City Council Wants Valley to Get Next Rail Line
The Los Angeles City Council voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to request that the San Fernando Valley get priority over two competing areas--in Pasadena and the Los Angeles International Airport vicinity--for construction of the next mass transit rail line.
However, the 12-3 vote may have little impact because the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission appears bent on approving a plan by its staff under which the Valley line--an extension to Van Nuys of the downtown-to-North Hollywood Metro Rail subway--would be built after the other two.
The first to be constructed under the staff’s plan would be a 2.5-mile spur from the western terminus of the Century Freeway light-rail line to LAX, and the second would be a 13.5-mile light-rail line from downtown to Pasadena.
The plan assumes that California voters on June 5 will approve ballot propositions to pay for mass transit.
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