Metro Connector Project Pushes Forward


View of the LA skyline is visible as excavation was completed on First Street. Photo by Ken Karagozian By Carol Eaton


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critical transportation project underway in the heart of downtown Los Angeles – the


Metro Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project – is making steady progress six years into construction as it pushes towards completion in mid-2022. Now approximately two-thirds


complete, the $1.81 billion megaproject (partially funded by the voter approved Measure R half cent sales tax) will offer transit riders direct east/west and north/south connections through downtown Los Angeles, with the promise to shave riders’ commute times significantly. Traveling mostly underground, the


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Regional Connector will join Metro’s Blue, Expo and Gold light rail lines via a pair of new 1.9-mile twin tunnels. It will add three new stations: Little Tokyo/Arts District Station, Historic Broadway Station, and Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill Station. Te Project’s high-performance


design-build team has adopted a solution-oriented approach focused on cooperation, innovation and “real- time” problem-solving, all designed to keep the Project continually moving forward. Tat team includes contractor Regional Connector Constructors JV (a joint venture of Skanska USA Civil and Traylor Bros Inc.), designer Mott MacDonald, owner Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency (Metro) and dozens of other


design and construction partners and Project stakeholders.


Teamwork Helps Overcome Challenges


Skanksa/Traylor JV Project


Executive Daniel Schiraldi has been part of the team from the outset, participating in the Project pursuit and estimating prior to Project award and groundbreaking in 2014. He credits teamwork as a key factor in overcoming an array of challenges, not the least of which is the Project’s location in urban, heavily congested downtown Los Angeles. Large-scale tunneling and


construction operations have taken place adjacent to and beneath fully operating businesses, including the Los


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