Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Regional Connector

Metro Lowers ‘Angeli’ the Regional Connector Tunnel Boring Machine

By Joe Linton | Oct 19, 2016 | 4 Comments

This morning, Metro celebrated the ceremonial naming and lowering of the Regional Connector subway tunnel boring machine. Metro’s newest TBM – another is currently tunneling portions of Metro’s Crenshaw/LAX light rail line – is named “Angeli.” The winning name was proposed by Windsor McInerny, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School. McInerny was joined by […]

#DamienTalks the Regional Connector with Metro’s Community and Construction Relations Team

By Damien Newton | Oct 11, 2016 | 1 Comment

Today, #DamienTalks with Olga Arroyo and Jean Marie Hance with Community and Construction Relations for the Regional Connector Project in Downtown Los Angeles. With the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) going in the ground next week, it seemed the perfect time to connect with the Regional Connector. The conversation is wide ranging and goes on for over twenty minutes, […]

Eyes on the Street: Little Tokyo Gold Line Test Train on New Tracks

By Joe Linton | Mar 9, 2016 | No Comments

Metro is getting close to re-opening the temporarily detoured Gold Line through Little Tokyo. To facilitate Regional Connector subway construction, Metro removed and relocated a stretch of Gold Line tracks between the Little Tokyo and Pico Aliso Stations. This afternoon, Streetsblog S.F. editor Roger Rudick spotted rail cars traversing the rebuilt tracks. According to Rudick, the train […]

Eyes on the Street: Little Tokyo Track Relocation Construction Underway

By Joe Linton | Jan 11, 2016 | 3 Comments

Last Friday, Metro began its slightly-delayed closure of the Little Tokyo Gold Line Station. The station will be closed for about three months while Gold Line tracks are relocated to make way for Regional Connector subway construction. If this construction goes reasonably well, the on time within-budget Regional Connector will open in 2021. Metro’s contractors (Skanska and […]

Little Tokyo Businesses Delay Metro Subway Construction Closures to 2016

By Joe Linton | Dec 3, 2015 | 30 Comments

Details are still emerging, but this morning, Metro Board of Directors chair Mark Ridley-Thomas announced that Little Tokyo businesses served Metro with a Temporary Restraining Order against Regional Connector subway construction. The legal threat caused the Metro board to decide to delay track relocation construction that had been announced to begin tomorrow. If the terms […]

Metro Committee Approves $132M Regional Connector Construction Increase

By Joe Linton | Nov 19, 2015 | No Comments

This morning, the Metro board’s Construction Committee approved an additional $131.8M for construction of the downtown Los Angeles Regional Connector subway. This increase ups the budget from $1.42 billion to 1.55 billion – a 9 percent increase. The line had been expected to open in 2020, but has already experienced delays pushing it back ten months, likely […]

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