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. BHUSD pays law firm $439,000 for three months work (pdf, page 10) (Beverly Hills Weekly) The [continue reading]
In its most recent edition, the Beverly Hills Courier published incorrect information about construction impacts of building the Westside/Purple Line Extension: The Metro tunnels are not an issue for Beverly High only. Just this past week, neighbors of the proposed La Cienega and Wilshire station – touted by Mayor Willie [continue reading]
“This day is here…” On January 29, 1993, former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley stood among a swarm of public officials and transit agency staffers on the cramped Pershing Square subway platform. Standing shoulders above everyone else, including then-California Gov. Pete Wilson, Bradley proudly inaugurated the opening of the first [continue reading]
The Metro Board approved on a 7 to 2 vote a contract modification worth about $30.5 million dollars for Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc., to provide preliminary engineering services and other work on the first and second phases of the Westside/Purple Line Extension, as well as final design services for modifications to [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. Century Plaza’s two-tower makeover is a go (Curbed LA) The historic hotel will be [continue reading]
I took this photo Sunday afternoon from the Backbone Trail above the Pacific Palisades. In the foreground is Westwood and Century City — the telephoto lens smashes them together — and beyond is downtown Los Angeles. The many tall buildings along Wilshire Boulevard form a crescent shape across the left [continue reading]
This is interesting, given that Metro is certainly targeted by CEQA lawsuits — the agency is currently defending itself in CEQA suits challenging the environmental studies for the Crenshaw/LAX Line, the Regional Connector and the Westside Subway Extension. In addition, the Expo Line Construction Authority is defending itself in a [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. Mayoral candidates split on Westside Subway route (Daily News) Here’s the first sentence of [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. Los Angeles Mayor candidates talk transportation (KPCC) There are few specifics from a candidate [continue reading]
TIFIA letter of interest Perhaps the most notable part of the last federal transportation bill was a significant expansion of a federal loan program called TIFIA. In essence, the program uses the federal government’s credit to provide favorable loans for transportation projects in the United States. If Measure J had [continue reading]
