BonAmi on October 16, 2008, at 03:54PM – #1

Great summary. It looks like I'll be attending a public meeting on Tuesday. Like it or not, one way or another, my quiet little neighborhood is looking at some heavy transportation construction.

Brian on October 16, 2008, at 09:10PM – #2

Thanks for the report, Eric. Glad to hear there was strong support for the underground alignment.

Any mention of projected construction dates?

Shawn on October 16, 2008, at 10:54PM – #4

They still have MOCA on the wrong street.

They don't have a construction timeline because they have no idea when or if they will have money. In the past they were saying by , but that will change if Measure R passes. And speaking of Measure R I've been hearing that the polling is very bad and that no one thinks that it will pass.

Purple Haze on October 17, 2008, at 12:32AM – #6

Let's hope that on November 3rd, that the mother of all traffic disasters strikes L.A. and everyone gets home four hours late and decide to vote yes the next day on the transit tax.

If only Britney and Paris would dance naked down the fast lane of the 101 to start the ball rolling. Or someone start the rumor that they're planning to jump off the top of the Bonaventure and end it all at 3 p.m. That would get half the population headed for Downtown all at once. Perfect.

Dtownla on October 17, 2008, at 09:34AM – #7

I can't visualize that Bunker Hill station. How would that work? Would the entrance be on upper Grand?

Desert Bruin on October 17, 2008, at 12:43PM – #8

There would likely be a station entrance at the southeast corner of Second and Hope, across from Redcat. That would be for the north end of the station. Entrances on both sides of Flower would feed into the south end of the station.

A subway solution would have twin tubes (single?) be bored beneath the Second Street Tunnel. Danger. Let's hope there's granite down there. If not, they'd best go DEEP.

Damien Goodmon on October 18, 2008, at 08:59AM – #9

Ladies and gentlemen please stop calling it the underground alternative. It's not. It still has an at-grade crossing at 1st street, where pedestrians 1st street traffic and 48-60 trains per hour during rush hour can be expected to all meet. There is still significant exposure to a system shut down with an accident in downtown.

Plus, what was glossed over in the Metro presentation is that east-west trains (Expo-Eastside Extension) would have no Little Tokyo stop. Only north-south trains (Blue-Pasadena Gold).

It is the "primarily underground alternative" and Metro needs to go back to the drawing board and create a completely underground alternative that has all trains stop at Little Tokyo and eliminates the 1st street at-grade crossing. It's not any more difficult than what they currently propose, just requires moving the Little Tokyo station to the southwest corner of 1st/Alameda and building the WYE underground instead of at the surface.

Jerard on October 18, 2008, at 12:03PM – #10

Damien,

Dolores briefly mentioned that they have not reached a consensus on a station or stations for the Little Tokyo-Historic Core section, They used their original baseline location(Main-Los Angeles) as a starting point for the conceptual renderings but they haven't determined the precise location(s).

That will require further refinement, that refinement can and will effect what happens at 1st/Alameda when they continue with the EIR process.

Denis on December 29, 2008, at 09:31AM – #11

RE Connector & Little Tokyo station:

Regardless if the Little Tokoy station will be located at the SW or NE corner as Damien and Jerard point out, does this mean that the line Culver City - East LA would bypass Union Station?