October 6: This Date in Los Angeles Transportation History
2008: Metro’s construction contractor begins repaving portions of the popular Metro Orange Line to repair wear on some segments of asphalt and upgrade the transitway
2008: Metro’s construction contractor begins repaving portions of the popular Metro Orange Line to repair wear on some segments of asphalt and upgrade the transitway
2020: Construction begins on Destination Crenshaw, a 1.3 mile-long open-air, linear museum that features 100 public artworks by primarily Black artists. The $100 million project
2018: Traffic reconfiguration begins for Metro Regional Connector construction at 4th/Flower Streets. The project extends from the Metro Gold Line Little Tokyo/Arts District Station to
1999: Metro announces a record number of new Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses into service for one day. More information can be found in the
2016: Metro unveils Blue Line pedestrian and vehicle safety improvements. Twenty-seven intersections along the Metro Blue Line, Los Angeles County’s first and most heavily used,
1955: The first unit of the Foothill Freeway is completed in the Altadena-Flintridge area. The 1.8-mile long section runs from Hampton Road to Montana Street.
2005: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announces that the American Public Transportation Association Peer Review Tunneling Panel’s preliminary findings indicate that it is safe to
2004: Metro releases a draft Environmental Impact Report for its proposed new West Los Angeles Transportation Center (Division 6). The new location is a 4.7-acre
2011: The Foothill Extension Construction Authority reaches an agreement to purchase land in Monrovia needed for a rail and maintenance yard for the Metro Gold
2012: The Metro Orange Line Extension opens. The four-mile addition to the 14-mile east-west San Fernando Valley busway extends service north-south from Canoga Park to