Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Westside Subway

Bev. Hills Requests Hearing on Subway, Times Swats at Their Concerns

By Damien Newton | Apr 23, 2012 | 8 Comments

(Update, Dave Sotero, a Metro spokesperson responds to the story via email: The Beverly Hills hearing request was received. The Westside Subway Extension Project is still on the board’s agenda for Thursday. The Board of Directors will discuss the hearing request at that time.) It was a good news/bad news sort of weekend for Metro […]

No, Metro Is Not Really Considering an Aerial Station for Santa Monica/Century Park East

By Damien Newton | Apr 18, 2012 | 6 Comments

On Friday night, I received two emails as an online subscriber to the Beverly Hills Courier concerning the Westside Subway. The first was a screed by the paper’s publisher urging Beverly Hills City Council members to vote for a proposal for the city to officially rescind its support for the subway project altogether. The second […]

As Metro Wraps Up Public Outreach on Westside Subway, Beverly Hills Readies for a Fight

By Damien Newton | Apr 2, 2012 | 11 Comments

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 […]

Metro Unveils Final Environmental Documents for Westside Subway

By Damien Newton | Mar 19, 2012 | 6 Comments

“This is a project Los Angeles has been talking about for fifty years,” Jody Litvak, Metro. The first public meeting I ever went to in Los Angeles was held in a movie theatre on Wilshire Boulevard. The Southern California Transit Advocates were making a presentation on the “Subway to the Sea,” a fanciful plan to […]

Start the Countdown to a Court Date. Trenching at Beverly Hills High School Reaches the End

By Damien Newton | Feb 24, 2012 | 13 Comments

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 […]

President’s Budget: $50 Million for Westside Subway, $31 Million for Regional Connector

By Damien Newton | Feb 13, 2012 | 4 Comments

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 […]

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