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First ; A Heavy Rail Line could have been built from LAX to Van Nuys and maybe to Burbank Airport for the same money it is costing to build the 405 carpool soon to become toll lanes.

Second; Have you driven Wilshire between the 405 and the ocean at Santa Monica? It is extremely dense with high-rise buildings. Purple line riders are more likely want a Wilshire destination than a trip on the Expo Line down Colorado to 4th St. They will want to transfer to the Wilshire bus not the Expo Line,

@guest #15: Wow, dense much? Maybe a Wilshire subway will help WILSHIRE riders. May be hard for you to understand, but many cities have more than one subway line, and most of them handle thousands and thousands of riders every day. You can have tons of riders on Expo AND along Wilshire, just like you have tons of cars on the 405 AND the 101.

We need this park in WILSHIRE CENTER!

To anyone who participated in the CRA/LA outreach for parks money from the state- apparently the Wilshire/Hobart site was the only site dropped from the list in the committee meeting this week, and it happened last minute. If you were there, or support a park at Wilshire and Hobart, please call Councilman Wesson’s office at (323) 733-8233 or email councilmember.wesson@lacity.org and let them know you’d like to know why the site was dropped.

@guest #5: No, a monorail wouldn’t "already be done." A monorail on Wilshire would actually be ILLEGAL. http://metroprimaryresources.info/light-rail-on-wilshire-why-that-would-be-illegal/314/
You monorail boosters keep popping up, only to be knocked down every time. Honestly, it’s like Wack-A-Mole with you people.
Give it a rest, it’s NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.

@Corporatelife20: How is "throwing shade to an area that is 260 square miles" kinda idiotic? Size has nothing to do with anything.

But, to answer you’re question: I lived in the Valley when I was a young kid, spending my first 9 years living in Sylmar. I now choose Long Beach as my home, and love it. I’ve lived in the Valley, OC, West LA and mid-Wilshire. Every area has its own pluses and minuses (OC and the Valley heavy on the minus side) and living in Long Beach is narrowly beats out my time in mid-wilshire. And I truly disliked living in West LA. It felt like living on the far end of a peninsula, and not in the good way.

Commenter 29, the map (http://www.laalmanac.com/LA/lamap2.htm) you pointed to is interesting, but bizarre in its own right.

For instance, the fabled "Mid-City West" neighborhood… WTF? And putting Park La Brea and The Grove in "Mid-Wilshire" seems equally confusing. Also, as far as I’m concerned, "Wilshire Center" and "Koreatown" are one and the same, and really, Mid-Wilshire, too.

If pressed, I’d put Hancock Park and Hollywood as mirror images of each other — Hancock Park being everything between Wilton and La Brea, Melrose and Olympic, and Hollywood being everything between Wilton and La Brea north of Melrose. I’d place "Miracle Mile" in that vague area between La Brea and La Cienega (recognizing that La Cienega is a little far to stretch Miracle Mile, but also noting the sign across from the Beverly Connection welcoming you to the "Miracle Mile District") and Melrose and Olympic, and then…

this is really confusing.

I remember all of those scenes. I grew up near Wilshire. Wilshire was the route for going downtown. My parents would take me to the la brea tar pits to ride my bike. I remember also the old promenade. It was much quieter then. L.A. was awesome in the 70’s – 80’s. The Christmas decorations around the city was cool too. Almost every main street had decorations. Snowflakes on Wilshire, those big crazy chandelier christmas lights on Hollywood Blvd, that made you think the whole things was going to fall on the cars as they drove under (as seen in the movie FOXES) and the best one was Santa Claus and his reindeers hovering above Wilshire at little Santa Monica blvd. in Beverly HIlls. Christmas was truly magical in the city. We didn’t have snow but we had Tons of christmas lights and street decorations.

@jumpincadilacs: "Frankly, what I don’t understand is why we are building two subway lines into Santa Monica that will be 3 blocks apart?"

The Expo Line and the Purple Line are 3 blocks apart in Santa Monica, but will be 3 miles apart elsewhere and serve entirely different communities. One serves a dense corridor along Wilshire and the other serves a less dense but important transit dependent area. Plus there’s no guarantee that the Wilshire Subway will actually go to the ocean, but stop in Westwood instead. Plus the Wilshire Subway may not open for a decade, if at all.

But if you do have a problem with the Wilshire Subway, now is the time to make your voice heard, as the environmental review is still happening. Don’t do it after the Final EIR has been approved though. You’ll get nowhere.

@Dan W.: I imagine UCLA would make the subway station a stop on their shuttles that circle around Westwood. They could even have a dedicated shuttle line to and from just the station. It’s not such a big deal.

Locating a station right at the corner of Wilshire and Westwood would interfere with the underground parking garages of existing buildings or require displacement of a tenant. Being on the fringe of Westwood Village seems a much easier place to build and more cost-effective to purchase. Keep in mind that many of these proposed locations have sites Metro can easily build on – Johnie’s at Wilshire and Fairfax will go, the Metro Customer Service station at Wilshire and La Brea will be removed, etc. – whereas Wilshire and Westwood does not.

@Home Brew: Yes, it’s far worse than La Brea/Wilshire. Why? Because there are long stretches of Wilshire in the Park Mile area that are vacant, weed-filled lots. There are strip malls that are tattered and worn out. And certainly because the road in that area is a bombed-out war zone.

Yes, the neighborhood is very pleasant, once you move away from Wilshire, but not many people do that, nor should they, and, quite frankly, Wilshire Blvd is supposed to be the "jewel" of Los Angeles, so it shouldn’t look like you made a wrong left turn somewhere and are in Detroit.