11-month closure of 2nd and Broadway begins Feb. 27
A full closure of the 2nd Street and Broadway intersection in downtown Los Angeles will start as early as 7 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, and will last through November 2016. During [continue reading]
How We Roll: would the Expo Line have won KPCC’s bike-car-transit race to SaMo?
Art of Transit: Things to listen to whilst transiting — Judge John Hodgman live at SF Sketchfest All the cases heard before a live audience are funny. But the capper [continue reading]
New pics: Regional Connector construction progress in Little Tokyo
Regional Connector construction work continues in Little Tokyo. The existing Gold Line tracks between Vignes Street and Temple Avenue have been removed and work is underway on the temporary track — [continue reading]
Business Interruption Fund spotlight: Kato’s Sewing Machine Company
Metro’s Business Interruption Fund was started to assist “mom and pop” businesses that may be directly impacted by construction of Metro’s Crenshaw/LAX line, the Regional Connector Transit Project along the [continue reading]
Businesses are open during Regional Connector work
The Little Tokyo/Arts District Station may be closed until March, but there are still plenty of ways to eat, shop and play in the neighborhood and surrounding area. Besides the Gold [continue reading]
Gold Line bus shuttle service changes to reflect customer feedback
As most of you know, we’re just over a week into the three-month closure of the Little Tokyo/Arts District Station. Work being done during the closure includes major track relocation and tunneling [continue reading]
How We Roll, Jan. 19: Expo Line (my precious), new eatery on the Blue Line, four ideas for L.A.
Art of Transit: Metro takes control of Expo Line to begin pre-revenue service (Santa Monica Next) Metro can now justly say “my precious” about the project’s mainline tracks between Culver City and Santa Monica. The Expo Line Construction Authority handed over the 6.6-mile tracks on Friday, a big step forward [continue reading]
Pics: Regional Connector construction
Work on the Regional Connector project continues to ramp up, as the above photos show. The first five pics are of the work to move the Gold Line tracks on 1st [continue reading]
Parking program in Little Tokyo during Regional Connector construction
With the Gold Line’s Little Tokyo/Arts District Station now closed until late March, Metro has a parking validation program underway Little Tokyo to help support businesses during the work. The above video breaks it down.
Pics: early work on the Regional Connector tunnel entrance in Little Tokyo
Attentive readers know that the Gold Line’s Little Tokyo/Arts District Station closed on Friday evening. The closure will continue until late March so that the tracks in the middle of 1st Street can be temporarily moved to the north side of the street in order to construct the entrance to a [continue reading]