Council Panel Supports Valley Light-Rail Line
The three-member Los Angeles City Council Transportation Committee agreed Wednesday to endorse a San Fernando Valley rail line over two other proposed lines elsewhere in the county.
The three council members, each of whom had previously declared their support for extending the downtown Metro Rail subway 5.6 miles west from North Hollywood, voted to recommend that the full council adopt the same position next week. Rival projects are a downtown-to-Pasadena light-rail line and a northward extension of the Century Freeway light-rail line from El Segundo to Marina del Rey.
Councilman Nate Holden, the committee chairman, predicted that the full council will “easily pass” the Valley plan and send it on to the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, which has the final say.
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