The Art of Transit today is a no-brainer, given the winter storm that has descended on the Sierra Nevada the past few days. To wit: #CAStorm @jarrettmjackson of Mammoth Lakes, #California 1/9/17: "I'm too tired from shoveling snow to tweet anything…"#StormHour pic.twitter.com/T3rScwTLuQ — Ed Joyce (@EdJoyce) January 9, 2017 Wondering [continue reading]
A federal grant and loan totaling nearly $1.6 billion to help build the second phase of the Metro Purple Line Extension to downtown Beverly Hills and Century City was announced [continue reading]
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This is good news for Metro, which had lobbied for a change in the law. The issue: up-to-now, Metro was prohibited from hiring workers based on where they lived on [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Pick your social media poison! Today’s Metro rider profile at Zocalo Public Square: Virgil Avenue to Chandler Boulevard Obama administration outlines 30-year transportation plan (Washington Post) The U.S. Department of [continue reading]
Click on photos to see larger versions please By almost any measure, 2014 was a pretty remarkable one for transportation in Los Angeles County. In the past year, Metro’s ambitious Measure R [continue reading]
The official groundbreaking for the $1.42-billion Regional Connector project is being held this morning in Little Tokyo. The 1.9-mile underground light rail line will link the Blue, Expo and Gold Lines, allowing for faster and more frequent service on Metro’s light rail lines to and through downtown Los Angeles. The project will [continue reading]
Two pieces of legislative news below from Metro CEO Art Leahy and the agency’s government relations team. The first is bad news. Due to Congress’ inability to pass a long-range transportation funding bill, the Highway Trust Fund is going broke and states on average could lose 28 percent of federal [continue reading]
The federal gas tax of 18.4 cents per gallon was last increased in 1993; it funds road and highway programs — and also provides funding for federal mass transit programs. To put it lightly, Metro relies on federal dollars in order to build new projects and ongoing maintenance, among other [continue reading]
And here is video of this morning’s groundbreaking for the Crenshaw/LAX Line. There are nice comments about mobility — and the need for more of it — from U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Metro would like to extend a special [continue reading]
