Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) is ready to begin building the Wilshire/La Brea underground station for the metro Purple Line extension project.
Metro’s contractor Skanska, Traylor and Shea, a Joint Venture (STS) will excavate a portion of Wilshire Boulevard and replace it with concrete deck panels that will act as a temporary street surface while underground station excavation continues below. The work is part of Metro’s first major station construction for the USD 6.3 billion metro project that will extend the Metro Purple Line further west.
“Metro continues to transform transportation in L.A. County, and we’re now ready to begin building the first of three subway stations that will provide more Angelenos with fast, frequent, high-capacity transit service along Wilshire Boulevard – one of our region’s most congested corridors,” Mark Thomas, L.A. County Supervisor and Metro Board Chair said.
The first section of the Metro Purple Line Extension Project now under construction will add nearly 6.4 km of metro from the Wilshire/Western Purple Line Station west to Wilshire/La Cienega and include three new stations at Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega. Construction of the first metro section began in early 2015. The first section is scheduled to be operational in 2023. Two subsequent sections are also planned that will add four more stations ultimately extending the metro to Westwood/VA Hospital by 2035 under current funding scenarios.
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