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Originally it was scoped as a light rail line from Van Nuys/Oxnard to Wilshire Western. They have now added 5 miles of track and turned it into heavy rail. Likely a cost overrun wont be that high.

But even so, the line definitely isnt worth 20 billion, it isnt worth 13.5 billion. It might be better to just pull the plug now.

You can’t have only busy lines.

A busy line in LA is usually a subway line like the Gold, Expo, Blue or the buses that run on Wilshire, Santa Monica, Vermont, Western.

The closest subway lines to my living and working places are 20 minutes of walk away.
I have to use additional buses to get there. Those can run once an hour after 8pm.

Actually, most schedules tailor to commuters. It’s difficult to use public transportation for leisure.

I apologize in advance for using an annoying Millennial term to make my point so please forgive me.

Most NIMBYs these days are "woke NIMBYs" and understand it’s not appropriate to oppose every new housing project in the area. The majority are perfectly fine with buildings as tall as you want to make on the corridors. In fact three neighborhood councils in Mid-Wilshire, who in years past might have opposed new development, enthusiastically support a proposal for a new 42-story residential tower on Wilshire, right in their backyards.

The tables have turned and it’s pretty clear to everyone that YIMBYs are the new bad guys. I love a lot of things in life, chief among them the historic neighborhood I live in that almost got upzoned save for a change in the bus rule, and a crushing show of opposition from nearly every city in Southern California.

Upzoning is a big deal to me and my neighbors and the threats of it are starting to mess up LA’s transit plans. So you are right, I’m not very happy these days.

Cut and cover actually costs more than a tunnel boring machine in most cases. Certainly more when you have to maintain traffic on the 405 while doing it. Following the 405 would also mean the project has to follow a non direct path, adding miles to the route length and several minutes to the trip time.

What was done on Wilshire was not digging the entire subway in a month. The earth there is sandy and not ideal for tunneling. So small holes were drilled and a cement was injected into the dirt above where the tunnel was to be dug, firming it up. It then still took years to actually dig out and built a tunnel underneath Wilshire.

LA City’s Transit Neighborhood Plan (TNP) allows for the rezoning of property along mass-transit corridors like Colorado for residential and taller buildings, that is true.

However it DOES NOT extend into R1 neighborhoods, only SB 50 does that, up to a 1/4 mile from the bus. The main concern is over 6-story towers in the middle of a block of low-slung well-preserved homes. This is why no one wants the Crenshaw line extension in their neighborhood in Mid-City.

The greedy developers and their dumb YIMBY enablers, who have been pushing for SB 50, are tearing communities apart and hindering transportation plans that can reduce traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. it’s time to shut them down.

What Eagle Rock residents need to do is come up with a website like the Valley did for their proposed bus lane, to get the word out and focus the concerns, not on the bus lane per se, but on the real problem — SB 50. You can see in the link what a 6-story tower looks like next to a single-family home.

In the website ask readers to pressure the Metro board to take a position against SB 50. Ask them to vote out candidates who support SB 50.

https://savesfv.com

Why does it cost so much to build a subway?

They can close a stretch of Sepulveda, excavate ground, put concrete tubes and go further.
That’s what I see with the Purple Line. The subway builders close one block of the median on Wilshire, excavate and open it one month later.

Mid-City is very serial killer looking.

Light rail cars cannot be run on heavy rail infrastructure and subway trains depend upon a third rail, rather than suspended catenary lines. The ridership on the projected Sepulveda Pass line would be so much higher if some of the trains would transition to the Purple Line, run part or all of the way to Union Station. Not all of the trains on a Sep Pass Line would need to run to LAX. The ability of workers in DTLA or along the Wilshire Corridor to hop on a subway train and travel all the way to Sherman Oaks after leaving their workplace would be a great convenience.

You have to put the posts in the ground for monorail. You need land for that and that certainly doesn’t exist on Wilshire.

The Crenshaw Line could go north on La Brea and be above ground, but my guess is that it will get a lot of opposition.

I mean, it’s not like the valley or mid-city are especially cheap neighborhoods these days. It’s pricey all over LA.