In the event you stay lengthy sufficient, chances are you’ll sometime inform your disbelieving grandkids of these many hours spent crawling on the 405 freeway.
That’s as a result of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is within the early levels of a mission to attach the San Fernando Valley to West L.A. with a prepare.
The so-called Sepulveda Transit Hall goals to ease congestion on the 405 Freeway via the Sepulveda Cross, a notoriously congested slog for drivers.
To ease that, a totally automated fast transit line would join the San Fernando Valley to the Westside. The road would join with Metro’s present and future stops, together with within the coronary heart of the UCLA campus. It might go as quick as 70 mph.
“That may join Van Nuys all the way in which right down to the Expo Line in 20 minutes,” mentioned Yusef Robb, a spokesperson for Sepulveda Transit Hall Companions, talking to KABC. “It might join Westwood to Ventura Boulevard in six and a half minutes. We’re proposing that trains run each two and a half minutes.”
Metro says the mission can be funded by Measure R and M from tax proceeds, and it’s seeking to faucet into federal funding.
The mission is now within the fingers of Metro’s environmental overview workforce. The board might vote on the mission late subsequent yr.
