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[blackcat23]

http://thesource.metro.net/2013/05/2...nshawlax-line/

Leimert Park Station and Hindry Station are now official. Metro has agreed to cover the remaining $90 million for Leimert Park using uncommitted funds in the 2014 budget.

Glad this issue is finally over with. Just have to deal with the Crenshaw Subway Coalition's lawsuit now.

[Westsidelife]

Originally Posted by blackcat23

There are some gaps in employment/population density along the route, but overall I agree: Sepulveda can sustain a heavy rail. I don't see it running any further south than LAX, though. South Bay will get it's Green Line extension (eventually) and perhaps a link north to Santa Monica via a Lincoln Blvd. extension at some point down the line.

The real question is how to get sufficient funding for heavy rail.

Well, I know that. You would think Sepulveda would connect with the Green Line to create greater connectivity and boost ridership.

[LAofAnaheim]

Originally Posted by blackcat23

I've read that a conversion to light rail won't happen until ridership is approaching 50,000 (like the Wilshire bus routes). That would require the city of LA adjusting it's traffic signal priorities to allow higher frequency of service on the line.

There won't be a conversion to light rail until the Valley overturns its Robbins Bill. The Valley screwed itself, not Metro, by only legally allowing a subway to be built and not light rail.

[LAofAnaheim]

Based on ridership in the Cahuenga Pass, there is a rail transit demand in the Sepulveda Pass. This needs to be a heavy rail line connecting the Orange Line, the Sherman Oaks Galleria, north end of UCLA, Wilshire, Expo Line, maybe 1 or 2 neighborhood stations and then ending at the new South Bay "Union Station" - Century/Aviation Station. That would be an amazing rail line.

[blackcat23]

Originally Posted by LAofAnaheim

There won't be a conversion to light rail until the Valley overturns its Robbins Bill. The Valley screwed itself, not Metro, by only legally allowing a subway to be built and not light rail.

Well, there's that too lol.

Just meant that Metro isn't even pursuing a conversion/overturn of the Robbins Bill until ridership reaches that point.

[202_Cyclist]

MTA raises plane-train ante for Bob Hope Airport



By Daniel Siegal
May 23, 2013

"The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted Thursday to pony up $1.7 million to reach the local match for a decades-old $4.3 million federal grant that will be used to enhance Bob Hope Airport's efforts to foster a "plane-to-train connection" to local transit.

The money will help accelerate construction of a Metrolink station along the Antelope Valley line, among other improvement projects, airport officials said.

The funds will come from Measure R, a half-cent sales tax that was approved by county voters in 2008 to pay for transportation projects..."

http://www.burbankleader.com/news/tn...,2419029.story