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significant progress for the Foothill Gold Line. It began with the on-time, on-budget 9-mile, four-station Glendora to Pomona project reaching substantial completion in January 2025 and culminated in the four new stations opening for passenger service on Sept. 19. “The Kiewit-Parsons team did an outstanding job designing and constructing the light rail project, despite significant and unprecedented challenges,” said Construction Authority CEO Habib F. Balian. “It is unusual for a large infrastructure project to come in on time and on budget, but KPJV was partners with the Construction Authority from the start and found ways to innovate and keep the project moving through the Covid-19 Pandemic, historic heatwaves and historic rains.”
legacy,” said Mark Fialkowski, president, Infrastructure North America for Parsons. “Extending light rail options opens access to neighborhoods that were once limited for commuters. The A Line expansion will improve commuter and visitor access between downtown Los Angeles and the eastern portion of Los Angeles County.” In January, the Construction Authority board also approved a Request for Proposals for the second of the two contracts, the construction manager contract, that is expected to be awarded in May. Assuming a successful bid for the construction work, it is expected that major construction would begin in late- 2027/early-2028 and take approximately four years to complete.
Funding for the Claremont Extension is coming from State Senate Bill 125, after the Metro board named the project the county’s top priority for state funding and awarded $798 million to the project in October 2024. Looking Back on a Historic 2025 Leading up to the milestone start of 2026, was a year of
The design-build contract for the Foothill Gold Line from Glendora to Pomona was executed in October 2019, and major construction on the project began in July 2020 after several months of final design work. LA County’s Measure M half- cent sales tax provided the majority of funding for the project, along with nearly $100 million of residual funds from the Measure R half-cent sales tax not used to complete
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