal on how to fix it — raise fares. The article notes that L.A.’s fares are significantly lower than most U.S. cities and fares only cover about 26% of operating [continue reading]
One of the goals of The Source is to give readers an idea of what’s happening with mass transit and urban planning outside Los Angeles County. In that vein, a fascinating, and sad, story was recently published in the Financial Times about the thousands of stray dogs roaming Moscow. Many [continue reading]
With rain in the forecast for Tuesday, there will be no full freeway closures tonight as part of the project to add a northbound carpool lane to the 405 freeway between the 10 and 101 freeways. The current schedule now has full closures between the 10 and Santa Monica Boulevard [continue reading]
Hat tip to one of my favorite blogs, The Bus Bench, for posting a link to this video on their Facebook page. The video from Planet Green has car-free author and correspondent Chris Balish getting around Los Angeles on his bike and Metro buses. Chris, who wrote a book in [continue reading]
I really should have been a scientist. Fox News reports that slime mold expands in a way that mimics road and rail networks and that slime mold is perhaps better at building such networks than, say, urban planners. In other words, give me a map and some slime mold and [continue reading]
Metro CEO Art Leahy included this item in his daily email to staff on Friday: Proposed Second Federal Stimulus Bill On December 16, 2009, the House passed a second fiscal stimulus bill, H.R. 2847. The Senate will begin consideration of their version of a stimulus bill later this month and [continue reading]
