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Construction Update Meeting Expo Phase 2

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Join us for an update on Expo Phase 2!
The Exposition Construction Authority invites you to a construction update community meeting for Phase 2 of the Expo Line project. Stakeholders will receive information on upcoming construction activities and timelines.
The format will include a short presentation followed by an Open House session to facilitate dialogue and community input.

Santa Monica Construction Update
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
6:30 p.m.
Crossroads School
Community Room
1715 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Entrance off 18th St. Parking available on campus and surrounding streets.

Los Angeles Construction Update
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
6:30 p.m.
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services
Gymnasium
3200 Motor Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Parking available on campus

Planned Agenda for Community Meetings
6:30 – 7:00 p.m.: Formal Presentation
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.: Open House Session

ADA Language Accommodation: If you require an interpreter, including sign language services, or other accommodations at these community meetings, please contact Expo at least five business days prior to the meeting date at 213-243-5534.

 

Santa Monica BBB Integration with Expo: Community Workshops

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Expo Integration Community Workshops

Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus (BBB) recently kicked off the Expo Integration Study, an evaluation of potential connections to Metro Rail Expo Line Phase 2 stations scheduled to open in 2016. As part of the study, BBB is hosting a series of community workshops.
Integrating bikes on buses should be an importation part of this equation as it increases our mobility and helps by extending our range at either end of a trip with multi modal connections / options with bikes, busses & Expo light rail.
The workshops will address bus connections to Expo Line stations as well as the design of the Big Blue Bus network generally. Service to Santa Monica, the Westside, UCLA, SMC and other destinations will be discussed.
BBB would like to invite you to the community workshops on:
Tuesday, February 11; 6-8pm
Virginia Avenue Park, Thelma Terry Center
2200 Virginia Ave.
Santa Monica
Ride BBB Route 7 or Rapid 7.
Parking available onsite and surrounding streets.
Wednesday, February 12; 6-8pm
Civic Auditorium, East Wing
1855 Main St.
Santa Monica
Ride BBB Routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, Rapid 3, Rapid 7 or Rapid 10.
Parking available at Civic Center Lot.
Thursday, February 13; 6-8pm
Vista Del Mar Family Services, Gymnasium
3200 Motor Ave.
Los Angeles
Parking available onsite.
The same information will be presented at each meeting.
Download a copy of community workshops flier here.
These venues are ADA-accessible. Disability and translation accommodation requests should be made at least three days prior to the meetings by calling 424.257.0922.
Ride Blue. Go Green.

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Full Closures of 11th Street at Colorado for EXPO Rail Crossing Installation

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ATTENTION RESIDENTS. BUSINESS OWNERS and CYCLIST
FULL STREET CLOSURE 11th Street at Colorado Ave for Expo

11th Street is a major North South bike route. Please take note.
In order to install rail across 11th Street for the Expo Line project, the design-build contractor will need to implement a FULL STREET CLOSURE 11th Street at Colorado Avenue.
7-day continuous closure 24-hour work shifts
5:00 a.m. Monday, December 9, 2013 to 11:00 p.m. Sunday, December 15, 2013.
The map shows detours for motor vehicles – for people riding bikes using Broadway, 14th & Michigan will be a better route than Santa Monica Blvd., Olympic or Lincoln as shown below on Metro Map.

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Santa Monica Walking Train: Santa Monica Walks! October 26th, 2013

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Santa Monica Walking Train with Santa Monica Walks! & Santa Monica Next

Saturday, October 26
Meet: 3:30 p.m in front of the new library in Virginia Avenue Park, 2200 Virginia Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Walk: Three miles, checking out Expo Line construction, Pico Neighborhood and the brand-new Tongva Park with Grace Philips & Gary Kavanagh (you can take the Big Blue Bus #7 back to the start, or vice versa)
Beers: 6:30 p.m. at Chez Jay, 1657 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401
See who’s coming and invite friends on Facebook

Los Angeles Walks promoted the month of “Walktober” with a series of events. Los Angeles Walks joins Santa Monica Walks and Santa Monica Next who are co-hosting an event here in our own fair city.
Beginning at Virginia Park the group will take a walking tour along construction of phase II Expo Line light rail and along Michigan Ave. in the Pico neighborhood where the “Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway Project (MANGo) is proposed. Enjoy hearing about MANGo and a bit of history on the neighborhood which had rail service back in the day, and how the building of the 10 freeway divided not only one of our most diverse neighborhoods but is still a source of disruptive devision in our city today despite it’s benefits.

The walk will conclude at the BEAUTIFUL new Tongva Park overlooking Ocean Ave., with the arrival planned around sunset when the park truly shines. Stick around for drinks after at Chez Jay.

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BIG BLUE BUS & Expo Line Phase 2 Service Planning: SURVEY

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Big Blue Bus prepares to welcome Expo Line, Phase 2. They would like to get your feedback regarding how we should adapt bus services to the rail line. Please take a few minutes to share your opinions with them. We estimate that this survey should take approximately five minutes.

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(INTRODUCTION BBB)
The service area of Big Blue Bus (BBB) is changing in ways that promise to have significant impact on public transportation. Further expansion of the Exposition Light Rail Line in 2016 will increase the number of stations served from four to eleven, and bring rail from the fringes of the BBB service area into its center. Of these seven new rail stations, three are within the City of Santa Monica city limits, including the western terminus for the line. Projected weekday ridership for the Exposition Line is 64,000 boardings per weekday as of 2030. The primary change is the evolution of rail in BBB’s service area.

This is a significant change of conditions for a system that has served rail only at the periphery of our service area until now. Additionally, changes in demographics, zoning, and land use are forming pockets of increasing density in designated commercial and mixed use areas in order to conserve Santa Monica’s existing diverse residential areas. More resources are being dedicated to walking, biking, ridesharing, and transit to optimize the efficiency of the transportation system, and this change is remaking the fabric of the service area. These changes are introducing new transit propensities and altering the transit landscape.