California | Local |
By Steve Hymon |
12:00AM, November 6
Don’t expect new roads or rails to start spreading across Los Angeles County now that Measure R has passed; transportation officials say the first of a long list of projects are still several years from opening.
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About seven to 10 times each month, Art Brown hops on a Metrolink train.
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In a region where traffic is an all-consuming complaint, a half-cent sales tax increase to improve traffic flow might seem like a sure thing.
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Proponents of the transportation package known as Measure R say its impact would be transformative in traffic-plagued Los Angeles County.
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Attendees at Thursday’s board meeting of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority got a treat: a public spat between Los Angeles County Supervisors Gloria Molina and Zev Yaroslavsky that ended when Yaroslavsky walked out.
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When will trains ever roll into the Westside?
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The next potential victims of the nation’s credit crunch: nearly 1.5 million people who ride buses and trains each weekday in Los Angeles County.
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President Bush signed the Rail Safety Improvement Act on Thursday, requiring that passenger and certain freight trains have high-tech emergency braking systems by 2015.
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One of the more intriguing mass transit projects that has been talked about for years – they usually require decades of talk before actually getting built – is the downtown connector, also known as the regional connector.
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Top officials with the firm that contracts to run Metrolink trains made their first public comments Sunday night about last month’s deadly head-on collision of a passenger train with a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth.
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