We have already posted about last week’s oral report to the Metro Board by several experts on seismic and tunneling issues in the Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood areas. The experts recommended that the Century City station be located along Constellation Avenue to avoid two active earthquake fault zones [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. Fault findings break new ground (ZevWeb) USC Earth Sciences Professor James Dolan talks about the seismic work done in the Century City [continue reading]
Streamlining Chicago (1940) from WBEZ on Vimeo. Hat tip to Source reader Todd Markle for sending over this story from the WBEZ website in Chicago about the city getting its first subway. The above is a film made in 1940 to promote Chicago’s subway and freeway (ahem, expressway) plan. There’s [continue reading]
The pair of reports on tunneling safety and seismic issues involving the Westside Subway Extension between Beverly Hills and Westwood have been posted online. The reports were the basis for yesterday’s oral report to the Board of Directors by a variety of engineers, geologists and seismologists. The gist of it: [continue reading]
The following was compiled by Metro. I’m posting it here as a companion to the previous post about seismic and tunneling issues along the Westside Subway Extension: Some of the world’s leading seismologists as well as tunneling engineers and other experts were involved in preparing or independently reviewing two geotechnical [continue reading]
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]
Today’s meeting of the Metro Board of Directors Planning Committee began a few minutes ago. The first item is a big one: a discussion by experts on seismic and tunneling issues in the Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood involving the Westside Subway Extension. A lot of material is going [continue reading]
There will be an oral report given by Metro staff and consultants at the Metro Board of Directors’ Planning Committee on Wednesday on engineering, geotechnical and safety issues involving the building of the Westside Subway Extension in Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood. The meeting begins at 1 p.m. at [continue reading]
The news this week that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) are teaming up to create a museum devoted to motion pictures is long, long overdue. Finally the birthplace of the film industry will have a proper and [continue reading]
The Beverly Hills Unified School District on Wednesday issued a news release headlined “Beverly Hills Unified School District demands Metro come clean with facts on Westside Subway Extension.” In particular, the School District alleges that Metro subway planners decided last week to drop a potential station at Santa Monica Boulevard [continue reading]
