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Subway To Sea Drilling/Meetings In WeHo
Monday, July 27, 2009 – By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood
West Hollywood, California (Monday, July 27, 2009) - As part of the environmental review analysis, Metro is continuing their ongoing and weekly effort to study conditions below the surface for the possibility of a subway to the Westside.
Click here for more information about the Subway To The Sea.
Last week, the majority of the light drilling took place in West Hollywood overnight.
Spots included San Vicente/Melrose, Santa Monica/Ogden, Santa Monica/Fairfax and Santa Monica/Sweetzer.
Crews were seen in Los Angeles along Wilshire Blvd during the day: Wilshire/La Jolla (Tues-Thur) and Wilshire/Crescent Heights (Wed-Fri).
Traffic, noise and vibration impacts will be minimal.
As exploratory drilling for the possibility of a subway to the Westside continues to take place on city streets, Metro is gearing up for another set of community meetings for updates on the project (meeting info is below).
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Last Spring, public meetings gathered input on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Report (DEIS/R) process that is currently underway.
Next month, they will present a summary of what was heard at those meetings, provide updates to possible route alternatives and discuss the subway construction process if the project goes forward.
Where does the project stand today?
Back in January, the Metro Board approved two possible projects, technically "build alternatives," for further environmental review and preliminary engineering, which is currently underway.
Those two build alternatives are extending the Purple Line down Wilshire Blvd. westward and an alternative that includes the aforementioned Purple Line extension plus a Santa Monica Blvd. spur from the Hollywood/Highland Metro Red Line station that would meet up with the Purple Line on the Westside.
Click here for more information about the West Hollywood Spur of the Subway To The Sea.
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By law, Metro also has to study a "no build" alternative and a “Transportation Systems Management” alternative--basically, beefing up the current fleet, schedules and routes.
Once this process is over, the Metro Board will vote on their preferred alternative (many in the public hope for the Wilshire/Santa Monica one).
Then Metro will move on to a final environmental review, final engineering and construction.
Public Meetings
All meetings are from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and are easily accessible by public transit. Parking is also available at all the locations.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 | Wilshire United Methodist Church | 4350 Wilshire Boulevard | Los Angeles | Spanish & Korean translations will be provided at this meeting
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 | Plummer Park | 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard | West Hollywood | Russian translation will be provided at this meeting.
Thursday, August 6, 2009 | Santa Monica Public Library | Multi-Purpose Room | 601 Santa Monica Blvd. | Santa Monica | Spanish translation will be provided at this meeting.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | Beverly Hills Public Library | Auditorium | 444 N. Rexford Drive | Beverly Hills | Spanish translation will be provided at this meeting
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 | Westwood Presbyterian Church | 10822 Wilshire Blvd. | Los Angeles | Spanish translation will be provided at this meeting
1 comment:
I am so glad about this project.
I am very hopeful that Alternative 11 will be chosen.
We need BOTH of these lines.
This project has five phases:
Phase 1) Extending Purple Line from Western/Wilshire to Fairfax/Wilshire;
Phase 2) Extending Purple Line to Century City;
Phase 3) Extending Purple Line to Westwood/Wilshire;
Phase 4) Connecting Hollywood/Highland to Purple Line via Santa Monica Blvd. and the Beverly Center (a.k.a. the "Pink Line");
Phase 5) Extending Purple/Pink Line to Santa Monica Beach.
Measure R, which passed last November, and thank God for that, will fund Phases 1-3.
Please write your Congressmember and your Senators to help bring Federal infrastructure funds to speed up construction of Phases one through three and build Phases 4 and 5 as well.
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