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As Metro Wraps Up Public Outreach on Westside Subway, Beverly Hills Readies for a Fight
Last week, battle lines were drawn between the City of Beverly Hills, the Beverly Hills Unified School District and Metro over the location and routing of the Westside Subway. While Metro held a series of public meetings to show the results of their environmental studies, the last of the three hearings turned into a sort of rally against the project in Beverly Hills. For those scoring at home, Streetsblog has the highlights from last week.
April 2, 2012
Metro Unveils Final Environmental Documents for Westside Subway
"This is a project Los Angeles has been talking about for fifty years," Jody Litvak, Metro.
March 19, 2012
Start the Countdown to a Court Date. Trenching at Beverly Hills High School Reaches the End
During yesterday's Metro Board Meeting, CEO Art Leahy reported that the Beverly Hills Unified School District would not allow Metro's experts to take advantage of the ongoing trenching studies going on at Beverly Hills High School, which are scheduled to end this weekend, without paying a cool $500,000 to the School District. The trenching process is part of a study being conducted on behalf of the school district to respond to an earlier geotechnical study by a team of experts paid for by Metro that found that the safest place to run the Westside Subway was under a portion of the Beverly Hills High School Property.
February 24, 2012
President’s Budget: $50 Million for Westside Subway, $31 Million for Regional Connector
While Metro has a dozen transit projects under construction or in the works, two have always stood out for the attention they attract. The Westside Subway has always been the jewel of the transit agency's plans, capturing the imagination of the transit starved city. But, it was the Regional Connector, the Downtown light rail project that will unite them all that has been viewed by many as the most important of these projects.
February 13, 2012
Bev. Hills Experts Cast Doubt on Metro Report
(Note, the Beverly Hills Courier points out that they had the story first on Thursday evening despite my call that Patch broke the news. You can read their coverage, here. - DN)
February 6, 2012
The Trenching, and the Spin, Go on in Beverly Hills
Local news outlets in Beverly Hills reported last week that with 80% of the trenching completed on the Beverly Hills Campus that thus far the trenching has found no active faults anywhere on the Beverly Hills campus. The remaining trenching will be completed on the northern part of campus along Heath Avenue.
January 23, 2012
Breaking News: Metro Can’t Complete Trenching Studies in One Weekend
(Update: Metro was actually on campus for seven different days doing studies in 2011: 2/19, 2/26, 2/17, 3/5, 3/6, 3/12, and 3/13. On some of the days, poor weather prevented them from getting good samples, but we should note they were there longer than one weekend.)
January 9, 2012
Rest In Peace: Santa Monica Blvd. Subway Station
(Steve Hymon reviews the geology and presentation from a scientific standpoint at The Source. I'm considering this an unofficial companion piece looking at how today's presentation changes the politics. Angelenos Against Gridlock were also updating their website throughout the presentation. - DN)
October 19, 2011
Brown’s AEG Bill Could Help Westside Subway Avoid Lawsuit Delays
I know I promised that we weren't going to cover the fight over the Westside Subway routing debate until there was actual news, but the Subway won a huge victory earlier this week, and almost nobody noticed.
September 29, 2011