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Chennai Broadway bus terminus to be temporarily shifted to Royapuram

The Broadway MTC bus terminus, Chennai. File photo | Photo Credit: Athullyea Padmanabhan The MTC bus terminus at Broadway, behind the Kuralagam building, will soon be shifted temporarily to a land belonging to the Chennai Port Trust in Royapuram. The terminus had to be shifted to a site that is 1.5 km away from Broadway as a multi-modal hub is set to come up at the location at a cost of ₹822…

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7th Avenue, Manhattan (No. 2) 

Seventh Avenue was originally laid out in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811.

The southern terminus of Seventh Avenue was Eleventh Street in Greenwich Village through the early part of the 20th century. It was extended southward, as Seventh Avenue South, to link up with Varick Street in 1914, and Varick was widened at the same time. Extension of the avenue allowed better vehicular connections between midtown Manhattan and the commercial district in what is now TriBeCa. It also permitted construction of the New York City Subway IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line which opened in 1918. 

Extension of the avenue was under consideration for several years, and was approved by the New York City Board of Estimate in September 1911, when the first $3 million appropriation was made for the initial planning of the work. The extension had been urged by civic groups to meet the commercial needs of Greenwich Village. A significant number of old buildings were marked for demolition in the extension, and the demolished buildings included the Bedford Street Methodist Church, constructed in 1840. 

Most of Seventh Avenue has carried traffic one-way southbound since June 6, 1954. The portion north of Times Square carried two-way traffic until March 10, 1957. 

Seventh Avenue is served by the 1, ​2, and ​3 trains for most of its length, with N, ​Q, ​R, and ​W service between 42nd Street and Central Park South. The Seventh Avenue station also serves the B, ​D​, and E trains. North of the park, Powell Boulevard is served by the Harlem–148th Street on the 3 train, and the 155th Street station on the B and ​D trains. It is also served by numerous local MTA New York City Bus routes, primarily the M7 and M20 south of Central Park and the M2 north of the park.

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This transport hub is Chennai corporation's grand plan for Broadway - ET HospitalityWorld

This transport hub is Chennai corporation’s grand plan for Broadway – ET HospitalityWorld

An imposing structure may become the new landmark and a hub of activity in North Chennai if all goes as per plan. Greater Chennai Corporation will call for an expression of interest to construct a Rs 900cr multimodal facility complex in Broadway in place of the present bus terminus. Originally proposed in 2003, the project did not take off owing to several impediments. There was no alternate site…

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NSC Bose Road thrown open for two-way traffic after five years

NSC Bose Road thrown open for two-way traffic after five years

The recently-restored two-way traffic arrangement on a section of NSC Bose Road is considered very road-user friendly, not least because many bus commuters are now spared a trudge towards the Broadway terminus.

In the last five years, when a one-way traffic arrangement was in place between the Madras High Court premises and the Broadway bus terminus on NSC Bose Road to facilitate Metro Rail…

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Mapped: LA’s public transit plan over the next 11 years

Photos by Greg Lilly, Metro & Connecting LAX. Original article by Matt Tinoco.

By the time Los Angeles hosts the 2028 Olympic games, visitors from around the world will find that they can ride the train to LAX, hop aboard the subway to Urban Light, and cruise straight from Santa Monica to East Los Angeles via light rail.

Flush with cash from Measure M, the voter-approved half-cent sales tax, Metro will expand the transit network so much during the next decade that Los Angeles may very well boast the nation’s second most extensive rail system—second only to New York.

“The Olympics didn’t create our transportation revolution, but the revolution is readying us for a successful Olympics,” Metro spokeswoman Kim Upton tells Curbed LA.

Dozens of other infrastructure improvements are also in the works, all in a quest to give Angelenos and tourists more public transit options so they don’t have to take the freeway.

Here is a map of what LA’s transit system will look like in 11 years, provided by Metro:

Below, we’ve highlighted some of the biggest of these public transportation projects:

The Westside subway extension

By 2028, Metro plans to operate rapid, heavy-rail service beneath most of Wilshire Boulevard, extending the subway nine-miles from its current terminus at Western Avenue, all the way to the VA hospital, west of the 405 freeway. Originally mapped out in the 1980s, construction for Westside Subway was snarled by litigation and legislation. Once complete, it promises a 25-minute ride between Downtown LA and Westwood.

Metro plans to open the subway in two phases. The first, which will add subway stops to the intersections of Wilshire Boulevard and La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega, is under construction now. Before Measure M passed, Metro anticipated this section would open by 2023. But, the extra cash means this date will likely be much sooner. Under the Measure M expenditure plan, Metro anticipates the second portion of tracks should be operational by 2027 at the latest, adding subway stations to Wilshire/Rodeo (drive in Beverly Hills), Century City, Westwood, and the VA Hospital.

The Crenshaw Line

Connecting the Expo Line to the Green Line, the 8.5-mile Crenshaw Line will add light rail service south from the Expo/Crenshaw Station through Leimert Park, Crenshaw, Inglewood, and portions of unincorporated (but densely populated) Los Angeles County. Construction on the the Crenshaw Line is blistering along, and Metro anticipates a fall 2019 opening date.

Though not at first, the Crenshaw Line will eventually be the vehicle by which Angelenos will connect to LAX by train. By 2024, Metro will have added a station near 96th Street/Aviation Boulevard that will connect to the LAX Automated People Mover, allowing easy, car-free transportation to and from our beloved and bemoaned airport.

The LAX automated people mover

With an anticipated 2023 opening date, the LAX Automated People Mover will mean Angelenos will finally be able to take the train to the airport. Once open, the people mover will serve a station on the Crenshaw and Green Lines, connecting them to the broader Metro rail network.

“It’s an important program for people Angelenos and people visiting L.A. alike, far beyond just the Olympics,” said Mark Waier, the director of communications for Los Angeles World Airports. “It will relieve congestion in and around the airport. And, we are doing it with a timeline that will deliver it well before the Olympics in 2028.”

That said, the Metro rail connection is just one part of a broad push by Los Angeles World Airports to de-stress the experience of getting in and out of LAX. Six stations will adorn the APM once complete. Three of these stations will serve LAX’s various terminals inside the airport itself. The other three stations will serve a pair of “Intermodal Transportation Facilities,” and a consolidated rental car center. The two ITFs will serve to reduce the amount of congestion inside the airport itself, providing more accessible spots for drop-off, and bus and rail connections. The consolidated rental car center will draw all the various rental-car companies, currently scattered throughout Westchester, under one roof.

The Downtown Regional Connector

Metro calls the Downtown Regional Connector the “missing link” in its rail system. Once complete in 2021, the Regional Connector will connect the Gold Line directly to the Blue and Expo Lines, and add three shiny new train stations to Downtown LA. Right now, train riders traveling from, say, USC to Pasadena or East Los Angeles, have to deal with a clunky double transfer (Expo to Red to Gold) to get to their destination. The regional connector will eliminate at least one of these transfers by consolidating the current three light-rail lines into just two. One of these will run on an east-west axis, from Santa Monica to East Los Angeles. The other will run on a north-south axis, connecting Long Beach to Azusa.

The trains will run together for five stations through Downtown LA, three of which will be new. Joining the the Pico and Seventh Street/Metro Center stations will be the Little Tokyo/Arts District station at First Street and Central, a station at Second Street and Broadway, and a Bunker Hill station at Second Street and Hope.

Bus Rapid Transit on Vermont

By 2028, Metro hopes to have installed a Bus Rapid Transit line on Vermont Avenue, from Hollywood Boulevard and 120th Street, and right by the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Bus Rapid Transit consists of buses that operate like trains. They have their own dedicated lanes that cars can’t enter or block, their own stations where people pay fares before boarding, and their own segregated signals. The level of service is comparable to light rail, but without the high cost to build.

How this will play out is a little bit more ambiguous. Where the other aforementioned projects have all been thoroughly planned, development of this project is a bit more present tense. It’s worth mentioning, too, that Metro intends to build a similar BRT line connecting the North Hollywood Red Line Station to the Del Mar Gold Line station, in Pasadena. This line, functionally serving as an extension of the Valley’s Orange Line, would offer transit connection to Burbank and Glendale, along its way to Pasadena.

Van Nuys Boulevard Transportation Corridor

Speaking of the Valley, the Measure M expenditure plan targets the opening of a major transportation project along Van Nuys Boulevard sometime between 2027 and 2029. While this project is also in a nascent planning stage, Metro wants to build either a high-capacity bus, tram or light-rail system along Van Nuys Boulevard, from the city of San Fernando to Sherman Oaks.

This corridor would also connect to the Sepulveda Pass transportation project, an ambitious plan to link eventually the Valley to the Westwood subway station, and eventually to LAX. Metro anticipates the first phase of the Sepulveda Pass project to complete sometime between 2026 and 2028, though it’s important to note that this will likely take the form of a express bus on the 405, at least initially. Phase two of the project, ostensibly a heavy rail train like the Red and Purple lines, is slated for completion in the mid 2030s.

Other plans 

Aside from the big Metro construction projects will come a slew of other infrastructure improvements crucial to keeping Los Angeles moving. Eleven years from now, Los Angeles’s bike share network will have grown to blanket great swaths of the city, in neighborhoods like North Hollywood, Koreatown, and across the Westside. Bike lanes, and other pedestrian improvements a part of the city’s Vision Zero(traffic deaths) campaign, will likewise come along.

Metro is also hard at work on improving its enormous network of buses. While this is also more ambiguous at this point, Metro has articulated a goal to vastly improve bus connectivity and reliabilityover the next decade, not to mention rolling out an all-electric fleet. Though Metro rail gets lots of good press, it’s critical to remember that Metro’s bus fleet carries more than twice as many passengers as Metro Rail.

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July 4th Calendar (2017)

PARADES:

I would not want to be a COTA supervisor having to navigate my operators through ALL of these re-routes.  If you need to get around to Northland, Bexley, Dublin, the Short North, Reynoldsburg, Gahanna, Hilliard, Upper Arlington, or on July 3 - Downtown and Franklinton, good luck with that.

BEXLEY: “This American Life” (Starts at Maryland Avenue Elementary School; Ends at Fair Avenue & S. Cassingham Rd., Bexley; http://www.bexley.org/fourth) (COTA - Closest Routes: # 1 Kenny/Livingston; # 2 East Main/North High and # 10 East/West Broad will be rerouted during the parade) COLUMBUS (July 3): (Starts at W. Main St. & 2nd St., End at N. Front St. & W. Spring St., Downtown Columbus; http://www.redwhiteandboom.org)  (COTA - Various Routes, most will be detoured AND delayed due to the parade; SEE BELOW for BOOM SERVICE)  DELAWARE: (Starts at Sandusky Street, Ends at William and Henry Streets, Delaware; http://www.delawareohio.net/) DUBLIN: “Do You Feel Like We Do About The Red, White, and Blue?” (Starts at Metro Place; Ends at S. High St. & Waterford Drive, Dublin; http://dublinohiousa.gov/independence-day-celebration/) (COTA - Closest Route: # 33 Henderson, which will be re-routed during the parade)  GAHANNA: “American Pride” (Starts at Clark Hall, Ends at Agler & Stygler Rds., Gahanna; http://www.gahanna.gov/IndependenceDay.aspx) (COTA - Closest Route: # 24 Hamilton; # 25 Brice will be re-routed)  GROVEPORT (Childrens’ Parade on Main Street; Main Parade Starts at Groveport Elementary School; http://www.groveport.org/index.php/community-affairs/special-events) HILLIARD: “Home of the Free Because of The Brave” (Starts at Franklin County Fairgrounds, Ends at Hilliard Memorial Middle School; http://www.destinationhilliard.com)  (COTA - Closest Routes: # 21 Hilliard-Rome & # 32 North Broadway, both of which will be re-routed)  LEWIS CENTER/OLENTANGY/POLARIS:  (Starts at Olentangy Orange High School, Ends at Walker Wood Park; http://olentangyparade.com)  LINCOLN VILLAGE (June 24): “Celebrating our Broad CommUNITY” (JUNE 24; http://www.waba-cols.org/) (Closest Buses: Line # 9 W Mound/Brentnell, # 10 East/West Broad, or # 21 Hilliard-Rome)  NEW ALBANY: (Starts at New Albany High School; http://www.newalbanycommunityevents.com/julyfourth.html) REYNOLDSBURG: (Starts at Main St. & Rosehill Rd., Ends at Huber Park; http://www.ci.reynoldsburg.oh.us/events.aspx) (Closest Bus: # 2 or 25, but you’d have to walk from Brice Road on Lines # 2 & 25, or Graham Road on Line # 2) SHORT NORTH: Doo Dah Parade (Starts at Buttles Ave. & Park St., Ends at N. High St. & W. Russell St.) (COTA - Closest Routes: # 1 Kenny/Livingston, # 2 East Main/North High, # 4 Indianola/Lockbourne, # 5 W 5th/Refugee, # 8 Karl/South High, and the CBUS; ALL except the # 4 will be rerouted for the parade) UPPER ARLINGTON: “Reflections (Celebrating 99 Years of Community Spirit and Tradition)” (Starts at Northwest Blvd. & Zollinger Rd., ending at Northwest Blvd. & North Star Rd.; http://www.uaca.org) (COTA - Closest Routes: # 3 Northwest/Harrisburg and # 32 North Broadway, which will be re-routed, and # 31 Hudson, near the terminus of the parade) WESTERVILLE: “Home of the Free...Because of the Brave” with Grand Marshal, Two-Time Heisman Trophy Winner Archie Griffin (Starts at St. Paul the Apostle Parish, Ends at Westerville South High School; http://www.westervillerotary.com)   WORTHINGTON HILLS: “Broadway Scene in 2017″ (Starts at Clubview North & Highview; Ends at Worthington Hills Elementary School; http://www.worthingtonhills.org) 

FIREWORKS FESTIVITIES (ALL July 4th, unless noted): ASHVILLE - Teays Valley High School (http://www.ashvilleohio.gov/) BEXLEY - Capital University (http://www.bexleycelebrations.org)  CLINTONVILLE - Whetstone Park COLUMBUS (June 30) - Patriotic Pops at Columbus Commons (http://www.columbussymphony.org)  COLUMBUS (July 3) - Red, White, and Boom/Downtown Riverfront (http://www.redwhiteandboom.org)  DELAWARE - Ohio Wesleyan University Practice Fields (http://www.delawareohio.net/) DUBLIN - Dublin Coffman High School, with Peter Frampton as the Headliner (http://dublinohiousa.gov/independence-day-celebration/) GAHANNA - Gahanna Municipal Golf Course (http://www.gahanna.gov)  GRANVILLE (July 1)  - Wildwood Park (http://www.granvillekiwanisclub.org/July4th) GROVE CITY - Grove City High School (http://www.grovecityohio.gov)  GROVEPORT - Wirt Road Park (http://www.groveport.org/index.php/community-affairs/special-events) HILLIARD - Roger A. Reynolds Municipal Park LANCASTER - Fairfield County Fairgrounds (http://www.ci.lancaster.oh.us/) LEWIS CENTER (July 1) - Olentangy High School  LONDON (July 3) - London High School MARION - Marion County Fairgrounds MARYSVILLE - Union County Fairgrounds  NEW ALBANY - New Albany High School (http://www.newalbanycommunityevents.com/julyfourth.html) NEWARK (July 3) - Martha Grace Ampitheatre at COTC/OSU-Newark PLAIN CITY - Pastime Park PICKERINGTON - Victory Park POWELL (June 24) - Village Green Park (http://festival.cityofpowell.us/)  REYNOLDSBURG (July 3) - Civic Park (http://www.ci.reynoldsburg.oh.us/events.aspx)  SUNBURY - Big Walnut High School  UPPER ARLINGTON - Northam Park (http://www.uaca.org) WHITEHALL (July 3) - Whitehall-Yearling High School WORTHINGTON - Thomas Worthington High School WORTHINGTON HILLS - Worthington Hills Country Club

RED, WHITE, and BOOM SERVICE: Line 1 (to Bethel & Sawmill): Zone M at S High St & E Broad St Line 1 (to Reynoldsburg Park & Ride): Zone C at N High St & W Broad St Line 2 (to Clintonville): Zone I at N High St & E Spring St Line 2 (to Whitehall or Reynoldsburg): Zone C Line 2L (to Wortthington & Polaris): Zone I Line 3 (to Grove City): Zone C Line 3 (to Upper Arlington/Kingsdale): Zone M Line 4 (to Marion-Franklin/Alum Creek & Williams): Zone B at N High St & W Long St Line 4 (to the Continent): Zone M Line 5 (to Grandview, Hollywood Casino, and/or Renner Rd): Zone K at N High St & E Broad St Line 5 (to Driving Park or Eastland Mall & Gender Rd): Zone B Line 6 (to Hollywood Casino): Zone D at S High St & Capitol Squre & Zone N at W Broad St & N Skidmore St Line 6 (to Northland or Westerville): Zone J at N High St & E Gay/Long St Line 7 (to Airport or Easton): Zone J Line 8 (to Great Southern): Zone B Line 8 (to Northland): Zone K Line 9 (to Galloway): Zones D & N Line 9 (to Easton): Zone J Line 10 (to Galloway): Zones D & N Line 10 (to Whitehall or Reynoldsburg): Zone L at E Broad St & S High/3rd St Line 11 (to Clintonville via Maize & Joyce): Zone K Line 11 (to Maryhaven): Zone L Line 13 (to Griggs Dam Park & Ride): Zone M

EXPRESS:  Worthington: Worthington Kilbourne High School (1499 Hard Rd., Worthington; Best if you live in Dublin, Powell, or Worthington); Board at Zone G at N High St & E Nationwide Blvd Crosswoods: Crosswoods Park & Ride (7460 Huntington Park Dr., Worthington; Best if you live in Worthington, Lewis Center, or Delaware); Board at Zone F at E Nationwide Blvd & N 3rd St Grove City: Grove City Park & Ride (2321 Stringtown Rd., Grove City); Board at Zone E at S High St & W State St Reynoldsburg: Reynoldsburg Park & Ride (2100 Birchview Dr., Reynoldsburg; Best if you live in Reynoldsburg or Pickerington); Board at Zone E at S High St & W State St Gahanna: Gahanna Park & Ride (Agler & Stygler Rds., Gahanna; Best if you live in Gahanna, Blacklick, or New Albany); Board at Zone L at E Broad St & Statehouse (between High & 3rd) Northwest: Olentangy/Bethel Park & Ride (4990 Olentangy River Rd., Northwest Columbus; Best if you live in Hilliard, Upper Arlington, Clintonville, Worthington, or Northwest Columbus); Board at Zone A, inside the Spring Street Terminal Westerville: Westerville Park & Ride (312 W. Main St., Westerville; Best if you live in Westerville, Polaris, Galena, Sunbury, or New Albany); Board at Zone H, at E Chestnut St & Pearl Alley For more on COTA Red, White, and Boom Service, plus re-routes for Suburban Parades, go to http://www.cota.com/redwhiteandboom.