Art of Transit: Developers are winning Miracle Mile’s density battles — and screwing over residents (LA Weekly) The article takes a skeptical view of the new residential/commercial structures, museum expansions and the [continue reading]
Art of Transit 1: Art of Transit 2: Deep under New York (Reuters) Nice photo gallery of the Eastside Access Project in Gotham. The new tunnels will finally allow [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. Pick your social media poison! Freeway toll lanes seem to speed things along, somewhat (L.A. Times) Here’s the top of the story, which provides a good summary of the preliminary [continue reading]
Metro EPW Testimony 072413 Metro CEO Art Leahy today testified in Washington D.C. in front of the U.S. Senate’s Environment & Public Works Committee; his testimony is above. The topic was an important one for the agency: the expanded TIFIA loan program approved by Congress in last year’s multi-year transportation [continue reading]
As many of you know, President Obama last week signed a two-year federal transportation spending bill. In recent decades, Congress has usually approved bills that cover more years but in these hyper-partisan times, and after nine extensions of the bill that expired in 2009, this definitely was a victory. In [continue reading]
The story has been developing throughout the day — it seems the Senate and House have struck a deal to pass the first multi-year bill since 2005. That bill had expired in 2009 and been given a number of short-term extensions while Congress bickered over the new bill. It’s never [continue reading]
More less-than-great news from Washington, although this is just a step in the long process of getting some type of annual bill approved Here’s the update from Metro’s government relations staff: Moments ago, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee adopted the Fiscal Year 2013 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development [continue reading]
The officials — including Metro CEO — held a news conference on Thursday. Unfortunately, as we posted earlier, it doesn’t appear that a divided Congress is set to pass a multi-year bill anytime soon. Below is the press release from the Southern California Assn. of Governments (link is here): Gas [continue reading]
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 or RSS feed. It’s been a busy past few days at Metro and we’ve skipped some good [continue reading]
Not sure this registers as a surprise — the transportation spending bill offered by Rep. John Mica (R-Florida) in the House was pounded with criticism from many corners. Here’s the news from Metro’s government relations staff: House GOP Reportedly Will Make Changes To Surface Transportation Bill – End Effort To [continue reading]
