It was a mostly quiet agenda, but these three items may be of interest: •Item 20. The Board approved a motion by Board Member Mark Ridley-Thomas to provide $2.8 million in funding to continue environmental studies and planning work for a walking and bike path on the Harbor Subdivision right-of-way that [continue reading]
In 2013, Supervisors and Metro Board Members Mark Ridley-Thomas and Gloria Molina began promoting a proposal to build an 8.3-mile pedestrian and bike path that would connect the future Crenshaw/LAX Line to the Los Angeles River. The path would follow the old Harbor Subdivision rail right-of-way that Metro owns and that [continue reading]
Waterford to Constitution Bikepath Closure Revised Notice The closure of the bike path that runs along the west side of the I-405 will be extended until Sunday, December 22, due to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power work on a valve in the area.
Attention all cyclists: the bike path along the west side of the southbound I-405 from Waterford St. to Constitution Ave. will be closed from Monday, Oct. 21 to Saturday, Nov. 30 due to construction of a drainage system at Waterford/Church. Construction will require excavation, saw cutting of the sidewalk and [continue reading]
Grab your bike and head to the beach with Metro, C.I.C.L.E. and Walk ‘N Rollers on Saturday, June 29. The bike ride will traverse the Ballona Creek Bike Path, which is fully protected and perfect for those who may not be super confident about bicycling out and about yet. Meet fellow [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. How L.A.’s first toll road could help reduce traffic (KCET [continue reading]
In addition to the new four miles of busway, the Orange Line Extension features four new miles of bike lane and walking path between Canoga station and the Chatsworth train station. Check out this story on Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s website. The accompanying photos were taken by Metro’s Dave Sotero, an [continue reading]
Here’s a nice video posted to YouTube by the Culver City Times of the train ride from the La Cienega/Jefferson station to the Culver City station, which opened yesterday. The video offers a nice view of the new separated bike path along that segment of the line, as well as [continue reading]
photo by Zach Behrens, via Instagram Nice spring-themed photo taken earlier this month of the bike path along the Orange Line. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet it to @metrolosangeles with an #artoftransit hashtag. Many [continue reading]
