Community Relations, Purple Line Extension
Metro invites you to celebrate the halfway construction completion milestone for Section 1 of the Purple Line Extension! ‘Halfway to La Cienega’ is a free community event, open to the [continue reading]
A panel of judges made up of local community leaders helped select the tunnel boring machine (TBM) art and contest naming finalists last week from 175-plus entries from across Los Angeles [continue reading]
The Purple Line Extension Transit Project is adding two more tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to its TBM family! The new additions will join Elsie and Soyeon, the TBMs digging Section [continue reading]
Above is some fresh video of excavation work in the future Wilshire/Fairfax Station on the first section of the Purple Line Extension that runs for 3.9 miles between Wilshire/Western and [continue reading]
UPDATE, September 18 – This closure is expected to begin Friday, September 21, 2018. UPDATE, July 25 – This closure has been postponed. During excavation and relocation of underground utilities, [continue reading]
Westsiders will get their first taste of Purple Line Extension construction next week when Metro advance utility relocation (AUR) contractors begin setting up their staging area in the Caltrans yard at the intersection of [continue reading]
Metro is working to connect the Purple Line Extension to the existing Purple Line at Wilshire/Western Station. To expedite decking and to support construction activities in this very dense and [continue reading]
With the turning of the calendar, we thought it would be a good time to provide an update on one of our key transit projects: the nine-mile extension of the [continue reading]
Metro is inviting students from kindergarten through 12th grade to participate in an art and naming contest for the two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) that will dig the twin subway tunnels to connect three underground stations of Section 1 of the Purple Line Extension. The contest is divided into two [continue reading]
Until now, most of the construction activities for the future Purple Line Extension station at Wilshire and La Cienega boulevards have been either behind K-rail or within the La Cienega [continue reading]
