Metro’s “Community Conversations” are online meetings hosted by community leaders to help us learn the histories, art, activism and cultural assets of the neighborhoods that shape Los Angeles County. Our [continue reading]
Above is a section of the Purple Line Extension tunnel between La Brea and Western. The video is taken from the loci train that is used to haul workers [continue reading]
It’s official. Elsie, Metro’s second tunnel boring machine for the first section of the Purple Line Extension, has made it to Wilshire/Western Station in Koreatown. The Goliath-sized TBM made it [continue reading]
•Dept. of Reminder: rail service on the southern section of the Blue Line resumes on Saturday while rail service between 7th/Metro and 103rd St/Watts will be replaced by bus shuttles through September. This is part of the New Blue work to modernize the Blue Line. Please see this post for [continue reading]
No one likes to “spring forward” but alas, until the time remains the same year-round, we’re all turning our clocks one hour ahead this Sunday. That means many of us [continue reading]
The Federal Transit Administration this week approved Metro’s request to be reimbursed for early work activities for Section Three of the Purple Line Extension Project between Century City and the Westwood/VA Hospital. The approval also clears the way for Metro to take advantage of highly competitive tunnel contract bids, which [continue reading]
Take a little more transit and eat a little less meat — two things you can do to reduce your impact on the environment. In this installment of Meatless Mondays [continue reading]
Metro joined local, state and federal officials today to break ground on Section 2 of the Metro Purple Line Extension Project that will add 2.6-miles of new subway service to [continue reading]
Metro is working to connect the Purple Line Extension to the existing Purple Line at Wilshire/Western Station. To expedite decking and to support construction activities in this very dense and [continue reading]
With the turning of the calendar, we thought it would be a good time to provide an update on one of our key transit projects: the nine-mile extension of the [continue reading]
