It has been just a couple of months since SBLA checked in on Regional Connector construction, but editor Joe Linton was downtown and has his hands full researching some big stories, so below are more recent photos of the Regional Connector Grand/Bunker Hill Station pedestrian bridge to Grand Avenue.
Most of the construction for the project has been underground, including deep pits at each of the stations. The pit under Bunker Hill was the deepest of them all.
The future Grand Avenue station site back in 2017. The back of the Broad Museum is visible at the top of photo.The future Grand Avenue station site, 110 feet below the back of the Broad Museum
That Bunker Hill pit is no longer a pit. Construction at the surface there (on Hope Street at 2nd Street, essentially directly behind the Broad Museum) is now one of the best places where the public (and Streetsblog editors) can see project progress.
Here is what the future station will look like:
Metro rendering of Regional Connector Grand Avenue station, with bridge extended to the back of The Broad museum. Rendering via UrbanizeAdditional rendering of xxxx
View of construction of Regional Connector bridge to Grand Avenue (note Disney Hall on the right). View is similar to the rendering above - looking north from Hope Street near 3rd Street.View of Regional Connector bridge to Grand xxxx
View of Regional Connector Grand Avenue bridge construction - looking south from Hope, near First Streetxxx
View of Regional Connector Grand Avenue/Bunker Hill Station - looking south from Flower Street. The Broad is visible on the left.xxxx
View of Regional Connector bridge construction - looking west from the back of The Broad museum.xxx
New concepts for rapid bus service across the 626 have ironed out the questions of where an East-West route would run and where demonstrations could begin.
Metro and Caltrans eastbound 91 Freeway widening is especially alarming as it will increase tailpipe pollution in an already diesel-pollution-burdened community that is 69 percent Latino, and 28 percent Black