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WOODLAND HILLS : More Money Set Aside for Rail Study

By HENRY CHU
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The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission on Wednesday approved an additional $63,900 for a study of the environmental impact of a proposed monorail over the Ventura Freeway.

The unanimous vote increased to $270,900 the amount allocated for a report on the proposed rail line, which would run along the freeway’s southern shoulder from the planned Universal City Metro Rail subway station to Warner Center in Woodland Hills.

The additional money was needed to analyze several concerns raised during a 90-day public comment period on a draft of the environmental study. Residents questioned whether the project, scheduled to be completed by the year 2001, would displace a fire station and block left turns on a section of Canoga Avenue near Warner Center.

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Opponents of the monorail also have argued that the rail line would worsen noise and traffic problems as well as be a visual blight.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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