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Los_Angeles La Cienega & Jefferson Metro Expo Line Station. (Wikiphoto, Credit: metro96)
Lasting Rail boom in and around L.A.
Published: Fri, 2015-01-02 16:44-
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Expo Line expected to open in 2016
Los Angeles shed its image as a car-dependent city with new rail lines being built across the metro area in a unique speed.
Along South L.A.’s Crenshaw Boulevard, construction crews are adding a light rail line. In Mid-Wilshire, prep work is underway on a subway to Westwood. And the Expo Line’s final phase, expected to open in 2016, will allow beachgoers to travel from downtown to Santa Monica.
Those projects and others represent L.A.’s biggest transit expansion in many epochs. They follow passage of 2008’s Measure R, when Los Angeles County voters agreed to fund transportation projects and highway upgrades via a half-cent sales tax.
Narrowly approved by voters, Measure R launched a flurry of construction projects and helped raise federal dollars to pay for new rail lines. The sales tax is expected to raise about $38 billion over 30 years.
Studies are being conducted on a rail or bus line along Van Nuys Boulevard. A new Sepulveda Pass transit line is in the early planning stages.
As Measure R funds expand transit options in other parts of the city, Valley leaders say they are growing increasingly impatient.
Source: Los Angeles County
Av Markku Björkman
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