Photo by Pedro Szekely, via Flickr creative commons One of the more exciting things going on is Metro’s purchase of Union Station in April 2011. With this purchase, Metro kicked off an effort to develop a Master Plan to make it a 21st century transit station. Metro is giving you [continue reading]
Aerial photos by Gary Leonard The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Advisory Services Panel visited Los Angeles in December, sponsored by Metro and the City of Los Angeles planning department, to [continue reading]
A public forum today at Union Station provided the public with their first look at conceptual visions for Union Station and the surrounding area by six architectural firms bidding to prepare a master plan for the facility. Metro Executive Planning Director Martha Welborne told the several hundred people in attendance [continue reading]
Having read a lot of the press and comment boards concerning the report by Beverly Hills’ consultants on tunneling safety for the Westside Subway Extension, I encourage those interested to actually read the report itself. Some of the discussion is technical in nature, but I think everyone should make their [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 blog. Seattle voters approve big tunnel plan (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) About 60 percent of voters in the Emerald City approved a plan to tear down the [continue reading]
