Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Westside Subway

Bev. Hills Experts Cast Doubt on Metro Report

By Damien Newton | Feb 6, 2012 | 2 Comments

(Note, the Beverly Hills Courier points out that they had the story first on Thursday evening despite my call that Patch broke the news. You can read their coverage, here. – DN) Last Friday, word broke on Patch that a review of the geological studies on the Westside Subway commissioned by the city government of […]

The Trenching, and the Spin, Go on in Beverly Hills

By Damien Newton | Jan 23, 2012 | 8 Comments

Local news outlets in Beverly Hills reported last week that with 80% of the trenching completed on the Beverly Hills Campus that thus far the trenching has found no active faults anywhere on the Beverly Hills campus. The remaining trenching will be completed on the northern part of campus along Heath Avenue. Before a final […]

Breaking News: Metro Can’t Complete Trenching Studies in One Weekend

By Damien Newton | Jan 9, 2012 | 3 Comments

(Update: Metro was actually on campus for seven different days doing studies in 2011: 2/19, 2/26, 2/17, 3/5, 3/6, 3/12, and 3/13. On some of the days, poor weather prevented them from getting good samples, but we should note they were there longer than one weekend.) Here we go again. The publicity wing of the […]

Bev. Hills Courier’s Big Scoop: Metro Does Mailings

By Damien Newton | Nov 18, 2011 | 6 Comments

Century City Mailer for Web The Beverly Hills newspaper of record, the esteemed Beverly Hills Courier, has been doing its best to rile the residents of the 90210 against the Westside Subway route that would take the Subway under Beverly Hills High School The paper all but declared the Mayor a traitor to the city […]

Rest In Peace: Santa Monica Blvd. Subway Station

By Damien Newton | Oct 19, 2011 | 15 Comments

(Steve Hymon reviews the geology and presentation from a scientific standpoint at The Source. I’m considering this an unofficial companion piece looking at how today’s presentation changes the politics. Angelenos Against Gridlock were also updating their website throughout the presentation. – DN) Earlier this afternoon, the Metro Board of Directors Planning Committee held a wake […]

Brown’s AEG Bill Could Help Westside Subway Avoid Lawsuit Delays

By Damien Newton | Sep 29, 2011 | 17 Comments

I know I promised that we weren’t going to cover the fight over the Westside Subway routing debate until there was actual news, but the Subway won a huge victory earlier this week, and almost nobody noticed. In paragraph 7 of the Daily News article on the signing of new CEQA legislation, Senator Alex Padilla (D-Van […]

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