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[KevinKorell]

Front Page Online, 6/27/13:

No Tunnel Yet. Metro Board Approves Funding, Builder for Crenshaw Line

After more than 30 years of discussion and planning, organizing and advocating, full funding for the design and construction of the Crenshaw-to-LAX light rail line was approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board this afternoon.

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[KevinKorell]

Front Page Online, 7/1/13:

Bruised, Not Beaten, Crenshaw Vows to Continue Tunnel Fight

On this fourth morning after the MTA Board’s darkly disappointing decision last Thursday to daintily skirt a showdown vote on an 11-block light rail tunnel at the southerly end of the Crenshaw Boulevard-to-LAX line, leaders of the Crenshaw Subway Coalition and their allies remain dazed but unbowed.

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[KevinKorell]

Front Page Online, 7/1/13:

Ridley-Thomas’s Message: Be Happy with What You Have

In the aftermath of the Metro Board’s decision last Thursday to avoid acting on an 11-block tunnel on the Crenshaw-to-LAX light rail line, the South Los Angeles neighborhood’s most powerful elected official said of the tunnel’s prospects “I don’t know.”

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[KevinKorell]

Front Page Online, 7/4/13:

Goodmon Seeks Probe of Metro Board’s Tunnel Inaction

Reflecting on last Thursday’s huge letdown at the Metro Board meeting when members declined to make a call on a light rail tunnel at the end of the Crenshaw Boulevard-to-LAX line, Damien Goodmon, a leading advocate, said “that meeting was perhaps our best opportunity in the last two years to get this done. But it was not our last chance.”

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[KevinKorell]

Los Angeles, CA Times, 8/11/13:

Newest train to LAX will still come up short, at least at first

Wrapping up a Los Angeles vacation and an hourlong, two-train trek from downtown, Benjamin Levert and his slightly harried wife and daughters just wanted to check in for their flight back to France. Exiting the Metro Green Line at the Aviation/LAX station, they towed their four suitcases down a long escalator.

Their story continues here.

And it's a valid point. The Crenshaw LRT line has its merits, as it will serve a busy corridor and connect the Green Line with the Expo Line. But it won't provide any more service to the Airport grounds than now exists with the Green Line. In other words, one will still need to transfer to a bus shuttle at the closest station -- it's just that the closest station will be a little closer than it is today. It's ludicrous that LAX does not have any on-airport or off-airport rail transporataion as most modern airports do today. But the way the airport is built in U-formation may prevent the addition of a rail line, whether in the form of a people mover, monorail, light rail, etc.

I personally doubt that there will be a light rail spur off the Crenshaw Line. Remember there will still be the need to transfer to something, that is, if something can be built with the limited space available to run to all the terminals. Otherwise, something may have to be built just to one central location, which would require yet another transfer or a lot of walking to access the airline terminals people may need to get to.

[KevinKorell]

Los Angeles, CA Times, 9/7/13:

Workers hoping to build Crenshaw Line rally in Leimert Park

Supervisor Ridley-Thomas tells the Ready to Work Rally that Metro must hire from the depressed area along the line.

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[Sloan]

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Crenshaw-LAX light rail will connect Expo, Green lines

JEFFERSON PARK, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Years in the planning and years in the funding, Los Angeles is about to get another light rail system. Tuesday marks the ground breaking for the Crenshaw-LAX line, which will connect the Expo and Green lines.

http://abclocal.go.c...=...&id=9401735

[KevinKorell]

Progressive Railroading, 1/22/14:

LACMTA breaks ground on Crenshaw/LAX light-rail extension

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) officials yesterday at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Crenshaw/LAX light-rail line extension.

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[CNJRoss]

USDOT bulletin, 1/23:

New in the DOT Fast Lane--Secretary Foxx: TIFIA helps L.A. transit continue to bridge opportunity divide

Department of Transportation sent this bulletin at 01/23/2014 11:01 AM EST

Los Angeles, California, is our nation's second largest city, with a population of 3.8 million people. But the L.A. Metropolitan area is actually home to more than 12 million people, and if we cast our net just a bit wider to cover what's called the Greater L.A. Combined Statistical Area--the 3rd largest CSA in the world after New York and Tokyo--we're talking about nearly 18 million people. And the region continues to grow.

You don't have to be an engineer to know that creating a transportation system that can move that many people safely, reliably, and efficiently is an enormous challenge.

At DOT, we’ve been proud to support a number of transit projects in Los Angeles, from the Regional Connector Project to the Westside Subway Extension. And on Tuesday, I was proud again to help break ground on another piece of the Southland's transportation puzzle: the Crenshaw light rail line...

You can read more about the new Crenshaw transit line on our Fast Lane blog.

[KevinKorell]

Progressive Railroading, 8/12/15:

 

L.A. Metro unveils new station names, advances construction of Crenshaw/LAX transit-rail

 

 

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (Metro) board approved names for the eight new stations along the Crenshaw/LAX transit-rail project.

Station names & construction news here.