MTA Abandons Subway-Track Storage Plan
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has agreed to abandon plans to store quarter-mile lengths of subway tracks near the Hollywood Freeway in North Hollywood, said County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who helped broker the deal.
The plan to put the track--meant for the North Hollywood line of the Red Line subway--in a residential neighborhood had drawn the wrath of homeowners, who protested that the site would be ugly and dangerous.
Now, according to Yaroslavsky, the rail will be stored at the corner of Tujunga Avenue and Chandler Boulevard, at a site formerly occupied by an MTA subcontractor.
“The irony is that the whole maneuver saves money,” Yaroslavsky said. “Because they no longer have to build two 16-foot-high walls to contain the rails.”
The right-of-way between the Ventura Freeway and Colfax Avenue where the rail was to have been stored, will now be landscaped, he said.
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