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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 19 October 2017 - 12:39 PM

The Source LACMTA Blog:

 
Two public meetings upcoming for project at Union Station to improve subway capacity
 

 

October 18, 2017

 

 

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Earlier today Metro released the Notice of Preparation (NOP) for the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility project, formerly known as the Red/Purple Line Core Capacity Improvements. The project was environmentally cleared as an Initial Study/ Mitigated Negative Declaration in March 2017. The design team has since been looking at design changes to improve the turnback facility and has determined that the project will be cleared through an Environmental Impact Report (EIR).

 

Two public scoping meetings will be held for the project that will allow Red and Purple Line subway trains to turn around more quickly at Union Station. The project will also make it possible to run more trains on both lines and to create faster headways (time between trains) between Union Station, Wilshire/ Vermont and Civic Center Stations.

 

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A view of the rail yards for the Red/Purple Line subway and the entrance to the tunnel at bottom left. Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro.

 

The meeting dates and locations are:

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 
6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. 
Art Share L.A.
801 East 4th Place
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Street parking only.

 

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 
3 p.m. to 5 p.m. 
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Japanese Cultural Room, Floor 5
244 S. San Pedro Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

 

The formal name of the project is the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility Project. The project is about to enter its formal environmental study phase and the meetings are a chance to learn what will be studied and to suggest any other topics or issues that should be addressed in the project’s Environmental Impact Report.

 

Getting more trains in and out of Union Station more quickly is crucial as the Purple Line is currently being extended to the Miracle Mile, Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood in the coming years. The first 3.9-mile section to new stations at Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega is scheduled to open in 2023.

 

The project has two basic components. One is widening the tunnel entrance between Union Station and the Red/Purple Line subway yards in the downtown L.A. Arts District. The other part of the project involves building new tracks in the yard where trains that just dropped of passengers at Union Station could turn around and quickly go back to Union Station.

 

The project is planned to be designed and built in such a way as not to preclude a future Arts District subway station. That project has not been given the go-ahead by the Metro Board, nor does it have funding — although it certainly has been discussed as a possible, separate project for the future. You can read more about that Board report here.

 

 



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Posted 11 October 2018 - 02:33 PM

Progressive Railroading,10/2/18:

 
LA Metro releases final environmental impact report for Union Station subway project

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The project is aimed at improving turnaround times for Red and Purple line subway trains at Union Station. Photo – LA Metro's video on the project

 

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has released the final environmental impact report for its Division 20 portal widening and turnback facility near LA Union Station.

The project is aimed at improving turnaround times for Red and Purple line subway trains at Union Station, and creating more space in the subway car rail yard.

The added space is "important with the subway fleet growing and the first two sections of the Purple Line Extension under construction between Wilshire/Western and Century City," LA Metro officials wrote in a blog.

 

 

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Posted 12 October 2018 - 12:46 AM

I haven't been to Los Angeles all that much, but if I recall correctly, trains can change direction at the Union Station platforms.  I know that the maintenance/storage facility is beyond the station, but I don't remember trains routinely going beyond the station to relay back.  If they are not bound for the yard, changing direction (the motorman & conductor changing ends) at the station platform should take less time overall than doing so in the non-revenue area.



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