Fresh pics: Crenshaw/LAX Line construction
The photos are going from north to south along the 8.5-mile route for the Crenshaw/LAX Line. I posted a map of the light rail line at the very bottom of [continue reading]
Fresh pics: Crenshaw/LAX Line work
Photos are from south to north. Credit: Metro. Northern Segment Where under Crenshaw Boulevard is “Harriet” the tunnel boring machine? Harriet has been moving southbound under Crenshaw Boulevard and is [continue reading]
Photos: Crenshaw/LAX Line construction February update
Here is the latest rundown of construction activities along the 8.5-mile Crenshaw/LAX Line corridor. The contractor building the project is Walsh Shea Corridor Constructors, also known as WSCC. There’s a [continue reading]
Regional Connector Little Tokyo update: paving, potholing and pouring concrete
Regional Connector work continues on schedule in Little Tokyo, with the Little Tokyo/Arts District Station expected to reopen in March. More info here about the bus shuttle replacing Gold Line service between Union [continue reading]
Pics: Regional Connector construction
Work on the Regional Connector project continues to ramp up, as the above photos show. The first five pics are of the work to move the Gold Line tracks on 1st [continue reading]
Pics: early work on the Regional Connector tunnel entrance in Little Tokyo
Attentive readers know that the Gold Line’s Little Tokyo/Arts District Station closed on Friday evening. The closure will continue until late March so that the tracks in the middle of 1st Street can be temporarily moved to the north side of the street in order to construct the entrance to a [continue reading]
December update on Crenshaw/LAX Line work
The Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project is moving forward in December with construction of the three underground stations, the six bridges and two underground, cut-and-cover segments underway. In Inglewood, work on the right-of-way, [continue reading]
Construction activities in July on Crenshaw/LAX Line
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES Park Mesa Heights Cut and Cover Construction will soon begin on the underground trench for the alignment between 59th and 60th streets and in the right-of-way from Crenshaw Boulevard to Brynhurst Avenue with a traffic reconfiguration on July 10. Trench construction will take place in various stages and is anticipated [continue reading]
One year after groundbreaking, Crenshaw/LAX Line project moving forward on many fronts
The groundbreaking for the Crenshaw/LAX Line was one year ago this week. That makes this a good time to look back at the progress on the 8.5-mile, $2.058-billion light rail [continue reading]
2014: A milestone year for Metro
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]