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Sections of the Interstate 405 Freeway will be closed to motorists Tuesday and Wednesday nights, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Tuesday.

A 4-mile extension to the Orange Line busway will open at the end of June, officials announced Tuesday, allowing commuters a one-seat ride from Chatsworth to the Red Line subway station in North Hollywood.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority says that Carmageddon II will not happen until closer to the end of this summer.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority now says that Carmageddon II will not happen until closer to the end of this summer.

The board of directors of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted Thursday to begin locking gates at Red Line and Purple Line subway stations this summer, bringing an end to the ticketing system that's been in place for more than two decades.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors today approved locking the gates at all Red and Purple line subway stops by Dec.

The Daily Journal's Ciaran McEvoy ran one of the paper's periodic updates on the epic lawsuit between the MTA and one of its subway contractors accused of overbilling - way back on the original subway project.

This Nov. 8, 2011 file photo shows students standing on the lawn in front of Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The long fight over sending a subway 70 feet under Beverly Hills High School has spawned a pair of warring videos that in some ways are overshadowing the policy and geology of the dispute.

Resolving a key issue in a $890-million transit contract, federal officials announced Wednesday that a Japanese firm's plan to build up to 235 cars for Los Angeles-area light-rail lines complies with requirements that American workers be used for final assembly.

Jerry Schneiderman was not your ordinary real estate developer. For years, he was a rabble rouser who took on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority after tunneling for the Red Line subway collapsed parts of Hollywood Boulevard.

As part of the ongoing alternatives analysis process for the 710 Freeway extension project, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority will hold a series of local open houses.

James. D. Pachan has been named chief operating officer of AC Transit. Pachan has 30 years of transit management experience, primarily at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority , the fourth largest transit agency in the nation, where he successfully lead several major projects including conversion of fare payments to smart ... (more)

In the first quarter of 2012, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach combined moved 3.18 million containers.

A bus driver was shot to death in West Hollywood Sunday by a passenger authorities say jumped out of the vehicle's window and attempted to flee down a street before he was captured.The driver, whose name was not released, died at a local hospital, said sheriff's Deputy Jeff Gordon.

State safety regulators have ordered stringent inspections of a downtown Los Angeles rail junction for the newly opened Expo Line because of a serious design flaw that poses an increased risk of train derailments.

The following is a press release from the Beverly Hills Unified School District.

The rhetoric over a proposed extension of a Los Angeles County transportation tax heated up againthis week after three members of Congressand a county supervisor called into questionplans for usingbillions of dollars in additional revenue.