$82.5 million Orange Line
Contract Awarded by Metro
The extension of the Orange Line busway from Canoga Park to Chatsworth is scheduled to open in 2012. Metro has awarded a contract for much of the work that needs to be completed. Here’s the memo from Metro CEO Art Leahy’s email to staff:
"We [have] issued Brutoco Engineering & Construction, Inc. a Notice of Award in the amount of $82.5 million for the design and construction of the four-mile busway extension for the Metro Orange Line (MOL). The contract includes: four new stations; new platforms at Canoga Station; grade-separation structure over active railroad tracks and Lassen Street providing direct access into the Chatsworth Metrolink Station; a bicycle/pedestrian path connecting to an existing path at Browns Creek; a park/ride lot at Sherman Way Station; expanded parking at Chatsworth Metrolink Station; landscaping; Los Angeles River and Santa Susana Wash bridge crossings; street improvements; and satellite bus parking facility." The $215.6-million busway extension will be the first major transit project to open that was funded by the Measure R sales tax increase approved by Los Angeles County voters in November 2008.
Contract Awarded by Metro
The extension of the Orange Line busway from Canoga Park to Chatsworth is scheduled to open in 2012. Metro has awarded a contract for much of the work that needs to be completed. Here’s the memo from Metro CEO Art Leahy’s email to staff:
"We [have] issued Brutoco Engineering & Construction, Inc. a Notice of Award in the amount of $82.5 million for the design and construction of the four-mile busway extension for the Metro Orange Line (MOL). The contract includes: four new stations; new platforms at Canoga Station; grade-separation structure over active railroad tracks and Lassen Street providing direct access into the Chatsworth Metrolink Station; a bicycle/pedestrian path connecting to an existing path at Browns Creek; a park/ride lot at Sherman Way Station; expanded parking at Chatsworth Metrolink Station; landscaping; Los Angeles River and Santa Susana Wash bridge crossings; street improvements; and satellite bus parking facility." The $215.6-million busway extension will be the first major transit project to open that was funded by the Measure R sales tax increase approved by Los Angeles County voters in November 2008.
— Steve Hymon, Metro