Here are some new photos of the Regional Connector construction happening in Little Tokyo. Most of the construction activities this summer have been centered around preparing for the launch of the tunnel [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]
Eight dead in shooting rampage in Munich, police say (NYT) The hunt for the suspect or suspects in a shooting at a mall has shut down much of Germany’s third-largest city, [continue reading]
The summer festival season in Little Tokyo kicks off this weekend with a full schedule of cultural celebrations in the historic neighborhood. Celebrate Obon, one of the most important Japanese [continue reading]
Good morning from The Source satellite office in Mason, Ohio, where I’m on parental-unit duty this week… From the Department of Twitterers Angry About Traffic: You have become what you [continue reading]
Progress continues across downtown Los Angeles on the Regional Connector project. At the 2nd St/Hope Station, excavation of the project’s deepest station has begun. Excavation activities continue under Hope Street. That’s [continue reading]
In part two of our podcast trilogy looking at the Metro’s budget for the coming fiscal year, Steve and Drew look at some of the construction projects and programs that consume 40 percent of Metro’s $5.6-billion budget. Here’s last week’s podcast providing a budget overview. Need something to read? The [continue reading]
Congratulations to the cash prize winners of Metro’s Eat Shop Play quarterly drawing. It pays to support local businesses, in more ways than one! Quarterly drawings are part of Metro’s Eat Shop Play campaign to promote impacted business located along three rail construction projects: the Crenshaw/LAX Line, the Purple Line Extension and [continue reading]
All this week, under the cover of darkness and the convenience of trafficless streets, large segments of the Regional Connector’s tunnel boring machine (TBM) have been delivered to a holding [continue reading]
Time flies when you’re building a new light rail. Between January and March, the Regional Connector project interrupted Gold Line service at the Little Tokyo/Arts District Station to build a [continue reading]
