Museums: Subway Access and the Future of Los Angeles Tourism

I read with interest your article updating the community on the many new museums which are creating a “Smithsonian-like” museum row in mid-Wilshire. With this exciting development, it makes it more critical than ever that the Los Angeles subway system return to Wilshire Boulevard with a stop at these museums.

For the tourists who will come to Los Angeles in future years and for all of us who live here, it is essential that the Wilshire Boulevard museums be accessed by a safe, pollution-free transit system which does not further congest our streets. There is really only one answer, and that is the extension of the L.A. subway system to the Wilshire museums.

Some time ago I was quoted as saying “Can you imagine the Paris metro without a stop at the Louvre?” With the expansive museum complex that is developing in L.A., the community must insist on a metro stop at “L.A. Louvre.”

ALLAN L. ALEXANDER, Beverly Hills

The author is vice mayor of Beverly Hills but wrote this letter as a private citizen.