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Court Rules In Metro’s Favor In Beverly Hills Subway Lawsuit Appeal
In a ruling filed yesterday, an appeals court denied Beverly Hills' attempt to block Metro from tunneling under their city to extend the Purple Line subway. The city of Beverly Hills and the Beverly Hills Unified School District (BHUSD) challenged Metro's environmental studies as being inadequate. In 2014, Beverly Hills lost in the initial round of the lawsuit. This week Beverly Hills lost in their efforts to overturn the earlier ruling. The appeal court's verdict takes Metro a few steps closer to moving full speed ahead with subway construction.
October 23, 2015
Metro Studying Arts District Red/Purple Line Subway Extension
Metro's outgoing CEO Art Leahy spoke enthusiastically at last week's Metro board Planning and Programming Committee about potentially extending the Red and Purple Line subways into the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. The new station or stations would take advantage of existing tracks in Metro's Heavy Rail Maintenance Yard, which extends southeast of Union Station, sandwiched between the Arts District and the Los Angeles River, mostly between First and Fourth streets, but extending all the way from the 101 Freeway to below Sixth Street.
March 26, 2015
President Obama’s Proposed FY15-16 Budget: $330M for L.A. Subways
U.S. President Barack Obama released his administration's proposed FY 2015-16 budget which includes $330 million in New Starts funding planned for subways in Los Angeles:
February 2, 2015
Metro Breaks Ground on Purple Line Subway Extension
This morning Metro broke ground on its fifth simultaneous rail construction project: the Purple Line Extension. The new phase will extend the subway from downtown to La Cienega Boulevard, with two additional future phases planned to extend the line to Century City and Westwood.
November 7, 2014
A Plea to Beverly Hills: Give Up the Anti-Subway PR Campaign
Today is a great day for L.A. County. After decades of stalling, Metro is finally breaking ground on the Westside Subway extension from Wilshire/Western to Westwood.
November 7, 2014
Full Federal Funding To Extend Purple Line Subway West 4 Miles To La Cienega
This morning in Washington DC, federal and Los Angeles officials joined together to announce full funding for the initial phase extending Metro's Purple Line Subway. This funding had been hinted at earlier, but today it's a done deal. Barring any kind of governmental shutdown.
May 21, 2014
Kuehl: “I don’t support anything that would delay the roll-out of the Purple Line”
It's not supposed to be this way.
May 20, 2014
Kuehl Earns Courier Endorsement for Opposing Subway Route, Shriver and Duran Respond (Update: Kuehl Touts Transit Bonafides, Says She Will Not Hold Up Subway)
(Update: This is a first. The Courier didn't get one thing wrong in its editorial, it got two things wrong.
May 16, 2014
Metro Scores $200 Million in Obama’s Proposed Budget
There is much celebrating going on by Metro and transit expansion advocates around the region. In President Barack Obama's proposed budget for next year, a cool $200 million is set aside for Los Angeles under the "new starts" program. $100 million of that is set to go towards the Regional Connector and the other $100 million to the Westside Subway extension.
March 4, 2014
Feds Announce Regional Connector Funding, Hint at Purple Line Funding
This morning, local elected officials and federal administrators joined together to announce that Metro's Regional Connector is now fully funded. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is granting $670 million in New Starts funding to the Regional Connector, and also extending a low-interest TIFIA (Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act) loan of $160 million.
February 20, 2014