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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



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



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)



Crenshaw Line Alignment



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



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)



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



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:



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:



Stages

Conceptual PlanningDraft EIR

Final Planning

Final EIR ApprovalConstruction Begins

PUC Approval

Documents

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