Recent Streetsblog LA posts about light rail

A Cab-Eye View of the Gold Line Eastside Extension

By Damien Newton | Nov 9, 2009 | 11 Comments

Our friend and light rail enthusiast Darrell Clarke brings us video of a ride on the Gold Line Eastside Extension from the front of the cab. Clarke took the video during the "preview" Metro held for press last Friday. Thanks to Clarke’s placement near a speaker, this video is a perfect substitute for actually having […]

Update on “Eastside Safety Ride” Next Friday

By Damien Newton | Nov 6, 2009 | No Comments

Ray LaHood likes the Eastside Extension…but will we? Image: The Fastlane One week from today the Eastside Bike Club, Streetsblog and the Bus Bench will meet at the Union Station Entrance to bike the six-mile Gold Line Extension to document what we see concerning crossings and safety. I’ve been getting a lot of questions about […]

With AnsaldoBreda’s Exclusive Contract Expired, What Is Next?

By Damien Newton | Nov 3, 2009 | 7 Comments

A diagram of the rail car plant repeatedly promised by Ansaldo Breda. To see the full image go here. Because the news broke on a weekend, the press reports on the dissolution of the talks between Metro and AnsaldoBreda on extending the exclusive contract to build rail cars for the agency were less-than-complete. Before the […]

Villaraigosa Announces Coalition to Speed Up Measure R Transit Construction

By Damien Newton | Oct 30, 2009 | 20 Comments

Ride it all the way to Santa Monica in 2020? Image:Ted Soqui/LA Weekly. At a meeting of business leaders earlier today, Mayor Villaraigosa officially announced his plan, previewed earlier today in the Times, to aggressively pursue private and federal funds to complete all rail projects included in Measure R within ten years. Villaraigosa has often […]

Announcing: The Gold Line Eastside Safety Ride

By Damien Newton | Oct 30, 2009 | 2 Comments

Image: Metro.net Two weeks from today, November 13, a group of activists will pedal out from Union Station for points east to see for ourselves whether the soon-to-be-opened Gold Line East Side Extension passes our safety check. The extension will open two days later on the fifteenth. The ride is currently supported by L.A. Streetsblog, […]

What Was the Point of Yesterday’s Half Hour Filibuster from Gloria Molina?

By Damien Newton | Oct 23, 2009 | 71 Comments

Better days: Molina, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard, Villaraigosa, Former Metro CEO Roger Snoble, and Board Member Pam O’Connor at the Eastside Extension Groundbreaking. Photo: Metro Library (Editor’s note: Originally, this was going to be a post written by Dana Gabbard about Metro placing their public Gold Line Eastside Extension documents online. As I was writing the […]

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