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Bart Reed
User ID: 1606604 Apr 23rd 11:18 PM
Los Angeles Daily News: Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Transit hub on the way
Terminal to cost nearly $11 million
By Jim Skeen
Staff Writer
PALMDALE -- City officials broke ground Tuesday for a $10.8 million transit center that will serve bus riders, Metrolink train passengers and car-pool participants, and will provide a major anchor for a revitalized downtown.
Before a gathering of about 100 people, the city formally marked the start of construction of the transportation center, expected to be open in August 2004 on 26 acres west of Sierra Highway and south of Technology Drive.
"This is an exciting start to a project that's going to help define our downtown," said Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford.
The center will be built in the same Spanish-Mediterranean motif as used for the Civic Center, with a domed 45-foot-high clock tower.
The 3,150-square-foot terminal building will be served by 600 parking spaces and include a bus transfer facility with parking bays for eight buses. The bus facility could serve Antelope Valley Transit Agency, Greyhound or Amtrak buses.
The center is being funded through a variety of sources, including $5.6 million in grants from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transport-ation Authority, $3.5 million from the city's own coffers, and $1 million from federal transport-ation funding, funding that Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, helped secure.
Other funding was provided by the Antelope Valley Transit Agency, the state Department of Transportation and Los Angeles County.
"This is a great enterprise," said Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts, an MTA board member. "The Antelope Valley can be proud of this."
Work on the center actually started in the fall with an $800,000 contract to create an under-ground storm drain. The storm drain replaced an open boulder-lined channel that crosses where the Metrolink passenger platform is planned. That work is wrapping up.
A contract to perform the bulk of the work on the center is scheduled to be awarded in July, and work will begin in August.
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Bart Reed
User ID: 1606604 Apr 25th 9:41 PM
Antelope Valley Press: Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Travel center construction begins
By BOB WILSON
Valley Press Staff Writer
PALMDALE - Congressman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon helped Palmdale officials mark the beginning of work on a new regional transportation facility Tuesday that could jump-start air travel from Palmdale Regional Airport.
Besides helping turn a ceremonial shovelful of dirt, McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, presented the city with $1 million in federal transportation funds to help pay for the $10 million facility.
"This is your taxpayer dollars at work," McKeon said. "It's fantastic, the vision that our leadership here in the Antelope Valley has," the congressman continued.
"I appreciate the opportunity to be a small part of it," he said. "And I want to be back when you finish it."
When completed, "The Palmdale Transportation Center will be the transportation hub of the Antelope Valley, and it will help define our downtown," Mayor Jim Ledford said.
As a hub for a number of modes of travel, it also could help lead to the resumption of air travel from Palmdale Regional Airport, Ledford said.
Initial work on the facility began in October, when Palmdale began constructing a box culvert for a portion of Amargosa Creek at Sierra Highway and Avenue P-12.
The culvert will form the basis of what will be the passenger-loading platform for the facility's 3,150-square-foot Metrolink train station, said Leon Swain, Palmdale's assistant director of Public Works.
When completed, the 26-acre center will have 300 parking spaces for train riders and 300 spaces for park-and-ride and vanpool commuters, eight bus bays for bus riders, stops for taxis, paths for bike riders and pedestrians, and a 45-foot clock tower with landscaping.
The city should be able to select a contractor for the project by the end of summer, Swain said.
"By the end of August next year, hopefully, we'll have the grand opening," he said.
Ledford took the opportunity to thank many people involved with obtaining the funds and approvals for the project, including Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich and Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts.
According to Ledford, both men "played key roles in getting us funds for this facility" from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the funding of projects throughout the county.
Roberts, second vice chairman of the MTA's board of directors, helped establish a Metrolink line in the Antelope Valley as a member of the Lancaster City Council.
By declaring a local state of emergency two days after the Jan. 17, 1994, Northridge earthquake, the Lancaster council made negotiating the introduction of Metrolink service to and from the Antelope Valley possible.
All told, the MTA is putting up $5.64 million of the Palmdale facility's $10.08 million cost.
"Soon, there will be thousands of people moving through here, from work to home and back again by bus, by train, by carpool and vanpool," said David Sutton, Rideshare programs manager for MTA.
"The people of Palmdale are to be congratulated for preparing for their future transportation needs and for ensuring Palmdale's growth as a vibrant city of tomorrow," Sutton said.
The city will use state Proposition A funds to offset $3.5 million of the cost, as well as:
* $247,500 in Federal Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century funds;
* $208,000 from the multijurisdictional Antelope Valley Transit Authority;
* $200,000 from the county of Los Angeles; and
* $6,000 from Caltrans, the state Department of Transportation.
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Elson
User ID: 1453344 Aug 20th 2:53 AM
How far is this from the old Metrolink Palmdale station?
mike wills
User ID: 1181464 Aug 20th 11:06 AM
Metrolink used to have addresses for the sites of their future stations, and I own Ed Simburger's guide to Metrolink which has the address for the old Palmdale station. I looked both address up some years ago, and if memory serves me correctly they were about a mile apart
User ID: 1606604 Apr 23rd 11:18 PM
Los Angeles Daily News: Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Transit hub on the way
Terminal to cost nearly $11 million
By Jim Skeen
Staff Writer
PALMDALE -- City officials broke ground Tuesday for a $10.8 million transit center that will serve bus riders, Metrolink train passengers and car-pool participants, and will provide a major anchor for a revitalized downtown.
Before a gathering of about 100 people, the city formally marked the start of construction of the transportation center, expected to be open in August 2004 on 26 acres west of Sierra Highway and south of Technology Drive.
"This is an exciting start to a project that's going to help define our downtown," said Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford.
The center will be built in the same Spanish-Mediterranean motif as used for the Civic Center, with a domed 45-foot-high clock tower.
The 3,150-square-foot terminal building will be served by 600 parking spaces and include a bus transfer facility with parking bays for eight buses. The bus facility could serve Antelope Valley Transit Agency, Greyhound or Amtrak buses.
The center is being funded through a variety of sources, including $5.6 million in grants from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transport-ation Authority, $3.5 million from the city's own coffers, and $1 million from federal transport-ation funding, funding that Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, helped secure.
Other funding was provided by the Antelope Valley Transit Agency, the state Department of Transportation and Los Angeles County.
"This is a great enterprise," said Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts, an MTA board member. "The Antelope Valley can be proud of this."
Work on the center actually started in the fall with an $800,000 contract to create an under-ground storm drain. The storm drain replaced an open boulder-lined channel that crosses where the Metrolink passenger platform is planned. That work is wrapping up.
A contract to perform the bulk of the work on the center is scheduled to be awarded in July, and work will begin in August.
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Bart Reed
User ID: 1606604 Apr 25th 9:41 PM
Antelope Valley Press: Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Travel center construction begins
By BOB WILSON
Valley Press Staff Writer
PALMDALE - Congressman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon helped Palmdale officials mark the beginning of work on a new regional transportation facility Tuesday that could jump-start air travel from Palmdale Regional Airport.
Besides helping turn a ceremonial shovelful of dirt, McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, presented the city with $1 million in federal transportation funds to help pay for the $10 million facility.
"This is your taxpayer dollars at work," McKeon said. "It's fantastic, the vision that our leadership here in the Antelope Valley has," the congressman continued.
"I appreciate the opportunity to be a small part of it," he said. "And I want to be back when you finish it."
When completed, "The Palmdale Transportation Center will be the transportation hub of the Antelope Valley, and it will help define our downtown," Mayor Jim Ledford said.
As a hub for a number of modes of travel, it also could help lead to the resumption of air travel from Palmdale Regional Airport, Ledford said.
Initial work on the facility began in October, when Palmdale began constructing a box culvert for a portion of Amargosa Creek at Sierra Highway and Avenue P-12.
The culvert will form the basis of what will be the passenger-loading platform for the facility's 3,150-square-foot Metrolink train station, said Leon Swain, Palmdale's assistant director of Public Works.
When completed, the 26-acre center will have 300 parking spaces for train riders and 300 spaces for park-and-ride and vanpool commuters, eight bus bays for bus riders, stops for taxis, paths for bike riders and pedestrians, and a 45-foot clock tower with landscaping.
The city should be able to select a contractor for the project by the end of summer, Swain said.
"By the end of August next year, hopefully, we'll have the grand opening," he said.
Ledford took the opportunity to thank many people involved with obtaining the funds and approvals for the project, including Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich and Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts.
According to Ledford, both men "played key roles in getting us funds for this facility" from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the funding of projects throughout the county.
Roberts, second vice chairman of the MTA's board of directors, helped establish a Metrolink line in the Antelope Valley as a member of the Lancaster City Council.
By declaring a local state of emergency two days after the Jan. 17, 1994, Northridge earthquake, the Lancaster council made negotiating the introduction of Metrolink service to and from the Antelope Valley possible.
All told, the MTA is putting up $5.64 million of the Palmdale facility's $10.08 million cost.
"Soon, there will be thousands of people moving through here, from work to home and back again by bus, by train, by carpool and vanpool," said David Sutton, Rideshare programs manager for MTA.
"The people of Palmdale are to be congratulated for preparing for their future transportation needs and for ensuring Palmdale's growth as a vibrant city of tomorrow," Sutton said.
The city will use state Proposition A funds to offset $3.5 million of the cost, as well as:
* $247,500 in Federal Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century funds;
* $208,000 from the multijurisdictional Antelope Valley Transit Authority;
* $200,000 from the county of Los Angeles; and
* $6,000 from Caltrans, the state Department of Transportation.
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Elson
User ID: 1453344 Aug 20th 2:53 AM
How far is this from the old Metrolink Palmdale station?
mike wills
User ID: 1181464 Aug 20th 11:06 AM
Metrolink used to have addresses for the sites of their future stations, and I own Ed Simburger's guide to Metrolink which has the address for the old Palmdale station. I looked both address up some years ago, and if memory serves me correctly they were about a mile apart