The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) will be holding a series of Transportation Development Act (TDA) Article 8 public hearings for the use of TDA Article 8 funds in the North County and the City of Avalon. The TDA Article 8 funds are for those areas of Los [continue reading]
Metro Directors Don Knabe and Diane DuBois, along with other Metro, Caltrans and CHP officials broke ground Thursday on a $14-million sound wall project along the 605 freeway in the city of Whittier and unincorporated county. The project consists of approximately three miles of sound walls on both sides of [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors holds their final meeting of the year tomorrow at 9 a.m. at Metro headquarters next to Los Angeles Union Station. The meeting, as always, is open to the public. Here’s the agenda. A few items worth watching: •(Item 11) The Board will consider amending an [continue reading]
View Larger Map Public officials held a groundbreaking on Wednesday morning for a project to improve the Carmenita/I-5 interchange. As the Google satellite view above shows, the bridge is two lanes wide at present. A new bridge will widen it to 10 lanes, according to Caltrans, with a scheduled completion [continue reading]
The regular monthly meeting of the Metro Board is scheduled for 9 a.m. tomorrow on the 3rd floor of Metro headquarters adjacent to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Meetings, of course, are open to the public. Here’s the agenda. And here is a quick preview of two items likely [continue reading]
Metro Board Chairman Don Knabe and Metro CEO Art Leahy are in Sacramento today, lobbying state lawmakers to not drastically cut funding in the ongoing state budget negotiations. Above, that’s Knabe meeting this morning with Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal, who chairs the Assembly’s transportation committee. Of course, Lowenthal is also a [continue reading]
The project will add turn lanes, bike lanes and video detection at the intersection of Lindero Canyon and Agoura roads — a major junction just south of the 101 freeway. It’s the first of 18 Measure R road projects that will get underway this year. Here’s the news release from [continue reading]
Below is the written testimony submitted to the Congressional transportation funding hearing this morning by Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Member Antonio Villaraigosa. I think it’s worth noting that both Mayor Villaraigosa and Supervisor Don Knabe — here is his testimony — emphasized that changes in federal law sought [continue reading]
A joint hearing was held in Westwood this morning of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The respective chairs of those committees, Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. John Mica, were both in attendance. Both will play big roles [continue reading]
Here’s the statement, issued Wednesday morning by County Supervisor Don Knabe, who is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Metro: Metro is encouraged by last night’s State of the Union speech where President Obama talked about the nation’s crumbling infrastructure and his commitment to redoubling efforts to [continue reading]
