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May 16, 2024 Fireworks erupted during the city of Downey's regular meeting Tuesday night, with the council voting 3-2 to ban the LGBQ+ Pride flag, hiding it behind a "neutral flag policy" that will ban such displays; the item was brought forward for a vote by Mayor Pro Tem Hector Sosa. It was a mean-spirited vote given the fact that…

Construction of the 9.1-mile, $1.6 billion Foothill Gold Line Extension light rail project in the eastern San Gabriel Valley is more than 80% complete, with all the bridge, grade-crossing and track-laying work wrapped up, according to a year-end report from the rail line construction authority.

The hate-filled calls received during the City Council meeting Tuesday follow a pattern of harassment at public meetings throughout California, Claremont officials said.

It’s fitting in a way that it took nearly eight hours to get the job done, but early Wednesday morning the Claremont City Council finally approved an update to the city’s housing element, ending a 20-month saga to bring the city back into compliance with state law.

Stations, electrical, and other work still underway, but the $2.1 billion 9.1-mile San Gabriel Valley rail line is more than 70 percent finished, and expected to be completed in January 2025

Railroad industry news about: Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority, light-rail track construction, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, San Gabriel Valley. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority (Construction Authority) held a Track Completion Ceremony to celebrate the completion of...

All reconstruction work requiring long-term street closures is now finished for the 21 at-grade crossings along Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (LA Metro) Foothill Gold Line light rail project. This is

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority (Construction Authority) announced that all grade crossing reconstruction work requiring...

Learn more about construction progress along the 9-mile Foothill Gold Line Extension from Glendora to Pomona; as of December, construction was nearly two-thirds complete.