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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
Better Bike Beverly Hills in the Los Angeles Times
(The following letter by Mark Elliott, Streetsblog famous for his work with Better Bike Beverly Hills, appeared in today's Los Angeles Times. It appears here with the author's permission.-DN)
June 4, 2012
Beverly Hills Unified School District Files CEQA Suit Against Westside Subway
(Editor's note: A full copy of the legal petition can be found here.)
May 30, 2012
Fearless Prediction: Metro Will Approve the Westside Subway Route under Beverly Hills High School
Update at 1 p.m.: As predicted, the Metro Board has voted 7-to-2 to approve the Constellation Station for the Westside Subway with a routing under Beverly Hills High School. More details at The Source.
May 24, 2012
New Video: Hill Folk Want to Stay Stuck in 1959
In advance of tomorrow's hearing at Metro headquarters over the Westside Subway, a group called L.A. on the Move released the above video on YouTube. The video graphically illustrates their concerns. Sometimes a video is so clear that commentary from Streetsblog writers is not necessary.
May 16, 2012