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Metro Studying Arts District Red/Purple Line Subway Extension
Metro's outgoing CEO Art Leahy spoke enthusiastically at last week's Metro board Planning and Programming Committee about potentially extending the Red and Purple Line subways into the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. The new station or stations would take advantage of existing tracks in Metro's Heavy Rail Maintenance Yard, which extends southeast of Union Station, sandwiched between the Arts District and the Los Angeles River, mostly between First and Fourth streets, but extending all the way from the 101 Freeway to below Sixth Street.
March 26, 2015
Expo Is Coming, Santa Monica! But When Will It Get Here?
Expo Phase II completes the long-anticipated rail connection between Downtown Los Angeles and Downtown Santa Monica. Construction on Phase II began in 2011. Currently, the Expo line ends in Culver City. When the new 6.6-mile extension opens next year, it will be possible to take the train from the beach to Downtown Los Angeles for the first time in half-a-century.
March 25, 2015
Metro Installing Polycarbonate Shields to Protect Bus Operators
Numerous speakers at Metro's press conference this morning went to great length to assure the public that "the Metro system is safe." Nonetheless, the speakers focused on the number of crimes, foremost including assaults on bus operators, that take place on transit in Los Angeles. Metro reports that operators were assaulted by passengers 138 times in 2014.
March 20, 2015
Boyle Heights Youth Research Community Challenges, Find Proposed TOD Solutions Don’t Go Far Enough to Help Neediest
"So..." I begin, looking around the table at CALO YouthBuild students Abigail Navarro, Irvin Plata, Stephanie Olwen, and Eric Aguayo.
March 19, 2015
Eyes on the Street: Leimert Park Prepares People St Plaza for Grand Opening
The date for the grand opening of Leimert Park's People St Plaza is not quite set in stone, yet, but it's coming very soon. And I couldn't be more excited. The stakeholders in Leimert Park have begun to install some of the unique features they developed as a way to tie the plaza to the culture of the community, and they look pretty fantastic.
March 17, 2015
Eyes on the Street: North Hollywood Station Tunnel Construction
Last December, Streetsblog L.A. reported that construction had gotten underway for Metro's new tunnel below Lankershim Boulevard. The $22 million North Hollywood Station Underpass will connect the Red Line subway with the Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit. Full details and diagrams at the earlier article.
March 16, 2015
Metrolink Hires Art Leahy As CEO, To Start April 2015
The Metrolink board of directors voted unanimously this morning to hire Art Leahy as CEO.
March 13, 2015
Metro Board Unanimously Votes To Hire New CEO Phil Washington
This morning, the Metro board of directors voted unanimously to hire Phillip A. Washington as the agency's new CEO. For the past six years, Phil Washington was General Manager and CEO of the Denver's Regional Transportation District (RTD.)
March 12, 2015
Press Reports: Denver’s Phil Washington to Be Named New Metro CEO
L.A. Observed is reporting that Phillip A. Washington will be the new CEO of Metro. Phil Washington is currently the head of Denver's Regional Transportation District.
March 11, 2015
Media Bashes 710 Alternatives…the Transit Ones Anyway
Last week, Caltrans and Metro released the long-awaited draft environmental impact report for options to improve transportation near where the I-710 ends, 4.5 miles south of the I-210. As usual, the discussion around the document depends on whether or not one thinks it's a good idea to dig a five-mile tunnel 150 feet underground to connect one freeway to another freeway.
March 10, 2015