Santa Ana next in line for LRT?
Expanding light rail transit reach in the Los Angeles basin could next include a 20-mile LRT line from LA’s Union Station to downtown Santa Ana, in Orange County, Calif.
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LACMTA gets funding for Crenshaw LRT
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been granted $545.9 million under a Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to proceed with construction of the Crenshaw/LAX light rail transit poject.
Route choice at hand for LA streetcar
A final route choice, initially reduced from a smorgasbord of 65 route options to just seven until now, is expected to be selected March 22 for the Los Angeles Streetcar project, after review by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA).
LA streetcar advocacy group to host fundraiser
“Get on Board” is the theme for a cocktail reception and fundraiser planned for Sept. 30, 2010, by L.A. Streetcar, Inc., an advocacy group promotinga namesake project.
LA’s Expo Line LRT extension gets approved
Light rail transit proponents in metropolitan Los Angeles Thursday notched a victory when the Expo Construction Authority approved Phase II of the Expo Line; the second phase, a 7-mile, $1.5 billion addition, would extend the line from Culver City to Santa Monica, Calif. Phase I is currently under construction, linking Culver City with downtown Los Angeles. The Expo Line roughly parallels Interstate 10.
LA Expo Line faces significant delays
Los Angeles’s 8.6-mile, $862 million Expo light rail line connecting downtown and Culver City could face construction delays pushing the project’s completion date back by as little as six weeks, or up to a year. The line originally was to open next summer; an estimate provided to the Expo Line Construction Authority Board pegged the delay at 50 weeks.