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ChineseGrowth spurt for prepubescent Purple Line?
[tags]los angeles, mta, red line, purple line[/tags]
Go west, young subway, and grow up with the county.
Credit: TravelingMan via Flickr (Creative Commons license)
It was July 13, 1996 when the then-Metro Red Line was extended as far west as it could legally go on Wilshire Boulevard. Click on the date for a very special birthday address to the much-hated-yet-increasingly-loved subway.
Eleven years later, almost to the day of the Koreatown extension, the Los Angeles Times Bottleneck Blog reports that the U.S. Senate has approved in committee a bill to overturn a law that prohibited tunneling through the Miracle Mile. It would still have to go before the full senate and a conference committee to reconcile the Senate and House versions of the bill. And even when all that is out of the way, it still must go through the near-Sisyphean tasks of scopings, studies, engineering, design and the billions of dollars needed just to get it to Fairfax Avenue.
Meanwhile, subway supporters are encouraged to go Tuesday, July 17, to the Beverly Hills Library, 444 N. Rexford Drive, between 6 and 8 p.m. The Southern California Transit Advocates hosts the second of a series of meetings to inform residents and future riders on the steps involved from making the dream come true. For more information, visit Socata at the link above or call (213) 388-2364.
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Fantastic! I want to go to the meeting! Too bad I’ll have to take the dreaded b-u-s to the library instead of my beloved purple line. But hey, that’s something I can bring up at the meeting: extend the purple line so that I don’t have to ride a smelly bus full of smelly people (myself included) to the Beverly Hills Library!
GO PURPLE LINE GO!
It’s our little engine that could.
The next time you’re discouraged about public transportation in L.A., think back 10 years. 1997, with the Hollywood Sinkhole and “60 Minutes” beseiging Franklin White and the likes of James Moore demanding that the the Red Line tracks be ripped out and the tunnels converted to busways. Look how far we’ve come since that Silly Season. Even with funding uncertainties, wouldn’t it be nice if sometime soon the MTA set a target date for the next Purple Line Extension? Wilshire & Fairfax by 2017!