By now it should be no secret that a massive chunk of the 405 freeway will be closing the weekend of July 15 – the big countdown clock on our sidebar kind of gives it away. If the countdown clock, press releases and media coverage (“carmageddon” anyone?) haven’t made it [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. Study: $2 trillion needed for U.S. infrastructure (Washington Post) The results of a new study from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) echo [continue reading]
In late January, three days before nearby pile driving would begin, two members of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project team stood before 35 kindergarten and first-graders to demonstrate how bridges are built. Using a handmade bridge model, potting soil, chocolate pudding, nails and a glass of water, Kasey Shuda, [continue reading]
On a typical Wednesday in February 2009, over 120,000 vehicles flow east and west past Veteran Avenue on Wilshire Boulevard. If only one person sits in each car — not entirely impossible in Southern California, although unlikely — the number of people traveling on that stretch of Wilshire would exceed [continue reading]
L.A. Streetsblog recently ran an interesting post that pointed out that the number of carpoolers in Los Angeles County has declined between the year 2000 and 2009, according to Census Bureau numbers. The decline, Streetsblog suggested, should lead Metro to better evaluate whether it’s worth spending money on HOV lanes [continue reading]
Southland transit agencies handed out Golden Pylon Awards Wednesday to the region’s top traffic reporters. The awards honor the reporters whose on-air traffic talk helps promote carpool lanes, vanpools and public transportation. The Golden Pylon Awards is a traditional prelude to 2010 Rideshare Week, which begins Monday, Oct. 4. Rideshare [continue reading]
The key word in the headline is ‘could.’ Here’s the news, from Metro CEO Art Leahy’s daily email to staff: Our contractor for the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project, Kiewit Infrastructure Group, has informed us that the contractor’s Local 12 Operating Engineers Union has called a strike following unsuccessful labor [continue reading]
Following six nights of Sunset Bridge demolition work that began Friday, July 23, the contractor for the northbound I-405 Sepulveda Pass carpool lane project will continue the demolition of the bridge for one additional night to remove center columns. The work is anticipated to start tonight, July 29, for one [continue reading]
Here are some photos of the demolition of the Sunset Boulevard bridge over the 405 freeway that began this past weekend. The bridge is being widened and rebuilt as part of the project to add a carpool lane on the northbound 405 between the Santa Monica and Ventura freeways.
Demolition — or reconstruction, depending on your point of view — of the Sunset Boulevard bridge over the 405 freeway began over the weekend. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s website has a nice story with photos of the bridge when it was shiny and new and the freeway wasn’t disguising itself as [continue reading]
