Crenshaw Line
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16 developments sprouting along the Crenshaw Line, mapped
Development is simmering along the rail line.
LA’s new light rail line won’t open until 2021
Here’s what to know about the Crenshaw/LAX Line, which will eventually travel between South LA and the South Bay.
As South LA changes, Destination Crenshaw is ‘absolutely necessary’
The open-air museum will celebrate black Los Angeles amid "so many concerns about gentrification," says City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson.
Mixed-use development planned near Crenshaw Line stop at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
The five-story building would hold 69 apartments—six of them affordable.
City looking for ideas to redevelop two Leimert Park parking lots
The lots are about a block from a Crenshaw Line station slated to open next year.
Metro awards $15M to Destination Crenshaw
The open-air museum of public art, parks, and murals will celebrate black Los Angeles along the Crenshaw/LAX light rail line.
LA renames Crenshaw/Slauson intersection for Nipsey Hussle
Hussle "spent his resources and his life giving back to the community."
Metro projects huge ridership for West Hollywood train
A northern extension of the Crenshaw Line could draw more riders than Boston’s Green Line—but will it take three decades to build?
Green Line partially closing for two weeks for Crenshaw/LAX Line upgrades
The two lines will link up once the Crenshaw Line opens
Metro’s Crenshaw Line to LAX delayed until 2020
The light rail route was scheduled to open next year.
Fly through the Metro station connecting LAX to light rail
Fresh renderings show where rail and the people mover will meet.
Mayor says gas tax repeal would delay train service to LAX
If voters repeal the gas tax in November, it would delay other big projects too.
Rail to West Hollywood inching closer to reality
Local officials want to speed up the project.
Construction on Metro’s Crenshaw/LAX Line months behind schedule
Will the train’s fall 2019 opening be delayed?
Inglewood working on tram to link Crenshaw Line, NFL stadium
It would also connect the Forum and a proposed Clippers arena.
Will the Crenshaw Line strand South Bay riders?
Metro’s new light rail route may not connect to the Green Line as smoothly as some riders hoped.
West Hollywood still pushing hard to get light rail ASAP
One City Councilmember suggests revenue from a marijuana tax could pay for the project.
Leimert Park housing complex planned near Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
The project would replace a Crenshaw Boulevard auto shop with 111 units of housing.
Watch a colorful glass mosaic for the Crenshaw Line come together
Here’s a sneak a peek at a new mosaic that will adorn the Martin Luther King Jr. station.
How will booming Inglewood handle development around its new train stations?
It’s embracing dense, mixed-use housing and is calling for an arts hub around one of the Crenshaw Line stops.
See the pair of mixed-users that would flank Crenshaw next to the Expo Line
Metro and LA County would team up with developer Watt Companies to bring almost 500 apartments to a very transit-friendly site.
Photos: See how the Crenshaw Line’s Inglewood Station is shaping up
Come 2019, you’ll be able to hop on the train here.
Along the Crenshaw Line, trepidation and excitement
The new light rail line will open in 2019, changing communities from Leimert Park to Inglewood—for better or worse.
The 7 transit projects that could transform LA
From subway lines to high-speed rail, these new transit projects could reshape communities—and the entire region.
Metro unearths prehistoric sloth fossil under Crenshaw Boulevard
Workers digging for the upcoming Crenshaw Line made the discovery. The ancient sloth would have weighed some 1,500 pounds and roamed the land that became LA thousands of years ago.
Crenshaw Line’s above-ground sections are coming along nicely
There’s been a lot of focus on the underground tunnels for the project, but it’s exciting to see the line’s bridges are taking shape, too.
Watch Metro’s huge Harriet drill complete pair of Crenshaw Line tunnels
The drilling operation was an extraordinary undertaking. The 950-ton, 21-foot tall machine drilled for 11 months to build two tunnels for LA’s new light rail line.
Take a flyover tour of the Crenshaw/LAX light rail
A new flyover video offers an easy way to visualize where the future light rail line will go and how it will fit into the neighborhoods it traverses when it opens in 2019.
County may team up with Metro to spur development along Crenshaw/LAX Line
The county is considering asking private developers for proposals at three project sites near two stations—Expo/Crenshaw and Fairview Heights.
Tunnel boring machine finishes first Crenshaw/LAX tunnel
Harriet, the tunnel boring machine drilling away at the future Crenshaw/LAX line, completed her journey through Leimert Park today and Metro has released some striking—and kind of terrifying—photos of the event.
Light rail extension to WeHo might happen much sooner than 2041
WeHo is putting pressure on Metro about possible route options for a light rail extension. The project, which was initially projected to start construction in 2041, would be funded in part with revenue from Measure M, if it passes in November.
Gigantic drill burrowing under Crenshaw reaches its first milestone in this satisfying video
Harriet the Tunnel Boring Machine breaks through to the future Martin Luther King Jr. light rail station at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza shopping center. Now it moves south to Leimart Park, the second stop on the future Crenshaw line.
Huge machine tunneling away at new Crenshaw Line
Metro's tunnel-boring machine, nicknamed Harriet, is well on her way to Leimert Park after beginning work in April. A new video shows a time-lapse of the tunneler disappearing below Crenshaw Boulevard.
Crenshaw/LAX Line is Halfway Finished
Metro threw a party in Leimert Park Saturday to celebrate progress on the much-anticipated new rail line that will finally connect LAX to the rest of the area's growing transit network. It's one of a few parties Metro has been throwing lately.
Meet the Crenshaw Line's Huge Tunnel-Boring Machine
Super-cool video of Harriet, the machine that will dig a tunnel from Crenshaw to Leimert Park.
Ancient Bison Bone Unearthed Under Leimert Park
A prehistoric fossil dating from LA's savanna days has been found at the site of a future Crenshaw Line station.