California
The consortium proposing to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles International Airport and Palmdale, a $1-billion project that was to be privately financed, on Monday asked for financial support from Los Angeles County because ridership estimates have been reduced by almost half.
Aug. 14, 1990
The consortium proposing to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles International Airport and Palmdale, a $1-billion project that was to be privately financed, Monday asked for financial support from the county because ridership estimates have been reduced by almost half.
Transit: Deputy executive Linda Bohlinger is chosen after two candidates drop out. Board shifts $300 million to subway construction despite warnings that it could shortchange bus riders.
Jan. 11, 1997
Lifestyle
Skilled country music songwriters expand their reach.
June 8, 2008
Transit: Proposal would have resolved dispute over delay in rail construction. Deadline with federal overseers looms Tuesday.
June 20, 1997
Transit: Agency panel rejects city plan to settle a dispute on construction of a Valley rail line.
Transit: The agency will move up construction four years, to 2007, to get $200 million the city has been withholding. But it may have to repay $50 million if it cannot meet the new deadline.
June 24, 1997
A Metropolitan Transportation Authority panel approved a plan Monday that calls for construction of a San Fernando Valley rail line to begin by 2007, but it left unanswered the question of how the project will be funded.
The proposed magnetic levitation rail line from Los Angeles International Airport to Palmdale, which had excited dreams of a commuter service connecting the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys to the Los Angeles West Side by 1997, was left in limbo by Caltrans on Friday.
Sept. 15, 1990
Business
The low-cost mortgage loans and real estate deals it handed out to its favored senior officials have turned out to be among the most costly financial misadventures of a public agency that has often conducted itself like the “Bank of MTA.”
June 21, 1998