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Posted on 05/22/2014 7:54:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - The federal government will spend $2 billion to extend a subway line under Los Angeles' storied Wilshire Boulevard, an effort to ease congestion in one of the country's most transited corridors and to eventually link downtown to the beach with a "Subway to the Sea."
The project is meant to improve traffic in a part of the city where it can take hours to go just a few miles, with train stations to be built at major cultural attractions, including museums and the glitzy shopping areas of Beverly Hills.
Backers hope at some point to expand the subway all the way to a station near the beach in Santa Monica.
"Where the car used to be king, we say, 'Look out, you don't have to get in your car,'" Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Wednesday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. to announce the funding.
The backing from the U.S. Department of Transportation comes after decades of controversy pitting supporters of public transportation against opponents who complained about traffic, but feared that the subway's construction would disrupt local residents and businesses and cause safety problems.
A portion of the subway, a 6.5-mile (10.5-km) hop from downtown to Western Avenue in Koreatown, was completed in 1996, but opposition from affluent West Side residents and concern about a 1985 methane explosion that blew up a clothing store near Wilshire Boulevard stymied further progress.
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What's a yute?
DING DING DING! Winner. When the knock-out game makes it to the streets
of Beverley Hills you can bet there will be sudden problems with the line.
2 billion? Yeah right. Monorails anyone?
“- The federal government will spend $2 billion”
And when that 2 billion runs out?
I cant recall the last time a government project like this came in under or at 2 billion. Mustve been 70 years the last time. (An exaggeration, but not by much)
RE: I cant recall the last time a government project like this came in under or at 2 billion.
When a government project/agency/program/etc. is estimated in the beginning to cost X amount, expect the final amount to be AT LEAST 2X.
A way to funnel tax payer money to bail out the mexicalifornia rats and to support their new friends and partners, the illegals
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