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#1 Sloan

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Posted 21 June 2015 - 08:38 AM

 

 

Watch Out! The Westside Train Is About to Arrive in L.A.; Here's All You Need to Know

 

Los Angeles' promised "subway-to-the-sea" isn't going to transform the city anytime soon: The Purple Line along Wilshire Boulevard, which departs west from downtown and currently ends in Koreatown, is set to advance to the eastern edge of Beverly Hills by 2023, projecting to finally reach Westwood by 2035, with a final leg extending all the way to the Pacific still unfunded and unscheduled.

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Posted 30 September 2015 - 12:43 PM

Progressive Railroading, 9/30/15:

 


L.A. Metro to begin station construction for Purple Line extension

 

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) next month will reconfigure a portion of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles to make way for the future Wilshire/La Brea subway station.

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Posted 06 January 2016 - 12:19 PM

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L.A. Metro awards $31.5 million signaling contract to Ansaldo


Ansaldo STS has obtained a $31.5 million contract to design, furnish, test and commission a signaling and train control system for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's West Side Subway Extension, the company announced yesterday.


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Posted 07 June 2016 - 07:54 AM

 

 

Purple Line Extension station construction set to begin on LACMTA

 

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) will begin building the Wilshire/La Brea underground station for the Purple Line Extension Project June 10.

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Posted 31 October 2016 - 10:34 AM

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Los Angeles County's $6.3B Metro Purple Line Subway Extension Under Way

 

Work is under way on the first section of Los Angeles County's $6.3 billion Metro Purple Line subway extension that will speed passengers from Los Angeles west to popular destinations like Miracle Mile, Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood.

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Posted 20 April 2017 - 10:17 PM

LACMTA news release:
 

Ice Age Camel and Elephant Fossils Unearthed at Wilshire/La Brea Metro Purple Line Extension Construction Site

 

Wednesday April 19, 2017

 

 

Metro Purple Line Extension workers excavating the future subway station at Wilshire and La Brea Avenue in L.A.’s Miracle Mile District have unearthed the station’s second Ice Age fossils: a camel bone and a mammoth or mastodon bone.

 

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Fossils were uncovered April 12 and 13 as Metro’s contractor Skanska, Traylor, Shea was digging the subway station box. Cogstone Resource Management, the project’s paleontologist, was monitoring excavation work, and temporarily diverted the digging operation to carefully preserve and extract the fossils using plaster casts. Cogstone paleontologists then transported the fossils to the company’s lab in Riverside, California, where they have now identified them.

 

The first fossil is a radioulna – a combination of forearm bones between the wrist and elbow – from an extinct camel named Camelops hesternus. These bones gave the ancient camel added support to displace its body weight over its front and hind legs. The Pleistocene era fossil is approximately 20 inches long.

“It is surprising to most people that camels were once native to Southern California,” said Dr. Ashley Leger, Paleontological Field Director for Cogstone. “Camel bones are quite rare in the fossil record of our area. We are very excited about what we might discover next in this fossil-rich area.”

 

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The Ice Age camel fossil is slightly different than modern dromedary camels. Camelops hesternus had longer limbs, knobbier knees, and a larger head. Camels originated in North America about 45 million years ago.

 

The second fossil is most likely a femur, or thigh bone, of an Ice Age elephant. Referred to as a proboscidean, this elephant fossil comes from either a mastodon or mammoth. These types of early elephants were the largest of the land mammals during the Ice Age. If a mammoth, it would be a Columbian mammoth, not a wooly mammoth. The L.A. area would have been too warm to support wooly mammoths. The bone itself is a major weight-bearing bone, is very robust, and measures approximately 36 inches in length.

 

Both new fossils are the second ancient animals discovered by the Metro Purple Line Subway Extension Project. Metro’s contractor is now building a four-mile subway extension from the Wilshire/Western Purple Line terminus to Wilshire/La Cienega in Beverly Hills. A tusk, tooth fragments and a nearly complete skull from a mastodon were unearthed at the same Wilshire/La Brea Station excavation site last November.

All fossils found at the Wilshire/La Brea station excavation will be handed over to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.  

For additional project information, please visit www.metro.net/purplelineext.

 

Photo Caption 1: Cogstone workers place ancient elephant bone in plaster cast to safely remove it from the Wilshire/La Brea subway station excavation.

 

Photo Caption 2: The Ice Age camel bone measures approximately 20 inches.

Photo Credit: L.A. Metro

 



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Posted 12 December 2017 - 10:04 AM

AP via WTOP radio, 12/11/17:
 

Los Angeles subway work uncovers array of Ice Age fossils

 

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As part of the crew digging a subway extension under the streets of Los Angeles, Ashley Leger always keeps her safety gear close by.

 

When her phone buzzes, she quickly dons a neon vest, hard hat and goggles before climbing deep down into a massive construction site beneath a boulevard east of downtown.

 

Earth-movers are diverted, and Leger gets on her hands and knees and gently brushes the dirt from a spot pointed out by a member of her team. Her heart beats faster because there’s a chance she’ll uncover what she calls “the big find.”

 

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Paleontologists have staffed all L.A. subway digs beginning in the 1990s, when work started on the city’s inaugural line, said Dave Sotero, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

 

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Posted 10 January 2018 - 08:45 PM

The Source, LACMTA blog, 1/10/18:
 

Update on construction progress for the Purple Line Extension

 

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Work excavating the Wilshire/La Brea Station under Wilshire Boulevard. The photo was taken in August. Steve Hymon/Metro.

 

 

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With the turning of the calendar, we thought it would be a good time to provide an update on one of our key transit projects: the nine-mile extension of the Purple Line subway from the Wilshire/Western Station to Westwood. 

 

There are also upcoming community meetings — see the schedule at the bottom of the post. 

 

The project is being built in three sections. Construction is underway on the first section to Wilshire/La Cienega and will soon begin on the second section to downtown Beverly Hills and Century City.  Below is the updated scheduled recently posted to the project’s home page on metro.net.

 

The plan is to have all three sections in operations before the LA 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. Metro is working on the $1.3-billion grant necessary for section three (the federal money will be paired with money from Measures R and M).

 

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Posted 06 April 2018 - 04:27 PM

Curbed Los Angeles, 4/4/18:
 

First look at the Purple Line’s Westwood stations

The Westwood/UCLA and Westwood/VA stations are looking good

 

 

There’s already plenty of anticipation mounting for the opening of the Purple Line extension to Westwood. Now, newly released station renderings are adding to the mix.

 

The renderings, shown in a Metro presentation, give us a glimpse of the extension’s two western-most stations in Westwood—one at UCLA and another at the extension’s terminus at the VA West Los Angeles Medical Center.

 

The stations both feature glassy overhangs and similar colorings, but the Westwood/VA station rendering also includes a pedestrian bridge.

 

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