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]
It’s a simple idea: Connect the jobs-rich and traffic-choked Westside of Los Angeles County to downtown L.A., the heart of the region’s economy and public transit network. Yet, as of this moment, I can’t hop on the subway in Westwood and make it to downtown in about 25 minutes — [continue reading]
Feb 23-24 Koreatown: Wilshire/Vermont Bus Detours Affected Bus Lines: 020, 051/052/352, 204, 720, 754 Effective Dates: Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 — Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 Description From Metro’s operations staff: Due to continued police activity near Wilshire/Vermont, please expect detours and delays thru 8am Friday morning, or until roads reopen, [continue reading]
photo by Carter Rubin/Metro I think it takes a lot of guts to ride a bike in this town or drive a bus — you really have to be on top of your game all of the time. Carter took this photo on the Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Boulevard [continue reading]
Nice video recently posted by the Los Angeles County Bike Coalition on the proposed bike lane along 7th Street and serve as an alternative to riding on very busy Wilshire Boulevard. The lane would eventually stretch from Catalina Street in Koreatown to Soto Street in Boyle Heights and is scheduled [continue reading]
The big day is almost here: The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday for one of three options for the Wilshire Boulevard peak hour bus lane project. The three choices: 8.7 miles of lanes including the Condo Canyon stretch in Westwood, 7.7 miles of lanes excluding Condo [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors last month approved a 7.7-mile Wilshire peak hour bus lane project on portions of Wilshire within the city of Los Angeles. The City Council’s Transportation Committee discussed the issue for more than two hours this afternoon and split three ways: two Council members (Richard Alarcon [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors approved a 7.7-mile route for the Wilshire peak hour bus lane project. The approval came as part of voting to adopt the final environmental impact report for the project and followed the Metro staff recommendation for the project. The vote was 10 to 0 11 [continue reading]
The Westside Subway Extension project began a new round of community meetings this week aimed at updating the public on the final environmental study that is currently underway. Here’s a link to the presentation for community members and here’s a link to a list of the two other community meetings. [continue reading]
This is a new feature for The Source in which I express actual opinions while working for government. Members of the media: please take any of these ideas and run with them — we could use the coverage! 1. Like many readers, I was pleased to read in a recent [continue reading]
