Los Angeles : More Money for Metro Rail
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Plans to extend the Metro Rail system to the Mid-City and Hollywood areas received a boost with the recent vote by the appropriations subcommittee of the U.S. Senate to earmark $110 million for new work on the Los Angeles subway’s Red Line project.
The House earlier approved a similar plan calling for $50 million to be used to complete construction already under way on the line running west from downtown along Wilshire Boulevard.
Plans call for the line to turn north at the corner of Wilshire and Vermont Avenue, then west on Hollywood Boulevard to Vine Street. A spur would extend west to the corner of Wilshire and Western Avenue.
Allocations of $20 million each would then be used to start work on the Mid-City, North Hollywood and East Los Angeles extensions of the Red Line.
Northbound trains would stop at Highland Avenue before going on to Universal City and North Hollywood.
Mid-City service would include a stop at the corner of Olympic Boulevard and Crenshaw Avenue and another near the corner of Pico Boulevard and La Brea Avenue.
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