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8/14/2019 Community Mtg 091123
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Crenshaw-South Bay LineCommunity Organizing
Meeting
Meeting of: Crenshaw Subway Coalition
Citizens’ Campaign to Fix the Expo Rail Line
Joint Committee of South L.A. Neighborhood Councils on Rail Transit
November 23, 2009
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Joint Committee on Rail Transit
West Adams Neighborhood CouncilWest Area Neighborhood Development
Council
North Area Neighborhood DevelopmentCouncil
Organized for the purpose of collaborating onrail issues in our community
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The Long Term Vision:Hollywood-to-South Bay Line
A high-speed regional railalternative that would have amonopoly on rapid
transportation along thecorridor due to the absence of highway alternative north of
Inglewood
Providing connections to allfour east-west rail lines
100K/day ridership project
Funded Green Line Extension toSouth Bay Galleria (or beyond)
Metro Pink Line by way of the
Grove/CBS Studios (possibly all LRT or dual mode HRT & LRT)
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Crenshaw Line Alignment
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Crenshaw Blvd Subway
Crenshaw Blvd is the African-American community’s Champs-Elysees
Among the long-term benefits: improve the corridor’s development prospects, eliminate the safetyhazards (several schools directly adjacent or within a block of at-grade crossings), need for parking reductions, and adverse traffic impacts, address environmental justice implications, andincrease operating speed of line
Among the construction benefits: capture the economies of scale of bored tunneling, and reduceconstruction time frame, air quality impacts and other adverse construction impacts
Comply with community request and local agency policies and recommendations:
CPUC: evaluate grade separation of all at-grade crossings, and grade separate 57th Streetsand Slauson Ave
LA City Council: the entire Crenshaw Blvd portion of the project should be built underground
Crenshaw Specific Plan: Prohibition on overhead utility lines
Leimert Park Village Mixed-use Park & Ride:Paris’ Champs-Elysees
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LRT Subway Costs Comparisons
Raw construction cost of underground Mariachi Plaza and Soto Stations: ~$35M and ~$29Mrespectively
Comparatively staff assumes that just one underground Crenshaw LRT station will be $96M per the DEIR/S
Staff’s Crenshaw Line underground costs are wildly off the mark
Eastside Extension Construction Costs from Pg. 5-2 of the FEIR/S
(final cost 7% higher than assumed)
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Problem: Harbor SubdivisionCapacity Limitations & Funding
Section should be builtwith the capacity to fitat least two lines.
Grade separationrequired
48-60 trains per hour:
Crenshaw (24)
Harbor Local (24)
Express (12)
Express service couldinclude pass-throughtracks at local stationsand modified light railvehicles (configured
for large baggage) Despite good cost-
effectiveness, highridership and a transitdependent areaHarbor Subdivisionproject lacks funding
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Solution: Extend Grade SeparationsHyde Park Tunnel Extension:
Extended I-405-La Cienega-
Manchester Overcrossing:
Key:
- Green = elevated
- Blue = at-grade
- Red = below grade
-Hazard symbol =
at-grade crossing
Also neededbut not shown:
-Arbor Vitae
grade sep
-Cedar closure
Current MTA Staff Report:
Current MTA Staff Report:
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Alt. Yard Site: Imperial/Aviation Site is large enough to fit a consolidated maintenance facility for both the Green &
Crenshaw Lines, and possibly an additional mode (bus division or LAX people mover)
Among other benefits: Reduced operational cost and may make the maintenancefacility eligible for stimulus funds and/or a LAWA partnership
:Site today
Site shown to
scale with two
Green Line yards:
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Stages
Conceptual PlanningDraft EIR
Final Planning
Final EIR ApprovalConstruction Begins
PUC Approval