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Post by jdrcrasher on Jul 12, 2011 15:47:38 GMT -8
No way should we just avoid Beverly Hills just because some NIMBYs are retarded.
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Post by rajacobs on Jul 12, 2011 21:56:41 GMT -8
Actually, I love the suggestion of an Olympic alignment and approaching Constellation from the south. ...What a coup that would be, in particular, for the Orthodox Jewish community south of Olympic and along Pico, and what an opportunity to gain a whole middle class sector of the Westside--from Palms clear to BH--beginning to rethink and reorient themselves regarding their personal transportation.
...And the idea doesn't avoid BH. Olympic Bl. is in BH from La Cienega to Century City!
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Post by LAofAnaheim on Jul 13, 2011 0:10:49 GMT -8
Actually, I love the suggestion of an Olympic alignment and approaching Constellation from the south. ...What a coup that would be, in particular, for the Orthodox Jewish community south of Olympic and along Pico, and what an opportunity to gain a whole middle class sector of the Westside--from Palms clear to BH--beginning to rethink and reorient themselves regarding their personal transportation. ...And the idea doesn't avoid BH. Olympic Bl. is in BH from La Cienega to Century City! After the rail line opens...guess what the # 1 complaint will be: "Why did Metro bypass Rodeo boulevard..that is as dumb as the Aviation Station/LAX connection...2 mile gap!" Wilshire/Rodeo deserves a station. It's like bypassing Champs-Elysses, 5th Avenue, Michigan Avenue, etc... Tourists, companies (look at how many high rises are in the Triangle). It makes too much sense NOT to bypass Rodeo. If you go south on Olympic.........the layperson will blame Metro, as they do today for the Green Line, and not the community at large. And you know Metro does not keep needing the negative press due to missed connections....
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Post by K 22 on Jul 13, 2011 7:29:59 GMT -8
For the sake of reference, 5th Avenue has three stations in Midtown Manhattan.
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Post by bzcat on Jul 13, 2011 12:00:57 GMT -8
So does Champs-Élysées in Paris. I don't see Chanel or Hermes suffering from being right on top of George V subway station. These guys in Beverly Hills are true morons for every sense of the word. George V Metro station by Jainbow, on Flickr
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Post by tonyw79sfv on Jul 13, 2011 13:15:07 GMT -8
Anyone realize that Wilshire/Normandie & Wilshire/Western opened 15 years ago today? In addition to Wilshire/Vermont.
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Post by masonite on Jul 13, 2011 14:18:57 GMT -8
Anyone realize that Wilshire/Normandie & Wilshire/Western opened 15 years ago today? In addition to Wilshire/Vermont. 15 years. I started working downtown a couple months later and began taking the 320 Wilshire bus and this then new extension. The Wilshire area around those stations have experienced a renaissance over the last 15 years. I wish somebody like the LA Times would do a chronicle of this area and Hollywood before the subway and now.
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Post by jdrcrasher on Jul 13, 2011 20:57:34 GMT -8
This is... soooo beautiful it makes me cry! Can we build subway portals like this for Rodeo?
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Post by metrocenter on Jul 14, 2011 9:25:09 GMT -8
Can we build subway portals like this for Rodeo? Screw BH, for all the trouble they're causing they deserve a urine-filled elevator. Metro should build the good ones (as in the Paris picture) at Westwood, Century City, Fairfax and the other non-Beverly Hills stations.
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Post by LAofAnaheim on Jul 14, 2011 10:01:30 GMT -8
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Post by erict on Jul 14, 2011 14:51:36 GMT -8
Typical LA Weekly horrible writing, no one should take them seriously anymore.
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Post by jdrcrasher on Jul 14, 2011 16:02:04 GMT -8
Screw BH, for all the trouble they're causing they deserve a urine-filled elevator. Metro should build the good ones (as in the Paris picture) at Westwood, Century City, Fairfax and the other non-Beverly Hills stations. Yeah but you never know. Maybe the BH Merchants will like that kind of a portal.
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Post by Gokhan on Sept 18, 2011 2:17:38 GMT -8
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Post by James Fujita on Sept 18, 2011 10:57:19 GMT -8
Screw BH, for all the trouble they're causing they deserve a urine-filled elevator. Metro should build the good ones (as in the Paris picture) at Westwood, Century City, Fairfax and the other non-Beverly Hills stations. Yeah but you never know. Maybe the BH Merchants will like that kind of a portal. you know, I'm not really a fan of big, grand entrances. I'd rather have lots of little entrances than one big entrance. (but then, even small entrances can be nice)however, pretty much all of the Metro Rail subway entrances have been nice and vaguely artistic, whether it was at Boyle Heights or Hollywood. It would be kind of petty to say no to a decent entrance, if not a fancy one, in Beverly Hills when every other station has been decent. and, if BH wants a station that is better than average, they can certainly afford to pay for better entrances.
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Post by jdrcrasher on Sept 18, 2011 19:01:39 GMT -8
you know, I'm not really a fan of big, grand entrances. I'd rather have lots of little entrances than one big entrance. (but then, even small entrances can be nice)however, pretty much all of the Metro Rail subway entrances have been nice and vaguely artistic, whether it was at Boyle Heights or Hollywood. It would be kind of petty to say no to a decent entrance, if not a fancy one, in Beverly Hills when every other station has been decent. and, if BH wants a station that is better than average, they can certainly afford to pay for better entrances. Sometimes you have to meet halfway with people to get things done, and we are seeing the consequences of not doing so in Washington..... The reason I think the BH merchants MIGHT like that Paris-style portal (and in turn, accept a subway station in general) is that it's quite possible they could have assumed that this was the kind of entrance style they were going to get for subway entrances: praja.in/files/imce/u197/subway-entrance_brooklyn-bridge-city-hall-station.jpgFor obvious reasons, the Paris-style subway entrance would seem to better fit Beverly Hills' "global image"... which is the kind of approach Metro has been doing lately when designing subway stations and station entrances. I don't think it's asking too much (I mean is it really all that more expensive?) for Metro to take that Paris-style route when working on the design for the Rodeo Station entrances.
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Post by LAofAnaheim on Sept 29, 2011 11:56:36 GMT -8
This is very good news folks! Due to the AEG bill of expediting lawsuits and sending them straight to the appeals courts; a side bill was passed for ALL public projects over $100 million, the Westside subway extension (and possibly the Crenshaw Line) falls in the same bucket. We have to wait 2.5 years on the Expo final ruling expected in May 2012 after the Appeals review is done, whereas Crenshaw and Purple Line will be done in 1/2 a year. Thanks to AEG, this will help expedite our projects!! la.streetsblog.org/2011/09/29/browns-aeg-bill-could-help-westside-subway-avoid-lawsuit-delays/
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Post by LAofAnaheim on Oct 4, 2011 11:27:54 GMT -8
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Post by masonite on Oct 4, 2011 14:34:27 GMT -8
According to this report presented in the Construction Committee, actual construction work wouldn't begin until 2014 for the Westside Extension. I am hoping that this is a mistake as I had always heard the beginning of 2013. However, I wouldn't be surprised. The Regional Connector seems to be way ahead even though the environmental docs are in about the same place. Now is the time to get these construction contracts signed as the bids seem to be coming in quite low. www.metro.net/board/Items/2011/09_September/20110915CONItem62Handout.pdf
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Post by Gokhan on Oct 4, 2011 14:50:11 GMT -8
This is a great table, thanks. Expo Phase 1 is still scheduled for December 2011 opening it says. We'll see what they will say this Thursday.
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Post by LAofAnaheim on Oct 4, 2011 20:12:43 GMT -8
Interesting..........looks like the Blue Line tie-in is no longer a "Potential risk". Seems like this is resolved?
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Post by jdrcrasher on Oct 4, 2011 21:13:43 GMT -8
^wait..... what's that red dotted vertical line on the Project Schedules chart on Page 2?
Is that some sort of..... deadline to get 30/10 approved?
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Post by Justin Walker on Oct 4, 2011 21:28:58 GMT -8
^wait..... what's that red dotted vertical line on the Project Schedules chart on Page 2? Is that some sort of..... deadline to get 30/10 approved? The red line represents the current date.
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