In response to a report commissioned by the city of Beverly Hills, Metro officials on Tuesday said they stand by seismic and tunneling safety reports that Metro released in October as part of its planning of the Westside Subway Extension project. Metro’s response to the report by the environmental consulting [continue reading]
The Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece earlier this week criticizing the Westside Subway Extension for proposing to demolish buildings housing the A+D architecture museum and the Edward Cella Art+Architecture and Steve Turner Contemporary galleries. The land would be used as one of two construction staging areas for the [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. AEG unveils traffic plan for downtown football stadium (Daily News) [continue reading]
HIGH-SPEED RAIL PLAN: The revised plan that was released Monday proposes to build 300 miles of high-speed rail track between Merced and the San Fernando Valley by 2021. It’s nice to see the initial segment of the project expanded to Los Angeles County, but there’s an obvious question here: Even [continue reading]
Metro has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement/Final Environmental Impact Statement Report for the Westside Subway Extension. Please join us at Community Open House meetings to learn about the findings of the Final EIS/EIR. Metro will provide important information from the Final EIS/EIR, including recommended alignment and station locations, graphics [continue reading]
EXPO LINE OPENING: I knew there was a lot of anticipation for the new light rail line, but I was still surprised at the number of people visiting this blog after the April 28 opening to the La Cienega station was announced Friday. I’m talking twice as many people as [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. Martha Welborne on balancing planning responsibilities, goals and constraints at Metro (The Planning Report) [continue reading]
In my weekly column yesterday I wrote about the benefits and challenges of the proposed Westwood/VA station for the Westside Subway Extension. Above and below are a couple of preliminary station entrance renderings that I thought readers would like to see. In the above drawing, that’s Wilshire Boulevard cutting diagonally [continue reading]
WESTWOOD/VA STATION: For obvious reasons, a lot of attention has been paid to the Westside Subway Extension’s Century City station and the subway alignment in Beverly Hills. There’s no need to belabor those issues here. But one of the more overlooked stories involving the subway project involves the Westwood/VA Hospital [continue reading]
The Westside Subway Extension on Monday released its Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report. The study is filled with many goodies, including these three renderings of what future station entrances might look like. It is important to note that these are the entrances recommended by Metro staff in the FEIS/R; the Metro [continue reading]
