The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations on Thursday awarded $81 million in funding in the 2013 federal budget to two key Metro transit projects in Los Angeles, the Westside Subway Extension and the Regional Connector. “Thanks to the hard work of Senator Feinstein, today’s vote by the Senate Committee on [continue reading]
If anyone really needs a good argument why the Westside Subway Extension should be built, I think this map showing transit travel times to the Westwood/UCLA station from other parts of L.A. County makes a pretty compelling case. The nine-mile subway extension to Westwood would seriously improve the time [continue reading]
81 MILLION REASONS TO BE HAPPY: All things considered, I thought it was pretty amazing that President Obama’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year included $31 million in federal funds for the Regional Connector and $50 million for the Westside Subway Extension. Both, of course, are excellent and needed [continue reading]
And to go with our earlier post about proposed funding for the Regional Connector and Westside Subway Extension, here’s an update from Metro’s government relations staff: President Obama Unveils Fiscal Year 2013 Budget – Outlines Transportation Agenda – Including $81 Million In New Starts Funds For Los Angeles County Earlier [continue reading]
Metro Projects in President’s FY13 Budget Below is page 30 of the budget for the U.S. Department of Transportation that provides the details. The $81 million is very good news considering that both projects are still finishing up their final environmental study process, the necessary precursor to construction and signing [continue reading]
The Metro Regional Connector team held an open house last night in Little Tokyo to discuss the crucial Measure R project now that it has reached an important milestone: the release of its Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report (which you can find in its entirety here). As regular readers will recall, [continue reading]
Here’s the part of President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday that dealt with infrastructure: Building this new energy future should be just one part of a broader agenda to repair America’s infrastructure. So much of America needs to be rebuilt. We’ve got crumbling roads and bridges; a power [continue reading]
Here’s the update provided yesterday by Metro’s government relations team. Keep in mind this concerns next year’s federal budget — not to be confused with the multi-year transportation spending bill that is currently being written/debated/slapped together by Congress. One FYI: the New Starts program helps fund large transit projects around [continue reading]
A local — and very diverse — range of community groups sent a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein this week, asking her to continue to fight for federal New Starts funding for the Westside Subway Extension and the Regional Connector. New Starts is the federal program that helps local transit agencies [continue reading]
Attentive Source readers will recall that very un-lovely proposal made earlier this year by Republicans in the House of Representatives to sharply reduce federal funding of new transit projects. The plan would pretty much devastate the federal New Starts program, which helps local areas construct large and costly transit projects. [continue reading]
