Here’s the news release from Metro: Metro ExpressLanes, an innovative project to reduce traffic congestion, will debut Los Angeles County’s first HOT (High Occupancy Toll) lanes on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 12:01 a.m., opening 11 miles of carpool lanes on the 110 Harbor Freeway to solo drivers who pay an [continue reading]
Here is the news release from Metro: Reaching a significant milestone in an innovative project to ease traffic congestion on two of Los Angeles County’s busiest freeways, Metro today celebrated the opening of the 5,000th FasTrak® account for traveling on the Metro ExpressLanes when they open on the I-110 Harbor [continue reading]
Here’s the news release from the Auto Club: Beginning today, all Automobile Club of Southern California branches are offering Metro ExpressLane transponders at a 20 percent discount exclusively for Auto Club members. Currently, Auto Club branches are the only retail locations outside of Metro customer centers where the transponders can [continue reading]
Metro and Caltrans offcials who today announced the opening of the Metro ExpressLanes Customer Walk-in Center in Gardena where the public can open a FasTrak® account and receive a FasTrak® [continue reading]
The news: the transponders that are required to use the ExpressLanes are now available online, at a new customer centers in Gardena and El Monte and through the Auto Club. A press event is being held this morning and all the details are below in the news release from Metro: [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 Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. Authority puts $1.75 million toward Metrolink station at Bob Hope [continue reading]
Here’s the good word from the ExpressLanes project (pdf here): ExpressLanes Construction Notice
The target opening date is now November of this year for the 110 freeway part of the project. The news release from Metro is below and here is the ExpressLanes home page. Construction work on the Harbor Freeway Transitway portion of the ExpressLanes project is nearing completion with Metro [continue reading]
How do they do that? is a series for The Source that explores the technology that helps keep Metro running and passengers and other commuters moving. Some of it applies directly to the trains, buses and freeways and some of it runs in the background — invisible to nearly everyone [continue reading]
Motorists and bus riders on the 110 freeway will continue to see signs (literally) of progress on the ExpressLanes project, which opens this fall. The project is converting the carpool lanes between Adams Boulevard in downtown L.A. and the Artesia Transit Center into HOT lanes. Carpoolers will still travel in [continue reading]
