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ChineseCommunity Meeting: Westside Extension
[tags]west hollywood, metro, los angeles, westside, community meeting[/tags]
The City of West Hollywood is sponsoring a community meeting to discuss the Westside Extension Transit Corridor Study which aims to look at how to improve mobility on the Westside. Issues to be discussed include:
- Does transit need to be improved on the Westside?
- Do you prefer subway, light rail, more buses, or another mode?
- Do you like a Wilshire or a Santa Monica Boulevard alignment better?
- Do you want a station in your neighborhood?
- What is important to you in evaluating these alternatives?
The meeting will take place on Monday October 29, 2007 from 6pm to 8pm at Plummer Park, 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard.
Comments about the study may be received at the community meeting, or by filling out the comment form on the project website, leaving a message on the information line (213.922.6934) or by wrting Mr. David Mieger, AICP, Project Manager and Deputy Executive Office, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (METRO), One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Comments must be received by November 1, 2007.
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Our Miracle Mile Wilshire corridor meeting ended up being the same day/time as this meeting. But these things happen. If anyone goes to the West Hollywood event I’d be curious to see a report on what happened…
http://www.socata.net/gm/archives/00000058.shtml
In this week’s CityBeat, Jody Litvak is interviewed.
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=6383&IssueNum=229
She states the following:
We need both the Purple Line extended to Santa Monica through Century City and the Red Line and Purple Lines connected via Santa Monica Blvd.
She also states the following:
One option for the Santa Monica Blvd. connector could have it head south at La Cienega to create a north south line connecting the Exop, Red and Purple Lines. It seems rather obvious that the Purple and Expo lines should end together in Santa Monica in a Coney Island like terminal near the pier and 3rd Street Promenade. But sometimes the obvious is missed.
Everyone who wants West Hollywood and/or Santa Monica Blvd. included in the rail system in some capacity should go to tonight’s forum and make themselves heard. If you can’t attend, you can still send in your comments through Wednesday.
Dan,
Good call on the Fairfax idea, and the connection at the end of the purple and expo lines. Lets not forget that Fairfax was originally planned as the route for the 1990s-era red line to the valley as it was the busiest north-south artery between Wilshire and Hollywood, not sure if thats still true but it would still make a good route. The Santa Monica alternative would cover Weho a bit better and be closer to the pacific design center, but part of it would cover a less heavily populated section of Beverly Hills. This MTA proposal map shows a Santa Monica alignment which would have no stations between San Vicente and Beverly dr. (2 miles). What a waste!
As for the end of the lines in Santa Monica, they should either meet up or have some sort of underground walkway between them.
I missed the meeting but I will be sending metro a letter for sure.
I prefer the connector going from Hollywood/Highland to:
Santa Monica / La Brea
Santa Monica / Faifax
Santa Monica / La Cienega
Santa Monica / San Vicente
San Vicente / Beverly
La Cienega / 3rd St.
La Cienega / Wilshire
La Cienega / Pico
La Cienega / Venice
La Cienega / Expo Line station.
It could be extended northbound to the Burbank Airport and southbound to LAX.
If it’s a choice between going to the Grove on Faifax or Beverly Center / Pacific Design Center / Cedar-Sinai, I’d that the latter.
Either north/south connector that unites the Red, Purple and Expo lines through West Hollywood is a good idea in my book.
The pure Santa Monica Blvd. line does have merit in this way. The gentleman from the MTA who spoke at the Santa Monica MTA public meeting stated that it is an important corridor not just for the boulevard itself, but as a way of getting from the Valley to the Westside. The Red Line enables people to go from the Cahuenga Pass southeast to downtown, but there are many people who commute to the westside to work and and being able to go to WeHo, Beverly Hills, Century City, Westwood, West LA and Santa Monica via one seat ride from the valley would bring a great alternative for so many people plodding along the Sepulveda Pass nightmare and snaking through the various canyon roads.
San Vicente
Here’s my preferred route:
Hollywood/Highland
Fairfax / Sunset
This would put a station closer to the Sunset strip and make a potential north-south line on La Brea more effective. The metro map I linked to earlier shows a station here as part of the Santa Monica line. However the Santa Monica/ La Brea option is not bad either.
Fairfax / Santa Monica
Fairfax / Melrose
Fairfax / Beverly
-I still like Fairfax better, at least for this part. Melrose station could be optional. While leaving out 3rd / Fairfax makes the Grove a bit farther, I prefer Beverly to 3rd as an east west option since a La Cienega / Beverly station would be next to the Bev center and .5 miles from the pacific design center as well. Also, 3rd st runs slightly northwest-southeast, making things difficult for a southward line trying to move west.
La Cienega / Beverly
La Cienega / Wilshire
La Cienega / Pico
La Cienega / Venice
Washington / National (Expo Line)
Busier than La Cienega / Jefferson (Expo), same distance, and allows the possibility of a Venice extension.
Although a Santa Monica line would be a more direct route to Noho, This one would still be a vast improvement over the current situation. Perhaps some of the trains could be routed from the Westside to Noho via this alignment so people wouldnt have to transfer. Of course all this is assuming the Purple Line gets built.
That’s certainly an interesting proposal and I hope you submitted it to the MTA.
Going from Fairfax to La Cienega on Beverly is close enough to the Grove and close enough to Beverly Center and Cedar Sinai to be useful and connects the Purple and Expo lines into the system.
I may prefer the Santa Monica Blvd. model, but your suggestioin certainly has merit and it’s one I haven’t seen yet. The most necessary West Hollywood stops are Fairfax/SantaMonica and LaCienega/SantaMonica and I’m glad you included at least one.