Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) CEO Stephanie Wiggins is busy. Going on two years as Metro CEO, it’s a good kind of busy with a lot of accomplishments and improvements.
Testing of train control and communication systems will be conducted in phases over multiple months.
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***Metro Update***
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) today celebrated the end of tunnel excavation for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project. Harriet, the tunnel boring machine (TBM), completed digging the second of the twin tunnels for the light rail line on April 6.
Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project-Area Updates
As part of the construction of the aerial Aviation/Century Station for the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) contractor Walsh/Shea Corridor Constructors (WSCC) will implement nightly directional closures on Century Boulevard in August to remove the wood framing (falsework) for the bridge.
Beginning, Monday, Aug. 1, a rotation of weekly full one-directional closures of Century Boulevard between Aviation Boulevard and Bellanca Avenue will occur Monday through Friday between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. No closures are scheduled for Saturday or Sunday nights.
L.A. City Council President Herb Wesson joined leaders on a tour of the 950-ton machine named for African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Tunnel excavation to begin this spring
Construction Activities All Along the Alignment
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) announced today that it was awarded a $15 million United States Department of Transportation (DOT) Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Act (TIGER) VII grant for construction of the Rail to Rail Active Transportation Corridor Connector Project.
Digging machine will excavate twin tunnels for Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project
Metro is inviting students from kindergarten through 12th grade to participate in a naming and illustration contest for the new Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) that will dig twin tunnels to connect three underground stations of the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project.