I attended the public hearing Monday night in Beverly Hills for the Westside Subway Extension’s draft environmental impact statetment/report. It was pretty clear that among the more than 200 people who attended, the vast majority opposed a subway station from being built at Constellation and Avenue of the Stars in [continue reading]
Below is the schedule for the final two public hearings on the subway’s draft environmental impact statement/report, or DEIR/S for the acronym-minded reader. As you might expect, the subject of tunneling under private properties will be discussed at tonight’s hearing in Beverly Hills, which is being live-streamed beginning at 6 [continue reading]
Let’s start with this fun fact: When the Westside Subway Extension is built, it will take 25 minutes to travel from Los Angeles Union Station to the Westwood/UCLA station — 13 minutes on the existing Purple Line to Wilshire and Western and a little more than 12 minutes on the [continue reading]
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the library’s blog. Beverly Hills City Council discusses subway tunneling under homes (The Patch) This brief video gives you a taste of the discussion by [continue reading]
We asked readers a week ago what they thought about the prospect of a station at Crenshaw & Wishire on the Westside Subway Extension and above is the response we received as of 10:20 Monday morning. More than 30 comments were left on the Polldaddy page and they cover the [continue reading]
