Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Trains

Summary of the Major Decisions from Today’s Metro Board Meeting

By Damien Newton and Carter Rubin | Oct 28, 2010 | 6 Comments

Here’s a quick rundown of the major votes by today’s Metro Board. Each of these five motions were discussed at Streetsblog over the last couple of weeks, and links to those stories can be found at the end of each summary. Streetsblog will have links to all news reports on today’s meeting tomorrow. Westside Subway […]

Metro Westside Subway Talks Take a Different Turn in Santa Monica

By Carter Rubin | Sep 30, 2010 | 29 Comments

Note: If you choose to share your thoughts at the bottom of this article, I would also urge you to “make it count” and put it on the official public record by sending your comments directly to Metro by October 18th 2010. Instructions on how to comment can be found at the end of the […]

Scared of the Subway: Beverly Hills Slams Proposal to Put Subway Under the City (Updated: 1:00 P.M.)

By Damien Newton | Sep 28, 2010 | 36 Comments

There is one thing that is clear about the position of the residents of Beverly Hills when it comes to the future Westside Subway. No matter how many guarantees they receive about the negligible impacts of tunneling ninety to one hundred fifty feet below the ground, they don’t want it to run underneath their residential […]

Subway Critics Attacks Based on Faulty Logic

By Dana Gabbard | Sep 24, 2010 | 16 Comments

Earlier this month the L.A. Times headlined its coverage of the release by Metro of the draft environmental studies for the Purple Line westward extension “Proposed Westside subway will do little to relieve traffic congestion, report shows” as if this was a searing revelation. Just proof again of the sad decline of the Times these past few […]

Friday News Dump: City Schedules Bike Plan Meetings, Westside Subway Won’t Reduce Car Congestion

By Damien Newton | Sep 7, 2010 | 10 Comments

Traditionally, the Friday before a holiday weekend is considered the time to release news that you don’t want to get traction in the public. Sure, the story could get picked up, but there’s less people watching the news that night or reading the newspaper the next morning than any other time. Both the City and […]

Passenger Rail Symposium, Day 2: Stations and Sprinters

By Drew Reed | May 28, 2010 | 9 Comments

Aerial view of San Francisco showing route to new Transbay Terminal. Image coutesy TJPA On Monday, the Passenger Rail Symposium kicked off with an impressive display of train technology, most of it being used in Europe. But the problem of how to effectively implement train stations, European or otherwise, remains. Fortunately, Tuesday’s speakers had plenty […]

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