I posted a link to a column by Joel Epstein in the Huffington Post the other day. In his column, Joel wrote that Metro should be pushing hard to find corporations or other entities to pick up the cost of subway stations and other transit infrastructure — kind of like [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors meets Thursday morning at Metro headquarters and votes are on tap on two big issues: The Crenshaw Line and the Harbor Subdivision. Let’s tackle Crenshaw first. In November, Metro staff recommended that the Crenshaw Line be a light rail line and also picked a route [continue reading]
I started by daily graze of today’s transportation headlines with this story in the Argonaut: El Segundo, as we reported last month, is most unhappy with a light rail maintenance facility being proposed in the city as part of the Crenshaw Line. The city of Los Angeles doesn’t want it, [continue reading]
A lot of people have been asking about the Metro Silver Line bus service that will be starting on December 13th. Well, Metro has released a bunch of new information including timetables, maps and a destination guide. We’re going to take a closer look at the information and figure out [continue reading]
The Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority is an independent agency that was set up to build the next phase of the light rail line from Pasadena to Azusa. The Authority last week released a letter to Metro about ongoing negotiations for a funding transfer agreement with the agency. [continue reading]
Work crews laid the last concrete deck on a 3 ½ level parking structure at the Atlantic station at the end of the Eastside Gold Line last week. A multi-level parking structure that will hold 280 cars is nearing completion and is targeting a late March opening. Parking will be [continue reading]
Here is the memo that Metro CEO Art Leahy sent to the agency’s Board of Directors about the stabbing aboard a Metro bus in Glendale on Monday: Bus Incident This morning, Transit Services Deputies responded to Broadway Street and Glendale Avenue in the City of Glendale regarding a fight on [continue reading]
Once again Metro is offering free rides on its buses and trains on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. both nights. So if you get carried away celebrating or just need some time to contemplate some recent misbehavior from all that celebrating, look no [continue reading]
Did you know that Wilshire Boulevard is the only street in Los Angeles to have surface-level rail banned from operating on it (although not under it) between MacArthur Park and Beverly Hills? Early 20th Century elites who built their mansions near the boulevard may have been LA’s first “NIMFYs” (Not in My [continue reading]
The Metro Library has compiled a list of transportation headlines that’s just bursting at the seams this morning. There’s so many interesting stories today it was hard for me to decide what posts I wanted to highlight – so make sure you check out the entire list. First up, the [continue reading]
