Construction of the Crenshaw/LAX Line is moving along well with the project on track, pun intended, for a fall 2019 opening. Above are some new pics from the Downtown Inglewood [continue reading]
Redondo Boulevard at Florence Avenue will be permanently closed on Friday in preparation of upcoming construction activities for the Crenshaw/LAX Line. Cars will not be able to turn from Redondo onto Florence or vice versa. The closure is being done so that the old railroad tracks can be removed and new [continue reading]
Officials this morning celebrated the groundbreaking of the $215 million I-5/Florence Avenue Interchange Project in Downey. Representing Metro at the press event were L.A. County Supervisor and Metro Board [continue reading]
We posted last week about plans to remove about 135 trees along Wilshire Boulevard to accommodate the first phase of the Purple Line Extension. This week we are posting about similar tree removal plans for the Crensaw/LAX Line, a subject tackled in a story published Monday in the L.A. Times. The [continue reading]
For those who were interested in yesterday's “then & now” post from Florence Avenue, below are a few more then & now photos taken along or near the alignment for the Crenshaw/LAX Line project (the project map is at the end of this post). One other note: all the streetcar [continue reading]
The top photo was taken in 1955 in front of Inglewood Park Cemetery on Florence Avenue. I took the bottom photo this afternoon from about the same spot, although I didn’t quite nail the exact framing as the ’55 photo. What else is different? At some point the streetcar tracks [continue reading]
