Not taking sides, Rep. Brad Sherman asks Metro to further investigate tunneling under Bel Air for rail project.
FILE- The 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass. LA Metro plans a rail project over the pass, connecting San Fernando Valley with the Westside. A new survey on what people think of rail underground or elevated was released on Dec. 7, 2022.
“Brad knows of Bel Air’s opposition to Metro’s poorly thought out consideration of building a mind boggling expensive and potentially dangerous subway under our community,” wrote Jamie Meyer, president of Bel Air Association on the group’s website. Meyer added that the homeowner group “looks forward to working with our new congressman, Brad Sherman!”
About the only certainties for this project are the two end points. The proposed transit line would end at the Metrolink/Amtrak station at Van Nuys Boulevard and Saticoy Street on the north, and the line would end on the south at the Metro E light-rail line that runs from Santa Monica to Downtown L.A.
Sherman’s letter says Metro should further investigate and share information about the cost, the construction timing, and the speed of a ride from the Valley to the Westside, along with “resiliency” of a subway, especially in an earthquake. “People look at this letter and say I am leaning in this direction or that direction. I am not,” Congressman Sherman said in an interview on Monday, Dec. 12. “I’ve been fighting for rail through Sepulveda Pass for decades. I’m not trying to kill it.”“I can’t support anything until I get community input and more information about speed, cost and convenience. All we have now is little maps with lines on them. How can you evaluate that?” he said.
Alternative 6: Heavy rail with underground alignment including along Van Nuys Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley and a southern terminus station on Bundy Drive.on the massive project that would move people between two heavily populated regions of L.A. without getting into a car. Over 400,000 people travel the 405 and its nearby surface streets each weekday and 98% of them are in cars.
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