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

Los Angeles is building The Purple Line - a brand new metro mega project to ease congestion. The new railway line is an insane piece of engineering designed under a heavily congested city. Today we explore the construction behind LA's new metro rail system.
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[@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?

[@NicholasHarsin]

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

[@Tiredgeek]

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

[@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

[@mi12no]

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

[@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

[@glentonrichards]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@Gymshark_SurgicalTech]

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

[@nvmcrider8475]

Connecting Skid Row to Beverley Hills is a great way to open the area to Urban Camping.

[@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

[@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…

[@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

[@p.ipebomb]

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

[@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.

[@markhoffman4264]

I know the moment I stepped foot in the LA subway system, the big one would hit. So glad San Diego kept their trolley above ground

[@eriklakeland3857]

Japan seems to manage just fine with underground trains in a more seismically active region.

[@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.

[@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???

[@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.

[@beerussama7093]

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

[@mclovin240o9]

South LA still waiting for potholes to be filled

[@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.

[@Oppatwunk]

B1M with no care for proofreading- wild

[@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

[@hiroshi138]

No one will ride it unless there's armed security on board.

[@user-yb9vk3dv6h]

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

[@-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.

[@chorlauheung4920]

It's pronounced la bray ah!!

[@tonytorre9432]

Waiting for the Big One.

[@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.

[@bjoon]

China built an intercity rail NETWORK with less than that, and they're already done a decade ago while starting much latter than this line, which will look aged by the time is open...

[@love4lyfe51]

China will also confiscate your house in order to build it. And not pay you anything.

[@jaceyc9418]

They have been working on it for over 20 years now... I doubt they can finish this before the LA Olympic in 2028. Other nations have been finishing a subway line within 3 years or so, even without these "engineer marvels."

[@mrxman581]

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

[@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).

[@philpots48]

I wonder how does the system deal with earthquakes?

[@OriginalJetForMe]

"400 feet longIpsum" :D

[@Fallingstar-yy5iv]

If the criminals ride the train, its a 9.5 Billion dollar waste of money

[@0fficialdregs]

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

[@DouglasSalguero-qh2sd]

Why not make them a longer

[@rkgsd]

Great, so the LA Metro train station murders that have been happening above ground can continue underground.

[@davidruelas6611]

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

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

Better add more armed security until the wave of violence on the Metro is put to an end.

[@happytomeetyou2047]

I can not wait for this

[@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

[@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

[@itsamealex007]

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

[@lamaderarobles]

9 billion for one street in a city of 15 million... what an absolute misuse of public money

[@ace7467]

Traffic will still be the same

[@timbeach2409]

Just where I want to be, in a subway deep underground in earthquake city. NOPE !!!!!

[@eme232]

What about south central?

[@matthewjgonzalez82]

🦗🦗🦗

[@domtweed7323]

I like trains.

[@d.fenestrator9529]

If I'm going to get stabbed on public transportation, which is commonplace these days in LA, I prefer to be above ground. At least I can see the sun or moon as I die lying on the street as people walk by filming me instead of calling 911.

[@antoniahamilton3201]

Drama queen.

[@donaldperea7069]

These underground tunnels are a death trap. I dont care how much faster they are or how convenient they... I'll stick with driving my car 🚗

[@jasonlarsen3515]

Sorry I watched this and added to view count.

[@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.

[@user-kl9ip6mj6v]

Govt’s solution for us! No more cars, just for the elite.

[@OriginalJetForMe]

Man, the screen effect, shaky cam, and dramatic music are way too much.

[@stewartsmith1947]

So smart to build in earthquake country !

[@dante340]

Japan has far more frequent/ stronger earthquakes than California does and they still manage to have an incredibly extensive subway network.

[@objvst]

EARTHQUAKE, Subway's are a great idea and move people faster. BUT, what happens after the next big earthquake and people get trapped under all the rubble and many die. Will all the subways that exist be shutdown because the are to dangerous in light of earthquakes or the risk is worth the lost live because of the transportation benefit. Please reply?

[@HammerOn-bu7gx]

STOP WITH THE JITTERY CAMERA MOTION!

[@afrazamjad1303]

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

[@msferz9177]

I am never going on public transporation in the LA area. Never ever ever ever.

[@stewartsmith1947]

Go to Moscow and look at their METRO !

[@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

[@2-old-Forthischet]

New opportunities for crime. Even politicians won't ride these things.

[@russdewolf5554]

Complains about idling at a red light on Wilshire, shows traffic jam in Sao Paulo. Seems legit.

[@1pasara]

What about all the homeless people that live in the trains and the insecurity of if you’re gonna get mugged or not the whole,time you ride it

[@arionodhanis]

Where is TELEPORTATION hadron collider ?

[@joseramirez7508]

It will bring more crime to the nice areas

[@randygravel2057]

How many murders in the first year?

[@dante340]

LA's murder rate is actually relatively quite lower compared to a lot of other US cities. It's not even in the top 20. You're much more likely to fall victim to theft/ property crime in LA

[@randygravel2057]

@@dante340 I’m gonna need just a number.

[@iMetaTV]

can we have no homeless on public transit we get the countries homeless

[@treygarvey]

Your computerized narrator needs to pronounce La Brea phonetically as "Lah Bray-Uh" and not as 'Lah Bree".

[@orion7763]

Speaking of the monorail plan-- the company that proposed building it Los Angeles offered to built it FOR FREE as a demonstration of a public transit system. Still, Los Angeles turned it down. The decisions made by mid-century Los Angeles city managers were one mistake after another. METRO is now considering a multi-billion-dollar monorail line through the Sepulveda Pass to connect the Valley to the Westside.

[@Geotpf]

Hopefully they go for another heavy rail subway instead, which is another option for that project that is far superior for a wide variety of reasons.

[@kdlange6052]

Who’s going to ride this so much crime in Los Angeles and especially on “public “ transportation 3 stabbing just a few days ago

[@heartbraker86]

I rather still drive

[@firianto]

Nice homeless shelter

[@alias451]

Bad B1M ai generated knock-off

[@gregdelong1539]

Really good video, thanks.

[@ANTONIOMunoz-ly2oe]

10

[@Network126]

Fix homelessness first!!! I lost my housing twice during the pandemic and still can't get off the streets yet!!!! I'm living in a Toyota Sienna now!!!

[@dustybricks113]

Not going to work...😅😊

[@user-dm4qg4tc9c]

Give half that money to the Hamas Boring Company and they will tunnel the subway in one year and throw in another subway to San Diego for free.

[@DanielGarcia-kv8zx]

The city is awful the trash the potholes the homeless & the horrible traffic from out of the city why would you only build a subway for places within the city smh

[@davedthomson]

It’s La Brea and is pronounced La Braiya, NOT La Bree.

[@jordanjohnson9866]

Nah. Not to the Pacific Ocean. Not oo the Pacific Ocean and more. /

[@noa670]

The homeless will love this

[@bella_testastretta]

finally a new home for the homeless people

[@FerNando-ys5hc]

Misleading infos B1M is better than him

[@mikasd9]

What a massive waste of money

[@NicholasHarsin]

This guy has no idea what he’s talking about and has probably never been to Los Angeles. “Idling at a red line on Wilshire” - what? The red line is a metro (subway) line. You don’t “idle” on a train.

[@dante340]

....he said red LIGHT, genius

[@NicholasHarsin]

@@dante340 he sure didn't. Listen again.

[@factchecker6674]

Great...another homeless shelter.

[@OC_RAIDERS13]

Stop funding these types of new builds and fix the damn streets that are all messed up. A 9.5 billion dollar will help the community. We definitely don't need a damn underground subway transportation.. people are getting stabbed at subways. No need for subways stations

[@hogsworld]

its going to be ruined by homeIess people and griefers. there is no class in california anymore. lol

[@Pernection]

Earthquakes

[@jimmyjohn6479]

you’re aware a subway line already exist there right?

[@freetrailer4poor]

What a boondoggle Musk wanted to build a tunnel for $10 million a mile and the train would go 150 mph. The only question who is getting rich. All these metro subways and trains are unsafe for families.

[@mustang131radio]

The homeless will have more options now.

[@Owenactor]

There's no point if you can't currently use the subway because it's too dangerous.

[@djdave9598]

TRUE!

[@joshuarhines1298]

Reparations!

[@kyle-commentsonbullsh_it]

You all built a $10 billion tunnel for the homeless. You really love them huh. Oh oh I see... for a train. Yeah right.

[@Trojan0304]

Who wants to ride Crime magnet Metro