The final environmental impact report for rush hour bus lanes on parts of Wilshire Boulevard was initially approved by the Metro Board of Directors on Thursday, with a roughly one-mile stretch in the Condo Canyon area of Westwood removed from the project. Board Member Mark Ridley-Thomas abstained from the vote. [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]
With the release this week of the Wilshire bus lane project’s final environmental impact report, I thought it would be timely to look more closely at the job and population numbers along the corridor. After all, it’s fair to wonder about who may be served by this project, along with [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]
Metro’s planning staff have issued their recommendations for the Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit Project, which proposes to install rush hour bus lanes in the curb lane of 8.7 miles of Wilshire Boulevard, mostly in the city of Los Angeles. Here’s the staff report. This is a project being built by [continue reading]
Monday — that, is today July 26 — is the final day for members of the public to comment on the draft environmental impact study/report for the Wilshire bus lane project. This is the best way to have your voice heard in the planning process for the project, which proposes [continue reading]
Quick reminder: there’s one week left for the public to submit comments on the draft environmental impact report for the Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit project. The project proposes to install about 9.5 miles of rush hour bus lanes on Wilshire Boulevard within the city of Los Angeles, which Metro officials [continue reading]
As we posted recently, the Wilshire Bus Rapid Transit project recently released its draft environmental impact report/study (DEIR). That’s a key document that has to be completed before work on the peak-hour bus lanes on Wilshire can begin construction. Here’s a link to the presentation used at public meetings about [continue reading]
The Metro Board of Directors huddle up for their monthly meeting on Thursday. The big ticket item on the agenda is the Board’s scheduled vote on adopting a long-range plan to guide the agency for the next three decades. The draft plan was released in early 2008 but approval from [continue reading]
