A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they’ll never sit in.
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Union Station (Los Angeles) expansion update - to allow through-running
https://ktla.com/news/travel/first-step-of-long-awaited-union-station-revamp-now-underway/
A multibillion-dollar plan to renovate and modernize Los Angeles Union Station took a crucial first step last week.
On Dec. 21, construction crews began the process of demolishing an existing building to make way for the expansion of Southern California’s historic transit hub, which will undergo massive and ambitious changes in the coming years.
During a one-day closure in downtown L.A., crews installed traffic control barriers and began the initial prep work for the demolition of a former self-storage facility located on the 800 block of East Commercial Street.
Demolition of the building will begin in January and will take about six months to complete, according to an LA Metro memo.
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Groundbreaking on this infill LRT station in Sacramento has occurred.
With site preparation work already underway, major construction will begin this summer, and the station is expected to open by the end of 2026.
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Caltrain’s electrification has been both a boon for ridership and the environment.
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Santa Ana, California
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It is really good, but it still feels a bit expensive. It is a mid-design for $900 million.
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HR4000 test train arriving at Wilshire/La Brea station platform.
An A650 train at Wilshire/La Brea station. Photo: Ken Karagozian
D Line tunnel near Wilshire/La Brea. Photo: Ken Karagozian
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Hello there, I’m going to Los Angeles next week to check out the transit system. How the public transportation looking in LA
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LA’s transit is improving at a rapid pace, with lots of extensions and new rolling stock for the Metro there. I’d say it’s better than how it was a decade ago.
Their site has a list of what’s going on (there’s a lot).
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Amazing that they have gone such a distance.
That one light rail line from Long Beach to Pomona is 57.6 miles long, operated as a one-seat ride taking 2 hours 11 minutes from end to end.
Just for comparison purposes, the distance of the railroad from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to Trenton station is 58.1 miles.
And the light rail will be extended past Pomona to Claremont. (It was supposed to be Montclair, but San Bernardino County cut funding).
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Construction of the tunnel boring machine entrance is underway at the BART Silicon Valley Phase II West Portal site in Santa Clara.
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