Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Beverly Hills

Metro Approves Environmental Documents for Subway to La Cienega

By Damien Newton | Apr 26, 2012 | 3 Comments

The first of several major issue scheduled to be addressed by the Metro Board of Directors was the approval of the environmental documents for the Westside Subway. After the Beverly Hills City Council formerly requested a hearing earlier this week, Metro staff recommended that the Board split approval for the Subway into two parts so that part […]

New Video: Metro Will Blow Up Beverly Hills High School

By Damien Newton | Apr 26, 2012 | 48 Comments

As debate continues at Metro headquarters over the Westside Subway, the Parent-Teacher Association of the Beverly Hills High School released the above video on YouTube. The video graphically illustrates their concerns. Sometimes a video is so clear that commentary from Streetsblog writers is not necessary.

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 […]

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 […]

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