We posted last year about a Measure R project to add tolled HOV lanes to 13.5 miles of the 5 freeway in the Santa Clarita Valley between the 14 freeway and Parker Road. Vehicles with one or two occupants would pay a toll while vehicles with three or more occupants could use [continue reading]
Interesting motion above that was approved today by the Metro Board. My read on the motion: it’s three members of the Metro Board — Eric Garcetti, Michael D. Antonovich and Diane DuBois — asking Metro to step up its game when it comes to developing public-private partnerships to help fund [continue reading]
Northbound I-5 at SR-2 remains closed after a tanker fire this past Saturday damaged the tunnel beneath I-5. Here’s the latest from Caltrans on what’s open and what’s closed: OPEN Northbound I-5 is open at Glendale Boulevard. The northbound SR-2 connector to southbound I-5 is open. Southbound SR-2 is open through [continue reading]
I-5 HOT lanes meeting notice The meeting notice is above; the meeting is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. this Thursday, March 28, at Santa Clarita City Hall in the Council chambers. The project proposes to accelerate the construction of 13.5 miles of HOV lanes by making them HOT lanes [continue reading]
The project that broke ground this morning will widen the 5 freeway for 1.2 miles between Shoemaker and Silverbow avenues by adding a general purpose lane and HOV lane in both directions. The project will also widen three bridges over the freeway — at Shoemaker, Rosecrans and Bloomfield. Metro is [continue reading]
The long-awaited connector allows motorists in the HOV lanes on the 5 and 14 freeways to remain in the HOV lanes while traveling between the two freeways. It opened in late December and a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Friday morning to celebrate the project, which began in 2008 and cost [continue reading]
I posted an update last week on the transit projects funded by Measure R. Some of the major road projects get their turn today. The following list just looks at some of the major road projects that are benefiting from Measure R dollars. Many other smaller projects around Los Angeles [continue reading]
Caltrans and Metro announced Monday that construction will begin on the I-5 Widening and Alondra Boulevard Bridge Project, the second segment of the I-5 South Corridor Improvement Project that runs from the Los Angeles/Orange County Line to the I-605. Last fall, Caltrans began the first of six I-5 corridor improvement projects totaling more [continue reading]
photo by johnsnape, via Flickr I know what you’re thinking: this photo was taken during Carmageddon in July. Nope — look a little closer. This is San Diego County — see the exit to the 8 freeway. How did the photographer get the shot? He kept the shutter open for [continue reading]
Nothing like triple digit temperatures to bust some sod, but that’s exactly what public officials did this morning in the San Fernando Valley on a project that will add 3.4 miles of HOV lane to both directions of the Golden State Freeway between the 170 and 118 freeways. The $140.2-million [continue reading]
