Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Eric Garcetti today toured the new Little Tokyo/Arts District Station that is under construction as part of the Regional Connector project. A tunnel [continue reading]
Regional Connector crews last weekend extracted the tunnel boring machine (TBM) cutterhead and one shield segment from underground — at 4th and Flower streets in downtown Los Angeles. The TBM [continue reading]
More on the monorail story we mentioned yesterday…. L.A. mayor thinks a monorail over the 405 Freeway could tame traffic gridlock (LAT) During a radio interview earlier this week, L.A. [continue reading]
The issue for Metro is that the White House budget proposal released earlier this week does not include federal funding for section three of the Purple Line Extension subway between Century City and Westwood. Metro needs a federal grant to pair with local funds to build that third section. The [continue reading]
ICYMI: Excavation of the twin tunnels under Crenshaw Boulevard was completed Thursday morning. The project is forecast to open in fall 2019. ICYMI 2: And work continues at the future [continue reading]
A federal grant and loan totaling nearly $1.6 billion to help build the second phase of the Metro Purple Line Extension to downtown Beverly Hills and Century City was announced [continue reading]
A ceremonial naming and lowering of the tunnel boring machine that will dig the twin tunnels for the Regional Connector project in downtown L.A. was held today in Little Tokyo [continue reading]
Nice video from our Regional Connector team. The tunnel boring machine for the project is expected to be launched underground later this year. The TBM will eventually dig two tunnels [continue reading]
Art of Transit: Developers are winning Miracle Mile’s density battles — and screwing over residents (LA Weekly) The article takes a skeptical view of the new residential/commercial structures, museum expansions and the [continue reading]
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