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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Project Update

Mid-City Westside Transit CorridorMid-City Exposition Light Rail Transit Project

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Proposed Alignment

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Project Status

What’s been done to dateDraft EIS/EIR approved (June 2001)- MTA Board adopts light rail as preferred mode

Administrative FEIS/FEIR forwarded to FTA for review (May 2004)Approval to circulate FEIS/FEIR expected (November 2004)

UpcomingPublic review of FEIS/FEIRMTA Board consideration of design optionsCompletion of preliminary engineering

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Project Outreach

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Project Outreach

Downtown Los Angeles Working GroupCentral City AssociationL.A. Convention CenterLAUSDAnschutz Entertainment Group (AEG)

/ Staples CenterUSCCalifornia Science CenterL.A. Memorial Coliseum & Sports

ArenaNatural History MuseumOrthopaedic HospitalL.A. Trade TechFigueroa BIDThe Shammus GroupShrine AuditoriumSouth Park Stakeholders

Mid-Corridor Working GroupDAWA Center of Masjid UMARWard Economic Development

CorporationCrenshaw Chamber of CommerceBaldwin Hills Crenshaw Homeowners

CoalitionBaldwin Hills Neighborhood AllianceJohn T. Graves Real EstateDorsey High SchoolFoshay Junior High SchoolL.A. Neighborhood InitiativeBaldwin Vista HOAFirst AMEFriends 4 ExpoCrenshaw NeighborsLA City Bicycle Coalition

West End StakeholdersCulver City Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)

- Transportation, Public Works, Community Development

East Culver City Neighborhood Alliance

South Robertson Neighborhood Association

Samitaur ConstructionEcho Horizon SchoolWalter Marks, Inc.L.A. County Bicycle CoalitionTurning Point SchoolBallona Creek RenaissanceCastle Heights Neighborhood Association

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Downtown LA Connection

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USC / Exposition Park

Hill Street LPA

Flower Street Undercrossing

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USC / Exposition Park

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Mid-Corridor Design

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La Cienega ECIS Site

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West End

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Exposition Transit Parkway

National Blvd. in Culver City

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Bikeway

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Venice-Robertson Station

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Venice-Robertson Station

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Stations

Center platform configuration

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Project Schedule

Current ActivitiesMetro Board vote to bond $240.9M and accelerate project (September 2004)MTA evaluating acceleration of opening from 2012 to 2010

UpcomingMTA to work with westside cities to create construction joint powers authorityJPA to oversee construction (2006-2010)Project to be constructed utilizing Design-Build

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Project Update

Mid-City Westside Transit CorridorMid-City Exposition Light Rail Transit Project

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