The Regional Connector Community Leadership Council invites you to hear about station area accomplishments, upcoming meetings and construction activities. In addition, the council will welcome Clare DeBriere, Executive Vice President [continue reading]
More Regional Connector utility relocation work will start this Saturday, August 23. The work will require 2nd Street between Spring and Broadway to be fully closed for four weeks. Here’s the press release from Metro: As part of advanced relocation of utilities to pave the way for the construction of [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 blog. MTA to choose routes for Westside subway, downtown light-rail connector (L.A. Times) The Times takes a look at the big infrastructure decisions [continue reading]
The 30/10 Initiative got some nice coverage this weekend from local AP scribe Daisy Nguyen. Her story hit the wires today and I see it’s already been picked up by the Washington Post. Attentive readers already know that the 30/10 plan proposes to use federal loans, grants and other financing [continue reading]
The transportation advocacy group Move LA has scheduled a rally for Friday, Aug. 13, to rally the troops to support the 30/10 Initiative. See the flier at right. This is the same group that cleverly started the 30/10 online petition. The 30/10 plan was officially adopted as Metro policy this [continue reading]
We’ve spent plenty of time looking back, with this past Wednesday being the 20th anniversary of the Blue Line and the birth of Metro Rail. I wanted to look forward today and provide a quick update where future Metro Rail projects were in the pipeline. The list below is of [continue reading]
This isn’t the easiest issue to get our brains wrapped around — nothing involving transportation funding ever is. But this post involves good news for the Westside Subway Extension, with a letter from Federal Transit Administration chief Peter Rogoff to Rep. Henry Waxman reaffirming his agency’s desire to see the [continue reading]
There was an intriguing discussion on Thursday in the Construction Committee of the Metro Board of Directors involving different tunneling methods that could be used on the Westside Subway Extension and other Metro projects that may require tunneling such as the Downtown Regional Connector, the Crenshaw Line and a 710 [continue reading]
I was (predictably) hiking in Yosemite on Friday when the news broke in L.A. that U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood had expressed his strongest support to date of the 30/10 Initiative AND that the federal government was also supportive of doing the engineering work for the Westside Subway Extension all [continue reading]
In Wednesday’s transpo headlines, we had an item about a speech that Federal Transit Administration chief Peter Rogoff gave at a transit conference this week. Rogoff made some pointed remarks, challenging transit officials to think about whether it was best to improve maintenance of their systems before expanding them. He [continue reading]
