The Metro Board of Directors last year decided to build a new rail station at Aviation and 96th Street that will allow passengers on the Crenshaw/LAX Line and Green Line to transfer to a people mover to be built by Los Angeles World Airports, which operates LAX. This is part of [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. First train car pulled along Gold Line tracks in Arcadia, Monrovia (San Gabriel Valley Tribune) Good coverage of the clearance testing that began Monday for [continue reading]
The Metro Board held their final meeting of 2014 this morning; audio of the meeting can be heard by clicking here. It was a short agenda with three receive-and-file items (in other words, items that serve as reports and don’t require a Board vote) on areas of reader interest: •The Board received [continue reading]
One of the ongoing projects that we’ve been following closely is the Airport Metro Connector, which seeks to connect the terminals at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with the growing Metro Rail network. This is obviously a project of great interest given that LAX is the third busiest airport in [continue reading]
The Metro Board spent nearly two hours discussing which alternatives to study in the draft environmental study for the Airport Metro Connector project. The bottom line: •Four alternatives recommended by Metro staff (staff report) will go forward into the draft environmental impact study, the document required by law before anything [continue reading]
