The Los Angeles Metro
Transit Authority is exploring ways to provide commuters with an alternative to
the 405 freeway by extending the South Bay Metro Green Line. One option is into
North Redondo Beach, to many residents’ dismay, the Beach Reporter reports.
Cindy Hammett plans to retire this summer and spend more time at
home taking care of her two young grandchildren. She hopes she doesn’t have to
spend that time listening to train horns sounding near her house. Hammett doesn’t
like the horns blowing day and night, NewsOK reports.
There will be no train
service between the East Falls Church, Va., and West Falls Church-VT/UVA
Metrorail stations during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, (May 29, 30 and
31), and the first two weekends in June (June 5-6 and 12-13) to allow the
Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project to undertake the first in a series of major
construction activities that eventually will connect the new rail line to the
existing Metrorail system.
On Sunday, May 30, crews
will replace crossties and resurface the tracks between the Bayshore and San
Mateo stations. From Tuesday, June 1, to Thursday, June 3, crews will resurface
the tracks between the Menlo Park and Mountain View stations
John Haussmann, P.E., has
joined HDR as a vice president and principal project manager based in the
company’s Walnut Creek, Calif. office. He will focus on major transit projects
in California and throughout the western United States. Prior to
joining HDR, Haussmann was the regional transit manager for PBS&J’s west
and central regions. From 1997 to 2008 he served first as chief operating
officer and then CEO/president of T.Y. Lin International.
Graham Construction
Services, Inc., is working on several transit projects that will transform
Minnesota’s commuter landscape. These include Graham’s activities on the
Central Corridor Light Rail Transit (CCLRT) Advanced Traffic Improvements
project and on the 4th Street Advanced Utility Construction project. In
addition, the company has completed the Hiawatha Light Rail Transit line
extension to Target Field.
As part of an ongoing
agency-wide financial review, members of the DART Board of Directors will
consider modifications in levels of transit service beginning with fiscal year
2012. Potential changes will also be accompanied with a reduction in staffing
throughout the organization.
Noise from the operation of
Norfolk Southern’s railroad hub in McCalla, Ala., would have no impact on an
adjacent elementary school or many of the surrounding homes and only a minimal
impact on other homes, an expert said May 25, according to The Birmingham News.
On Tuesday, June 1, there
will be a planned service disruption that will affect morning and evening
service for both the Manassas and Fredericksburg Lines.
On May 26, the Nature Center at
Shaker Lakes, in
partnership with the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, will
officially designate the Green Line Rapid transit stop at South Park and Shaker
boulevards as the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes stop.
Metrolink maintenance
crews will be performing work along Metrolink’s Ventura Line railroad tracks in
Southern California over Memorial Day weekend. The track maintenance activities
will include the removal and replacement of crossties, rail and concrete panels
at the railroad crossing at Lindley Avenue between Parthenia and Napa Streets.
Light-rail
construction crews, who are working toward a mid-July completion deadline in downtown
Norfolk, Va., must rebuild an intersection after flooding caused the underpinnings
to settle, The Virginian-Pilot reports. The
at-grade crossing at Brambleton Avenue and 2nd Street in the Fort Norfolk area
will be torn out for two weeks starting June 1, Hampton Roads Transit spokesman
Tom Holden said. The work will not affect traffic on Brambleton but will detour
2nd Street traffic.
A municipally owned lane
leading to Kalamalka Lake in Oyama, B.C., is facing a temporary closure this
summer. A council decision on the matter will be made on June 15 after public
input has been collected, the Lake
Country Calendar reported. Individuals seeking beach access have been mistaking
a private driveway for the public lane and unknowingly trespassing on private
property.
(Statement by American Public Transportation
Association President William Millar) "On behalf of the American Public
Transportation Association’s more than 1,500 member organizations, we commend
Senators Dodd, Durbin, Schumer, Menendez, Lautenberg and Brown for introducing
the ‘Public Transportation Preservation Act of 2010,’ which authorizes $2 billion
in funds for emergency transit operating assistance. APTA strongly
supports this legislation and stands ready to help secure its immediate
passage.
The Central Corridor LRT
Project in the Twin Cities received permission to enter final design, the last
step before award of a federal Full Funding Grant Agreement for the biggest public
works project in Minnesota history.
JLG Industries, Inc., an
Oshkosh Corporation company, said Craig Paylor is retiring as president of JLG
and executive vice-president Oshkosh Corporation. The company also said Wilson
Jones, Oshkosh Corporation executive vice president and president of Oshkosh’s
Fire and Emergency segment has been named to succeed Craig Paylor as president
of JLG and executive vice-president of the Access Equipment segment of Oshkosh
Corporation. Craig Paylor will step down on July 1, 2010
Iowa Mold Tooling Co. Inc.,
an Oshkosh Corporation company, said West Coast Machinery, based in Abbotsford,
B.C., will serve IMT customers throughout British Columbia.
Working ahead of schedule, on
May 25 CSX Transportation plans to re-open its Memphis-Nashville line that was
heavily damaged by severe flooding earlier this month, company officials said.
Los Angeles Metro CEO Art
Leahy said the agency appointed Chief Operations Officer Colonus "Lonnie"
Mitchell to the position he has held on an interim basis since December 2009
and hired architect and urban planner Martha Welborne to the Authority’s top
planning job..
Businesses and residents
in Norfolk’s Freemason Historic District got some good news last week – major
light rail construction that caused confusion and detours is complete, local
media report.