Digging done for Crenshaw/LAX rail tunnels
And some still images if you need ’em for social media, etc.: Nice milestone for the Crenshaw/LAX Line on Thursday morning: Harriet the tunnel boring machine arrived at the Leimert [continue reading]
A cut above: Tunneling cutterhead arrives in L.A.
Like the first flowers of spring – although substantially larger – the tunnel boring machine cutterhead arrival at the Metro yard this week is a harbinger of the future. In [continue reading]
How do they do that? Dig a subway tunnel
How do they do that? is a series for The Source that explores the technology that helps keep Metro running and passengers and other commuters moving. Some of it applies directly to the trains, buses and freeways and some of it runs in the background — invisible to nearly everyone [continue reading]
Transportation headlines, Thursday, Aug. 1
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription orRSS feed. Make it urban (Architect’s Newspaper) An editorial in Architect’s Newspaper argues that as Los [continue reading]
Experts recommend Constellation station for subway project for safety reasons
Nationally and internationally-recognized seismologists, geologists and engineers recommended Wednesday that a subway station in Century City should be built under the intersection of Constellation Boulevard and Avenue of the Stars to avoid two earthquake faults in the area. Speaking to the Metro Board of Directors Planning Committee, experts also said [continue reading]
Subway Facts & History responds to questions from readers
We’ve posted three pieces so far in our Subway Facts & History series providing information about topics generating discussion on the Westside Subway Extension. The project is nearing completion of its final environmental document, which should be released sometime this fall. Part 1 of the series looked at what can [continue reading]
Subway Facts & History, part 2
This is the second part in The Source’s new series called “Subway Facts & History” to address some of the issues generating discussion involving the Westside Subway Extension project. The facts below are based on information from Metro staff and consultants planning the project. The information, in various forms, has [continue reading]
The Westside Subway Extension: Subway Facts & History, part one
The Westside Subway Extension is a big, complicated project that has been discussed in Los Angeles in one form or another for the past 50 years. Planning for the current project got underway in 2007 and is now in the final environmental review stage. The Source is launching a new [continue reading]
Property acquisition fact sheet now online for Westside Subway Extension
Last week, we posted the link to the Westside Subway Extension’s Metro’s construction impacts fact sheet. This week we bring you info from the subway’s new property acquisition fact sheet, which you can find here as a website and here as a PDF. While this fact sheet is directly about [continue reading]
Metro Comments on Beverly Hills Unified School District Complaint
This week several online news sources have reported that the Beverly Hills Unified School District (BHUSD) has filed a “Writ of Mandate” petition in Los Angeles Superior Court that seeks to require Metro to release documents on the Westside Subway Extension Project, as well as station location alternatives in the Century City area. The reason for [continue reading]