Metro announced the closure of a segment of Crenshaw Boulevard in the Hyde Park area starting Monday, August 12, to begin the restoration phase of the Crenshaw/LAX Line. Crenshaw Boulevard [continue reading]
agenda and pdf is also here The Metro Board of Director’s meeting for March has concluded. A few items of interest: •Metro provided a progress report for the New Blue project to modernize the Blue Line. The New Blue Improvements Project is going very well. We want to thank the [continue reading]
The Blue Line will undergo a comprehensive $350-million modernization beginning Jan. 26 to improve reliability, enhance safety and improve the customer experience. From Jan. 26 to late May, Blue Line [continue reading]
Editor’s note: I’m T-minus 48 hours from ending my current exile (parents versus old age) to Southwestern Ohio and some of the most sprawliest sprawl and worst Mexican food you’ll [continue reading]
Most of the construction on the Purple Line Extension thus far has involved construction of the first three new stations. But work began this week on the critical task of [continue reading]
(*map depicts Phase 1 driving detour, for bus detour information please see below for a description.) Work on building the future Purple Line Extension station at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax [continue reading]
The news release from Metro: Crenshaw/Vernon, the third and last of the underground stations for the Crenshaw/LAX Line, will begin excavation and decking work May 31. The work will close [continue reading]
The 8.5-mile Crenshaw/LAX light rail project currently under construction will have three underground stations: Crenshaw/Exposition, Crenshaw/MLK and Crenshaw/Vernon. Excavation and decking for the stations is set to begin in November. Construction of the three stations and the 1.9-mile twin tunnels will take four years of intense and complex labor. In [continue reading]
Here is the press release from Metro: The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project contractor plans to fully close the southbound I-405 between Santa Monica Boulevard and National Boulevard in West Los Angeles on the following dates and times to facilitate the installation of a full-span freeway overhead sign and to [continue reading]
Two northbound lanes are now open on the freeway between Getty Center and Ventura Bl. — I_405 (@I_405) February 15, 2014 As we’ve been preaching, begging and imploring, please avoid the northbound 405 freeway today in the Sepulveda Pass area with repaving work now underway. The 405 over the pass [continue reading]
