photo by Darrell Clarke Check it out! A local photograph for our “art of transit” series. The recently taken image above shows the under-construction Expo Line tracks looking north to their junction with the existing Blue Line tracks at the intersection of Washington and Flower in downtown L.A. Darrell has [continue reading]
The Regional Connector Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Report officially goes public Friday. While it may not be quite as sexy a project as the Westside Subway Extension that follows a similar Measure R project timeline, it does something the subway project does not: it connects four light rail corridors covering [continue reading]
Former L.A. Weekly writer Harold Meyerson has an op-ed supporting the 30/10 Initiative in this morning’s L.A. Times. Meyerson, long known as an advocate for labor, had a similar piece earlier this year in the Washington Post, where he is now a columnist. Attentive readers already know that the 30/10 [continue reading]
As anyone who lives or works in the area has seen in recent months, the Expo Line between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City is making some serious progress — it’s starting to look like a real rail line. The recent state approval of a new station at Farmdale Avenue [continue reading]
Carter Rubin, a regular Source reader, recently emailed us a good question: I’ve been seeing all these nice areal structures going up for the Expo Line and thinking about how great it’s going to be to have Expo come out to me in Culver City. But I’m concerned that as [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]
A new Expo Line station for Farmdale Avenue that is adjacent to Dorsey High School was unanimously approved by the California Public Utilties Commission on Thursday, paving the way for completion of the first phase of the project between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City. It is expected that the [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]
The Board of Directors of Metro met Thursday for their regular monthly session (here’s a link to the agenda). It was also the first meeting run by the new chairman of the Board of Directors, Supervisor Don Knabe. Here are a few highlights of issues they tackled that I thought [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]
