MTA officials released a plan Wednesday night to run the Crenshaw line along existing track through an industrial area of Inglewood, avoiding the city's main commercial thoroughfares,
according to a story in the Daily Breeze.
The Crenshaw line, still years away, would connect the Expo Line to the Green Line, and pass within a mile of Los Angeles International Airport.
Ridiculously the MTA also has shelved the idea of extending the Crenshaw Line north to link up with the existing subway terminus at Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue. Crenshaw becomes too narrow north of Exposition and that the surrounding neighborhood is incompatible with rail transit, officials said.
The Crenshaw line is
a higher priority than a subway extension along Wilshire Boulevard and, unlike the Wilshire line,
it has committed funding, Gene Maddaus reports.
Another key element, Maddaus writes, is that Crenshaw trains would use Green Line and Expo Line tracks so passengers could take a train from home in Leimert Park to work in El Segundo without having to switch trains.
The project is expected to cost $1 billion to $1.6 billion.
The MTA will hold two more community meetings to hear public comment on the Crenshaw Line:
10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, 4718 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles.
6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Wilshire United Methodist Church 4350 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles.
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