{"id":349505,"date":"2010-02-22T12:21:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f76\/82-5-million-orange-line-contract-awarded-metro-39790\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:21:29","slug":"82-5-million-orange-line-contract-awarded-by-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/349505","title":{"rendered":"$82.5 million Orange Line Contract Awarded by Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b><font face=\"Georgia\"><font size=\"4\"><font color=\"#000099\"><font size=\"5\"><font color=\"#333333\"><b><font face=\"Arial\">$82.5 million Orange Line <br \/>\nContract Awarded by Metro<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/font><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b> <br \/>\n<font face=\"Arial\">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&#8217;s the memo from Metro CEO Art Leahy&#8217;s email to staff:<\/font><br \/>\n&quot;We [have] issued Brutoco Engineering &amp; 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.&quot; <font face=\"Arial\">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.<\/font><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?et=1103072572153&amp;s=1376&amp;e=001XMctNeOH3YuO17m4kuZ922LuOTPILtaOdoPkKLNDH3f5-fhtg4del-C3mnnjSH6aJxX5vlXODB-TTtmIpsY3LiFvS6QytMis-1iU-R55d-QlKcWUCPshQR0JqQGGaqkjnotOsQIcBGc=\" ><font color=\"#000080\">Steve Hymon<\/font><\/a>, Metro<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$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&#8217;s the memo from Metro CEO Art Leahy&#8217;s email to staff: &quot;We [have] issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}