The Purple Line - LA's $9.5BN New Metro

[@TheImpossibleBuild]

We are yet to visit this city but we heard the traffic was awful?

[@SWExplore]

It is awful, but getting used to the traffic and freeways is not insurmountable. If you're not comfortable with the freeways and their multiple lanes, you can always take surface streets. Surface streets might take a little longer to get to your destination due to traffic lights and stops, but it you might find it easier and less hectic. Los Angeles is a great city with much to offer, so please come and enjoy the plentiful sights and attractions.

[@starventure]

"We are to visit"? What's up Mao, how are things in Beijing?

[@mrxman581]

​@SWExplore Take the LA Metro, especially for sites well served by it, which are numerous and no need to deal with traffic or paying for parking. You'll also discover many interesting things you miss by only driving.

[@SWExplore]

@@mrxman581 True, true. Very good suggestion.

[@cuda426hemi]

Unlike Boston it's easy to understand aka semi grid and it's not as dense pack aggro like NYC but at commute hours it's pretty stupid. In the 70s and 80s idiot drivers would barely ever get honked at, pretty laid back; today they get shot - a tougher room, different crowd and a lot more of them otr since the 70s. 😎👀

[@rianlong]

LA resident here. At the 1 minute mark of the video you highlight "Wilshire Blvd", however the street you highlighted is actually San Vicente. Wilshire is the one running east to west with all the taller buildings.

[@larry4111]

I'm also wondering what "troleys" ran there (1:23). 🤣🤣🤣 Are they streetcars for trolls?

[@FluffyNicholas]

Asinine video made by someone who’s never been to LA.

[@Tiredgeek]

@@FluffyNicholas Spoken by AI... lol surprised people fall for it.

[@vjspivey]

@@FluffyNicholas and so many misspellings.

[@mikeohawk95]

I’m aware of this mistake too even to living 8nLA for a few years now!!

[@michaelwindsor6536]

It is infuriating how many decades the wealthy and influential have kept this city choked in the 1950's with racist and classist blocks to modern transportation and housing. I think that is just now finally starting to break up a bit. As you can see at different points in the video, this subway line should have been built decades ago.

[@F22dtmer]

Great point. But do you think it will make a difference? Metro is unsafe and more people are working remote now

[@mikeohawk95]

@@F22dtmerout of fear, akak peopel us8ng cowardice for profits sake, except those with courage alike myself and the homeless and those with hope!

[@mikeohawk95]

Elon musk wanted his tunnels buts till not enough to the mas traffic, we also need hovercars too and underground space for more bu8dking expansions, and way to build train lines faster, and include everyone’s ideas all at once, even to voices I’ve heard in LA+ train line under oil filed to close down tiny parkland akak Inglewood and 1/4 commercial expansion there too + solar roadways form Colorado, atom formers from NY etc

[@artprado3466]

Culver city to cerritos is a 30mins drive but with traffic I spend 2 hours on the drive home

[@mikeohawk95]

@@artprado3466 even as placing a elelvated bove level road expansion to house mre traffic + undergound tunnel below existing road to 3x move vehcles but 90% reduced traffic, also on other highwasy inbetween other major cities

[@passatboi]

Toponyms always screw up text-to-speech. La Brea is pronounced La BRAY-ah, not "la bree"

[@scottfranco1962]

As LA wags say, "the LA la brea tar pits", translates to "the LA the tar tar pits".

[@love4lyfe51]

It’s A.I. voice

[@slfs747]

❤ I was about to make that comment too

[@british31]

@6:13 someone forgot to remove the place holder text, unless "longlpsum" is an actual word I don't know about! :p

[@bbartky]

Yea, that made me laugh when I saw it. 😂

[@CheMechanical]

Took out the “Lorem” but left the “Ipsum” from placeholder text.

[@misterinternational]

So is this channel entirely AI generated? Mispronounced words from a possible robot voice, stock footage from cities all over the world, placeholder text in the video?

[@cheef825]

They're becoming more and more common, most just have a 1000 views or so. Always sad to see comments that are clearly from real people underneath them too

[@Yasmine91646]

You can tell it’s AI generated because the speech sounds dry and the tone empty. While I appreciate technological advancements, I don’t want AI replacing everything that humans do

[@roachtoasties]

That's what KZbin has degenerated into. I live in L.A., watch stuff like this, and get irritated with all the mispronounced words and video that seems to be randomly plucked from cities on the other side of the planet.

[@CrkdLtrN]

Plus the stupid sound effects between every image change is just annoying and distracting.

[@jonathaneby1440]

Wilshire, the real estate developer who created the street, never wanted streetcars on his street. The LA streetcars went along Exposition boulevard, Sunset, Santa Monica, Hollywood, and San Vicente, but never Wilshire. He still gets his wish, because this train goes *under* Wilshire. 1:24

[@andre1987eph]

* Wilshire Gaylord to be exact

[@WilliamCarterII]

I actually thought this was B1M and was super disappointed. lol

[@anglin4ya]

Me too. I wondered why on earth they kept flashing NYC's MTA in the beginning of the video. Quickly, it dawned on me: oh, this is AI bot sh*t.

[@truebluereef419]

Same here. I believe it's the thumb nail and the font, blue tile they used.

[@jaye909]

The Temu version of B1M😅

[@JayCla2212]

Same

[@oldschoolrican]

That ROSS is not on Wilshire! It's on 3rd St & Ogden. I went to Hancock Park Elementary in 1985 & I remember the ROSS parking lot was on fire from underground methane gas ruptures along with the building. The GROVE wasn't even built yet.

[@jeffrey4063]

To be accurate the gas explosion at the Ross store was not on Wilshire Boulevard it was on 3rd Street. But this is still a great video so thank you!

[@KevinRoll]

Thank you for making this video, I was a Segment Inspector on purple line 3 extension. I finally have a video to send to my friends to explain what I worked on.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

Amazing that Metrorail still does no go to UCLA! The campus has a 50,000+ weekday population. Traffic & parking are nightmares.

[@glentonrichards]

As an LA resident I found this video to be super informative. Thanks for sharing!

[@SRBrown9032]

I think it's worth noting that in the 1930's into the 1950's General Motors Corporation and related companies conspired to replace rail transit with busses in LA and the Bay Area and succeeded, particularly in LA. They were convicted of conspiring to create transport monopolies. Another thing to note is that the majority of land in LA is devoted to streets and parking lots.

[@Robert-mn2od]

Thank you for your time and work I truly honor .

[@Buffaloc]

I lived 1 block off of Wilshire near Alvarado in the sixties when I was a student with little money. The bus (with horrible fumes) was very convenient. My life revolved around Wilshire Blvd with trips to Westwood, Santa Monica and Hollywood via Western ave bus. On Wilshire there was a bus almost every five minutes. Also, I would walk several miles every day which is very healthy.

[@zzygyy]

Oh my God. The exhaust from the bus when it left the bus stop was horrendous.

[@deepredstate4414]

WTF, you walked???

[@larry4111]

Sorry guys. I got about 2 mins in and the AI finally drove me away. Nice try.

[@zzygyy]

Yeah its annoying.

[@ricksantana1016]

Agreed I got duped as well this is the new A.I. Clickbait, will I be liking and subscribing? In a word NO…

[@danmur2797]

How about focus on the content, the facts, and don't worry so much about whether it's AI or not. The important thing is what is being covered.

[@larry4111]

@@danmur2797 Wrong. It grates on my nerves. Sorry.

[@danmur2797]

@@larry4111 it's not wrong. That is your opinion which you are entitled to. Those with longer attention spans can follow though.

[@ItsEverythingElse]

Too much overuse of animations and sound effects. I can't even watch the video, they are so distracting.

[@Yasmine91646]

Right! It’s annoying so many of these KZbinrs think adding these extra annoying edits to their videos will get them more fame or make the video more engaging smh.

[@Ohkayy_yy]

Lmaooo ok gramps let’s get u to bed

[@kidano5317]

Trying to hard to be the B1M

[@danmur2797]

Missing the forest for the trees.

[@RandomPhone]

For me, it’s the deliberate shaking of the narrower video clips. The few seconds it was shown was enough to make me nauseous.

[@HoodrichDrakeo]

My dad funny enough is the superintendent for local 600 that is working this project. His work truck literally says purple line. Pretty cool

[@RaheemCST]

They been building that tunnel so long it was even put in GTA 5 🤣

[@danmur2797]

Considering it's a subway, it hasn't been that long. Funding and final route decisions were being determined for a few years. In the meantime LA Metro has built out quite an extensive network of other rail lines both light rail and subway.

[@-Katastrophe]

I mean that's one way to get cities to get their stuff together, force them to host the olympics.

[@mrxman581]

The LA Metro rail transit infrastructure projects have NOTHING to do with LA hosting the Olympics. LA actually lost out to the Olympics they originally wanted, which were the 2024 games. LA was given the 2028 games as a consolation. All the current LA Metro projects were o planned and approved way before the games were awarded. However, the city has leveraged hosting the games to speed up the completion of some of the projects to hopefully get them done in time for the Olympics. So, the Olympics are being used to speed up transit projects that were already in the works. They weren't projects started because of the games.

[@KyrilPG]

​@@mrxman581 Same in Paris where many mistakenly link the Grand Paris Express project (and others) to the Olympics even though the GPE was decided well before the Olympics were even awarded or thought about. They were also used to boost some development phases but they never were the reason for the transit system's expansion (especially in a city so reliant on its massive transit system). To the point that, to cope with delays caused by the 2020 mayhem, it was decided to prioritize the most important and urgent parts for the locals and to delay half of what the Olympic committee would have liked to rely on. A first batch has opened in the past weeks and another batch is opening in June next month, that would amount to about 35km (21-22 miles) of new lines this year, mostly deep underground. A first 35km section of the giant underground M15 loop line circling around Paris core will open in fall 2025, then another large section or 2 every year till 2030-2032.

[@ehoops31]

@@mrxman581 LA was doing a lot of metro projects before the olympics, but I wouldn't say it has "NOTHING" to do with it. Metro and the various cities in LA county want to look good to the world and they realize that a lot of people will be visiting without cars, so they are putting a lot more focus on good transit and walkability.

[@eriklakeland3857]

@@KyrilPGline 15 in Paris is one of the most exciting public transit projects in the world.

[@erik_griswold]

Tunnel Boring Machines very much existed in the 1980s when Henry Waxman and Zeb Yaroslavsky worked to block the subway from coming to West Los Angeles.

[@danmur2797]

They probably didn't want the secret underground tunnels in the area to be discovered or disturbed. Many go through downtown LA, and below certain regions of the Westside and SFV.

[@Hexspa]

They were tunneling in Chicago with these in the 90s

[@lucasmartinez21]

Traffic still going to be a nightmare with or without purple lines

[@zzygyy]

More people live in LA county than 32 States in the USA

[@arjanharjani3109]

Ammmmmmmmazing! Hats off to the engineering team

[@shreqboi1]

A few years ago I was walking in downtown LA after having a few drinks late at night, maybe a few too much, and walked over a bridge that had construction going on to the right underneath it. Although it seems like a big blur, I could see what looked like an underground city full of construction workers, lights, and flashes from what looked to be sparks from cutting and welding metal. I always wondered what that was and if it was just a dream created by my imagination. Now I know it wasn’t a dream and in fact this project. 😅😅

[@brianag9726]

How does the TBM get removed? Does it go back or forward?

[@LASurvivor2k25]

Thank you for the video it was very informative

[@andrewlynch8777]

Engineers are amazing gahdamn

[@CheMechanical]

Not the right kind of an engineer for this type of project, but thank you on behalf of all engineers.

[@hanyhady9602]

United States builds amazing very iconic project in Los Angles as United States is the best country in engineering.We all admire and support United States forever.USA is land of great country

[@shelshant]

Kind of wild not to mention the car and gas industry lobbying to prevent and take apart rail transport in La

[@burgers3309]

Well luckily the rail is being built

[@Ruetheworld]

For real! I couldnt take anything else in the video seriously when this was omitted and misdirected blame given to a small neighborhood association instead. Like what other facts are completely ignored and other mistatements given in place of historical record? Also, how are you the only person commenting on it?! For anyone unfamiliar, you can learn about it in the urban development documentary Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Watch it now though before they take it down.

[@janakakumara3836]

LA resident. LA is doing pretty great, for a place where no one is in charge

[@bklmiami9796]

At 6:00 the boring tubes say "Crossrail" - LOL - thank you London!!

[@Robert-mn2od]

You deserve to be praised, thank goodness.

[@marcelmoulin3335]

Thank you for the well-executed, informative video. Let's hope that Los Angeles continues to invest in its transport system. Is it possible that the city could one day have infrastructure that rivals that of Paris?

[@mrxman581]

Los Angeles will continue to invest in public transit infrastructure for the foreseeable future. However, it will do so in its own unique way because LA is a unique city in many ways, including geographically and size wise. To get an idea, Paris is 41 square miles. Los Angeles is 502 square miles. You understand the scope of what Los Angeles is attempting in building out its Metro system? LA Metro will never be as densely built as Paris because it's over 10 times as big. What Los Angeles is doing is building a network of rail lines that will serve the different parts of the city and supplement them with BRTs and regular buses that will feed into these rail lines through the various stations. However, due to such a large surface area, cars will continue to be important because they will also need to feed riders to the stations. That's the main reason why LA Metro will continue constructing parking structures near certain stations. If drivers in LA drove much less, it would be transformational. LA Metro could go a long way to make that happen. That's what I do. If I want to do to DTLA, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, the Santa Monica Beach, etc., I drive 15 minutes to my closest Metro station and use the Metro. Spend the day using it and when I'm ready to go home I head back to my car and drive 15 minutes back home. It works out great. Very convenient. Though, if I lived in DTLA, I probably wouldn't need a car at all since DTLA has the most Metro stations of any neighborhood. LA Metro has 110 miles of track with 101 stations. Within 12 years, that will increase to around 180 miles with several dozen more stations. We are also getting a Metro connection to the LAX airport in 2025. That will be huge, too.

[@marcelmoulin3335]

@@mrxman581 Thank you for the impeccable, informative response.

[@RafaquaQuetta]

I think LA could get there, by 2250 probably

[@marcelmoulin3335]

@@RafaquaQuetta Very funny! Let's hope for the best.

[@Geotpf]

Yeah, that's the issue-Los Angeles is simply too big for Paris style saturation coverage of the entire city. Plus, the city sprawl barely slows down at the city limits, or even county limits. But you can get decent coverage of the most dense and important parts of the city, and Los Angeles is heading towards that goal. It will be a multi decade long series of projects, though.

[@cemdursun]

Interesting choice with eerie dark background music on repeat lol

[@funkmachine9094]

The Dune sandworm is doing a great job!

[@philpots48]

I wonder how does the system deal with earthquakes?

[@mrxman581]

Very good video. Best video I've seen explaining the tunnel boring process. Thanks.

[@tonytorre9432]

Waiting for the Big One.

[@MrRavenchaser]

Hope the project to be open very soon.

[@hanyhady9602]

Los Angles will host Olympic Games .Los Angles is great American city.USA builds most advanced structures and most advanced infrastructures in Los Angles.Los Angles Olympic Games will be the most impressive Olympic Games in world history

[@chorlauheung4920]

It's pronounced la bray ah!!

[@steelman86]

This will be so great when at the VA hospital to get to downtown in a matter of minutes rather than the bus which takes almost an hour To get to the other side of town! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@eme232]

What about south central?

[@matthewjgonzalez82]

🦗🦗🦗

[@danmur2797]

I believe there are already lines that go near or thru south LA. The blue line goes from downtown south to Long Beach. The Green Line goes east-west through south central, and will soon have additional north-south stops at Leimert Park, and Martin Luther King Blvd., Inglewood, etc. The Expo line is also adjacent though a little farther north. A silver line will also go right through the heart of south central between the Green and Blue lines.

[@mrxman581]

​@@danmur2797the K line is already open to South LA.

[@Happy_life0000]

I can not wait for this

[@WDI2008]

Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games!

[@wolf17238]

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I love my city, but it's slowly turning in to NYC. Our population has gone up so much since I was a kid in the 90s.

[@FLAMETOASH]

Takes like these always make me laugh. Your city wouldn't be your city without the people. NYC, Dallas, LA, Chicago...they wouldn't be what they are without the populace. Your growth funds progress, progress helps growth. That gives you more people and culture. Otherwise, you're just another place. Example: Little Rock, AR. Did you know they created cheese dip? A huge staple in Super Bowl parties and just the South in general. But they don't have millions of people beating their chest about it. In that same vein, LA takes pride in its graffiti. BEFORE YOU DENY IT! Maybe talk to the marketing people of LA28. They are using that as advertisement to the world. However, places all over the country do graffiti. It's just millions of people can say no we started it first. That doesn't happen without people. You can't claim you created the Buffalo Wings or the cheesesteak without that "annoying" growth. You don't get public transit if there is no public to transport. You don't get to be a city with a culture of influence to brag about without it. Another example: Nashville Hot Chicken. It's just spicy chicken tenders. But because of their booming growth, the locals can say 'Yeah it's ours' and now everyone has Nashville Hot. Nashville gets advertising, the city grows, and we find out the "Nashville flip" exists.

[@Yasmine91646]

@@FLAMETOASHJesus Christ you’re reaching. You got all of that out of a simple vague comment someone made smh

[@mrxman581]

Los Angeles is a world destination city, but it will never be NYC. We are our own thing. The weather alone is a huge difference that affects how people perceive their community.

[@wolf17238]

@@FLAMETOASH I've been to NYC a few times. Although I like visiting it's way too crowded. I don't like my city being that crowded, that's all I meant. Your essay did not change my mind.

[@johnanderson9735]

Great the LA Subway is making progress, now secure it and make it safe for passengers!

[@mrxman581]

It's being done. It's much safer now and more people continue to use it.

[@burgers3309]

It’s much safer now it’s actually quite nice

[@DouglasSalguero-qh2sd]

Why not make them a longer

[@CarlosRubio-u7b]

Project and budget approved ! Best Professionals start working! On it !

[@adevans20]

Found my new rabbit hole 🎉

[@dvderek]

i love the purple line i need the purple line

[@Colin.Smith.Pianist]

Okay totally unrelated: my mum and I were talking about the Baton Rouge, Louisiana construction on Jefferson highway...it's an absolute nightmare and won't be done until "early" 2026. I'd love to see more content on the less flashy construction projects that we actually deal with on the daily; roundabouts, crumbling bridges, eternal potholes, etc.

[@hanyhady9602]

Many USA cities builds giant structures and infrastructures and new bridges to keep save transportation too all americans

[@gregdelong1539]

Really good video, thanks.

[@mi12no]

That’s great. I found the first mentions of a purple line map halfway through the video. Wasting people’s time is amazing

[@CheMechanical]

Briefly showed the methane plume from the 2015 leak at the Aliso Canyon Storage Field, which has nothing to do with the subject at hand (3:19).

[@Ruetheworld]

Seemed like most of the visuals were unrelated to the actual project. Like why am i seeing so many shots related to the defunct hyper loop PR experiment?

[@andybate9017]

What the heck does (400 feet) "Longlpsum" mean?

[@DefensisIndus]

It's funny cause USA military has had these tunnel boring machines for decades, making their underground bases 😂

[@kirkgriffin927]

A few people in LA hold up mass transit. San Diego has an above ground trolley that almost covers the entire county and city. Glad they did this right. And they are still building.

[@mrxman581]

San Diego has a good system, but it's nowhere as good as LA Metro. And LA Metro is expanding at a faster pace than SD. I don't think SD has any new lines scheduled to open in the near future.

[@Ruetheworld]

I must not be in the same dimensional timeline as you, because the San Diego trolley system i know is ineffective, inaccessible and poorly distributed across its service area. The blue line runs through Southbay area but does not connect any of it, the majority of all lines are built along freeways, often stranding people in a sea of parking lots and industrial zones, few trips can be completed without also transferring to a bus, the entire uptown area is cutoff from access despite being the most dense residential neighborhoods, and it doesnt provide service to any of SD's main attractions, including no service to the airport, the zoo, Balboa Park, any of the beaches, or hotel circle. Its purely for show, and for hiw much money has been spent and PR given, its basically worthless.

[@albear972]

1:31 LOL! That is *exactly* what happened when the Expo line opened in 2012 bridging the inner areas of L.A. to the affluent city of Santa Monica. Burglaries, shoplifting and street crime skyrocketed in S.M. from the stealing tourists from inner L.A.

[@trustmeimanengineer9809]

Really interesting info, but why does it seem like the entire video is run through a filter that makes it look like I’m staring at it through a screen door? It’s hard on the eyes. Also there’s no need to have various diagrams wiggle around rapidly. I’d love to look at them, but having them jitter makes it difficult and frustrating. Again, it was a very interesting video! I’d suggest adjusting your editing style a bit though. Less is more.

[@adamroderick442]

Talk to me when they have something coming to san pedro from downtown we don't even have train yet

[@robargento7235]

hey that Silverr line xpress bus from San Pedro to Union Station is quite ingenious and super fast,,,you havent used it yet??????????????????????

[@mrtrailesafety]

The explosion took place at 3rd & Fairfax, 1983. I was in a laundromat on 3rd St when it blew.

[@breauxski_101]

Damn over by the grove ?

[@Downey-2000]

We need a light rail on Lakewood Blvd and Rosemead Blvd from Sierra Madre CA north to Long Beach CA south. that's hwy 19. We also need one on Beach Blvd and Azusa Ave hwy 39 from Huntington Beach CA south to Azusa CA north.

[@mrxman581]

They are researching a BRT line along Rosemead/Lakewood corridor. Beach Blvd is in Orange County. Talk to their transit agency.

[@Downey-2000]

@@mrxman581 HWY 19 would be nice.

[@RDTheAwesome]

Why so ominous music?

[@garymussell6543]

Those of us who live in LA always avoid the 405 fwy from the San Fernando Valley or Wilshire Blvd on the West Side. Plenty of ide streets with minimal traffic lights to get you through. But we are sworn to secrecy lest everyone start using them. We let the tourists take the main roads.

[@KOSAMAGAMES]

You see all those train lines? most in the city of Los Angeles? Yea I'd argue those lines count for only 10-20% of the city, The San Fernando Region is largest piece of the CIty of Los Angeles (not the county, for those who mix the two). Also those tax dollars going to help build a part that SFV will never get to use. You could argue most of those people can bus it down that street. But try bussing it from Sylmar or Canoga Park. It's literally impossible! Many of those people commute to LA, so the 405 congestion is here to stay for a long time. Especially with all those new units they just added! :D

[@alex626ification]

For a second, I thought this was going to be about the other purple line.

[@Russell-r7i]

Those Trolleys were the Best. It will take alot to do one better.

[@KrissTheUnicorn]

This TBM reminds me of “The Drill” the fire nation built and was trying to drill through Ba sing Se in the Series Avatar the last air bender ! Haha back in 2006 ? I think ?

[@domtweed7323]

I like trains.

[@GetOutsideYourself]

6:07 IPSUM cameo.

[@linhe6729]

Should've built this 10 years ago.

[@mrxman581]

Agreed, but there was a legal moratorium on subway construction for about 20 years.

[@scottg.g.haller3291]

@01:20 These generated narrations make the goofiest of mistakes. "Trolley" pronounced "Troll--ee". Why wasn't this caught? Is having a functioning human being reading the text so prohibitive?

[@starventure]

They put Westwood east of downtown on the map too. This video is a Chi-com joke.

[@kikeruiz539]

The whole video has mistakes like the explosion in the 80’s was on 3rd and Fairfax not along Wilshire

[@garyhoward2490]

About 35 years ago. LA put in the metrolink train system, using existing tracks. Good idea...but it quickly went badly...and still does. When they started it, it traveled fast enough and efficiently enough to be viable. But...a few "accidents" and people using the trains to self delete. Slowed them waaay down, and if a person was on the train when one of these incidents happened...you were trapped in a crime scene all day. It happened a lot, so people mostly quit using it. Add to that...the homeless sorta used it as a mobile encampment. Heated and dry in winter...AC in summer. The current subways downtown are similar. The commuters won't use it, if there is a piss soaked bum in the next seat, insisting that they give them money. I hear it's the same in other big metro areas...not just LA. Solve that problem, and it will solve many problems...nationwide.

[@emjayay]

While talking about a futuristic monorail the video shows New York City definitely not futuristic subway cars made in the 1970s at 2:02.

[@papagen00]

I am sure residents of Beverly Hills and posh West L.A. are thrilled to see the riff-raff stepping off the Metro trains.

[@bbrebozo6417]

Go visit Santa Monica for a future glimpse at the future of Beverly Hills. Bring rubbers, fecal material on the sidewalks.

[@danmur2797]

Meh, Beverly Hills is okay. Go to Pasadena, San Marino, Calabasas, Arcadia, Pacific Palisades, Bradbury, Palos Verdes Estates, LA Cañada Flintridge, Malibu, Holmby Hills, etc. and you can find equally grand houses and shopping in some. West LA is also not as nice as it once was or people still think it is. Santa Monica has a lot of vagrant issues, traffic, and now empty storefronts. Maybe Century City is still nice. Culver City was mid.

[@juanzamarripa3778]

@@danmur2797 you forgot to mention Bel Air

[@jflow08]

It will always be the Purple and Red lines to me

[@0fficialdregs]

who knew building your large city would cause traffic jams whereas building public transport would free up the highway. who knew

[@jaddyrose9318]

Now we need a line from Van Nuys to Westwood

[@Gankhisprawn]

There's only the little problem of the Santa Monica mountains that separate the two.

[@mrxman581]

That's coming. It's called the Sepulveda Pass line.

[@nickmakestunes]

But will they do anything about people openly smoking meth in metro cars?

[@mrxman581]

Yes. It keeps improving.

[@itsamealex007]

anyone else notice a grid on their TV's? thought my tv was malfunctioning

[@manko717]

All that in an area known for earthquakes? Only in California. Are the same people that dug tunnels under our borders, doing this one. They could probably done it a lot cheaper

[@zzygyy]

No damage during the 1994 quake. Educate yourself on how safe the tunnels are compared to the surface.

[@dante340]

And yet, somehow Japan manages to have one of the most extensive subway networks on earth, despite constant earthquakes.. crazy.

[@Robert-mn2od]

They doing that at VA too 🎉🎉

[@green-user8348]

Is this being paid for by the US government, or a combination of Cal State and the US government?

[@mrxman581]

The majority is being paid by the residents of the city and county of Los Angeles with additional state and federal funding.

[@NOXStellans]

'Still suffers as yet another spoke on a system with no wheel.

[@mrxman581]

Not quite true. There will be a circular path of rail lines soon. Once the K and C lines connect to each other and the LAX airport, you'll be able to go from Union Station, to the A line, to the C line, to the K line, to the E line and back to the A line to Union Station. That will be the first time you can go around a certain part of the city like that. A "wheel" if you will. There will be two more "wheel" configurations in the future with the Northern extension of the C line to the B line. And, one with the Sepulveda line that will connect to the B line in North Hollywood and both the D line and E line when it goes South. In fact, the Sepulveda line is planned to go to LAX, but that's much farther out time wise. The one area where I would like to see a light rail line is down Sunset Blvd to service the East Hollywood area. I would have a connection at the A line Chinatown station and have it go West down Sunset all the all to the Sunset/Vermont B line subway station. It could go underground before it gets to the subway station and add a second level to the station. Similar to the 7th St Metro station in DTLA. That would create another "wheel."

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

Not quite, the K and Sepulvida lines will intersect it eventually, the Sepulvifqa line will cross at UCLA and the K line with cross at a point not yet determined

[@beerussama7093]

Ah so that’s why there’s been one guy digging a hole while ten other guys watch for the last decade.

[@Robert-mn2od]

It can take an hour sometimes to drive.

[@afrazamjad1303]

9.5 billion $ for 7 stations is too much for me at least

[@parislove616]

This video forgot to add a list of politicians who will be pocketing the $9 billion and still not finish the project on time and still request another $9 billion 💀

[@freetrailer4poor]

Musk tried to build a better system for 1/10th the cost. $10 million a mile a tunnel. He got denied by a homeowner group near where he lived, for environmental reasons. Yet these con men get to build worse subway and there is green light. These whole line will be full of drunks and homeless selling you stuff. Unsafe for families. Basically they took Musks boring design and 10xed the price. Unions get rich. City officials get rich and fill campaign coffers running money through Ukraine and Gaza. Everyone else either just pays rent and sent to the homeless concentration camps.

[@danmur2797]

LA Metro has already built over 110 miles of rail line, both light rail and subway since the 1990s. Combined with Metrolink it makes LA metros public transit rail network one of the largest in the country after NYCs. LA Metro has had a lot of additional projects on the board, but lack of funding and established routes made these proposals just proposals for the time being. The Purple Line was one of these--it was originally planned as an extension of the red line. Still while route and funding was secured for that line LA Metro has in the meantime completed or extended many other public transit rail projects in the last 15 years. The good thing is that construction on the Purple Line is now in process, so barring any unexpected events, things should go according to timelines, like other recently completed projects.

[@freetrailer4poor]

@@danmur2797 All over priced with no desire to cut wages and save costs. The subways downtown are scary to use for families and kids. If you ride everyday you will see crimes.

[@mrxman581]

​@freetrailer4poor Not true.

[@danmur2797]

@freetrailer4poor LA has built out a lot of rail with modest funding from the federal government. A new line under construction in NYC is costing $1.2 billion per mile to build. In LA the Purple Line is costing about $400 million per mile to build. LA has been building a lot of miles of track and rail far more efficiently and cost effectively than in other major cities like NYC and London. Compared to emerging nations all costs for building rail in the U.S. are high. But compared to the rest of the U.S., LA has built an extensive network on the cheap.

[@arionodhanis]

Where is TELEPORTATION hadron collider ?

[@Ese_osa]

$9.5B for how many Kilometer

[@edmondjohnson]

This video seems to have been created by a person (or AI?) that has very little local knowledge of Los Angeles.

[@PCLANParty]

La bri tar pits? AI flag

[@samclay2613]

build a circular line like they have in moscow

[@russellarmer-ml1ir]

anybody thought about the effects of earthquakes on these tunnels

[@CarlosVazquez-p4c]

If not a subway, then put a EL instead. It is cheaper and scenery too.

[@poisonpyre8545]

This extension should have been completed DECADES ago. LA Metro needs to do better.

[@davidruelas6611]

they been talking and building that rail line since I was in art school off of wilshire and normandie back in 2008

[@davidzagrodny9486]

Mentions Whilshire Blvd. Shows instead San Vincente Blvd. Fail.