The Draft Environmental Impact Report/ Environmental Assessment (EIR/EA), Project Report, Concept of Operations, and Traffic and Revenue Study for the I-105 ExpressLanes Project will be available for public review and comment on the project website beginning Friday, May 22, 2020, through Monday, July 6, 2020. The supporting Draft EIR/EA and Project [continue reading]
Happy New Year’s, folks. Some desk clearing… •If you missed it and have some time to kill, I managed (with hours to spare) to post our 2010s-in-review here. •For those of you who rode Metro to the Tournament of Roses, how did it go? Looked to me like all the [continue reading]
•Things to read whilst transiting: “How the Internet turned on LeBron James” in the NYT Magazine. •Things to listen to whilst transiting: Why the price of a bottle of Coke [continue reading]
Dept. of Transit Oriented Futbol: LAFC has two matches this week — a Tuesday night friendly versus BVB and Saturday night against D.C. United. The new Banc of California Stadium [continue reading]
Things to listen to whilst transiting: Fun episode of Pop Culture Happy Hour on four movies so bad that they’re good. I won’t give away the list, other than to [continue reading]
Metro sent the following letter to the Daily News about their recent editorial on the Metro ExpressLanes: A recent editorial citing problems on the Metro ExpressLanes paints a distorted picture [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Today’s profile of a Metro rider by Zocalo Public Square: I’m thinking about the tons of work I’m behind on, Victoria Avenue to Market Street Transportation emerges as crucial to [continue reading]
Have a transportation-related article you think should be included in headlines? Drop me an email! And don’t forget, Metro is on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Garcetti motion encourages affordable housing at Metro stations (Streetsblog L.A.) [continue reading]
The above motion is scheduled to be considered by the Metro Board of Directors this month — the motion seeks to launch environmental studies of adding ExpressLanes to the 105 freeway, with an initial segment between the 405 and 605 freeways. To be perfectly clear: the motion concerns more studies [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors voted unanimously Thursday to continue the ExpressLanes on the 10 and 110 freeways beyond January of 2015. The Board also voted to charge a $1 monthly maintenance fee on all ExpressLanes accounts to help cover costs of operating the lanes but chose to exempt those with [continue reading]
