Project: State Route 2 Terminus
Recipient: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Agency (LACMTA), $9,992,392
Address: One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: The project will modify the southern terminus of State Route 2 (SR-2) from Branden Street to Oak Glen Place to develop a balanced transportation system that serves local and regional transportation needs, better manages traffic flows, and enhances accessibility and safety in the vicinity of the terminus.
Project: Los Angeles Trade Tech College Pedestrian Enhancement Project
Recipient: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Agency (LACMTA), $2,018,000
Address: One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This project’s goal is to provide a safe and accessible pedestrian linkage for students enrolled at LA Trade Tech College and transit riders of the adjacent hospital and high school. There are six important entry driveways on Flower Street, which are obscured by an access road, built to mitigate the impacts of the Metro Expo Line. Visibility at these driveways would be hindered without additional signage and lighting. Pedestrian enhancements such as new signage, new crosswalk, lighting and landscaping will promote walking as a viable source of transportation, and improve connectivity for pedestrians accessing the LA Trade Tech College on Flower Street and on 23rd Street.
Project: LACCD Regional Student Transit Pass Demonstration Program Recipient: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Agency (LACMTA), $277,000.
Address: One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This program would establish a demonstration project to encourage students to use transit by providing community college students below poverty level with the opportunity to purchase discounted transit passes. These passes can be used on a variety of transit routes. Information from this study will be used to determine future programs at other colleges and universities in Southern California.
Project: Metrolink Positive Train Control
Recipient: Southern California Regional Rail Authority – Metrolink, $953,000
Address: 700 S. Flower St., Suite 2600, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Project Description: Positive Train Control (PTC) is a predictive collision avoidance technology system designed to stop a train before an accident occurs. The goals of PTC are to help prevent train-to-train collisions, speeding and over-speed derailments, incursions into track work zones (to protect crews working on the railroad), and movement of a train through a switch left in the wrong position. PTC is designed to keep a train under its maximum speed limit and within the limits of its authorization to be on a specific track. This project would consist of Metrolink PTC system planning, research and design program elements.
Project: Avenue 26 to Gold Line Station Pedestrian Connection
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Council District 1, $2,000,000
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Room 410, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This project would improve the pedestrian connectivity between three communities, Lincoln Heights, Cypress Park and Glassell Park, by providing a safe, friendly corridor that encourages patronage to the Cypress / Lincoln Heights Gold Line Station on Ave 26 at Lacy Ave. The improvements will promote a more sustainable streetscape environment with elements that provide traffic calming; in particular, along Ave 26 and Humboldt, it will examine the need for a signalized intersection and/or bulb-outs for safer pedestrian crossing. The project will heighten pedestrian visibility at the intersection of Ave 26 and Pasadena Ave (Five Points) with enhanced pedestrian crosswalks and landscaped bulb-outs.
Project: Central City Community Bus Stop Improvements
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Council District 1, $1,200,000
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Room 410, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This project will include the design and installation of bus stop improvements along major transit corridors in community neighborhoods just west of downtown Los Angeles including Temple/Beaudry, Westlake/MacArthur Park, Historic Filipinotown, and Pico Union.
Project: Pasadena Ave. Pedestrian Connection to the Gold Line at Heritage Square
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Council District 1, $2,000,000
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Room 410, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This project aims to improve the pedestrian connectivity to Gold Line Heritage Square Station. The project consists of, but is not limited to, the following enhancements: decorative crosswalks to increase pedestrian visibility where appropriate, examine the possibility of curb extensions for traffic calming at Five Points, add street trees to provide shade, enhance sidewalks where applicable throughout the corridor, provide pedestrian scaled lighting and bus stop lights, add transit stop amenities such as shelters, benches, trash receptacles and bike racks throughout the corridor.
Project: Westlake MacArthur Pedestrian Improvement Project
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Council District 1, $1,200,000
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Room 410, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This project would make improvements to high priority areas by installing pedestrian scaled security lighting, bus benches, trash cans, footings for future transit shelters, planters with tree plantings, and ADA compliant access ramps.
Project: Central/Vernon Rapid Bus Intersection
Recipient: City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation, $256,000
Address: 100 S. Main St., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This project would add bus shelters and pedestrian lighting at all four corners of the Central/Vernon Intersection and improve transit and pedestrian environment with the addition of sidewalk treatments, benches, trash cans and trees.
Project: Beverly Boulevard Pedestrian Improvement Project
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Council District 13, $1,200,000
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Room 470, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This project would provide pedestrian safety, security, and convenience for public transit users on trips to nearby rail transit station, bus stops, schools, college, community organizations, hospital and medical centers, recreation centers and retail/commercial services along Beverly Boulevard corridor. The project would add curb ramps, street furniture, such as bicycle racks, bus benches, and transit shelters, as well as sidewalk improvements were tree roots have destroyed the sidewalk. The project would also add a pedestrian crossing and lighting to increase safety.
Project: Eagle Rock Blvd. Multi-Modal Transportation Improvement Project
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Council District 13, $1,680,000
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Room 470, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This project is primarily focused on providing a pedestrian friendly environment by improving the existing urban streetscape along Eagle Rock Boulevard in Glassell Park. The installation of street furniture such as transit benches, bike racks, bus shelters and curb ramps will complement this improvement by enhancing the connectivity of pedestrian traffic with the public transit system.
Project: Elysian Valley Street Lighting Phase III
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Council District 13, $1,600,000
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Room 470, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: The Elysian Valley Street Lighting Phase 3 Project would complete the project of installing street lights throughout the neighborhood. This project would greatly improve the safety conditions of the remaining part of the Elysian Valley neighborhood by adding street lights to a neighborhood that, historically, is one of the most under-lit and darkest neighborhoods in the city. Additional lighting would also assist with the anti-gang efforts that the City, the LAPD and the community have been leading against local gangs.
Project: Fletcher Drive Bus Stop & Pedestrian Improvements Project
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Council District 13, $1,200,000
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Room 470, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This project would provide a pedestrian friendly environment by improving the existing urban streetscape along Fletcher Drive, between San Fernando Road and Larga. The project would also include adding transit benches, bike racks, bus shelters and curb ramps at transit bus stops to encourage patrons to use public transportation.
Project: Sunset Junction Transit Plaza
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Council District 13, $4,800,000
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Room 470, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: The project includes construction of and improvements to regionally significant transit stops at Sanborn/Sunset and at Manzanita/Sunset that will improve connections to major destinations that surround Sunset Junction and direct access to the Metro Red Line Stations at Vermont/Santa Monica and at Vermont/Sunset. Bus operations improvements will be achieved through improvement of the westbound Santa Monica Boulevard bus lines by installation of a bus priority traffic signal at Manzanita/Sunset and a linked signal at Sanborn/Sunset. Other improvements create a new level of pedestrian access and safety that will make it easier to access and use transit into and out of the community.
Project: Vermont Pedestrian Improvements Project
Recipient: City of Los Angeles, Council District 13, $1,700,000
Address: 200 N. Spring St., Room 470, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: The intent of this project is to create a pedestrian-friendly corridor that will encourage multi-modal travel through added pedestrian amenities such as: additional landscaping, enhanced concrete sidewalks, safer pedestrian crossing points through enhanced-treated crosswalks, landscaped median islands, additional street furniture, and pedestrian-scaled way-finding signage.
Project: Clean-fuel replacement buses for South Central Los Angeles
Recipient: City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation, $320,000
Address: 100 S. Main St., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This request would provide funding to replace 1 clean-fuel Community DASH bus that operates on the Pueblo Del Rio route.
Project: Clean-fuel replacement buses for West Central Los Angeles
Recipient: City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation, $2,112,000
Address: 100 S. Main St., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This request would provide funding to replace 6 clean-fuel Community DASH buses that operate on the Larchmont, Beechwood Canyon and Vermont/Main routes.
Project: Clean-fuel replacement buses for North Central Los Angeles
Recipient: City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation, $3,200,000
Address: 100 S. Main St., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Project Description: This request would provide funding to replace 10 clean-fuel Community DASH buses that operate on the Highland Park/EagleRock and Lincoln Heights/Chinatown routes.