As anyone knows who drives the region’s freeways, one chronic source of backups is when heavy traffic must cope with an entrance ramp followed closely by an exit ramp. In other words, traffic trying to move left from the entrance lane mixes with traffic trying to move right to exit. [continue reading]
The Board of Directors have their final meeting of the year on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at Metro headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. Here’s the agenda. A few items of interest that the Board will tackle: •(Item 15) The Board is scheduled to vote to approve the final environmental impact [continue reading]
photo by savemebejus, via Flickr Here’s a nice pic taken near the end of the Great Los Angeles Walk on Saturday. More than 100 people walked 15.8 miles from Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica, via Wilshire Boulevard, where this photo was captured. Here’s more about the [continue reading]
Here’s the link to find the study. Metro’s staff also issued their recommendations for the Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit project last week. Here’s our post from Friday with details on the proposed project, which would add rush hour bus lanes in the curb lane to 8.7 miles of Wilshire Boulevard, [continue reading]
Our first three polls on the Westside Subway Extension looked at potential station locations. We took a break last week to discuss the issue of whether parking was needed at stations. About 87% of readers said they would be regular riders even without free or cheap parking at stations For [continue reading]
Did you know that Wilshire Boulevard is the only street in Los Angeles to have surface-level rail banned from operating on it (although not under it) between MacArthur Park and Beverly Hills? Early 20th Century elites who built their mansions near the boulevard may have been LA’s first “NIMFYs” (Not in My [continue reading]
