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What's Happening on Slauson Avenue? | Slauson Avenue Train Track Construction | Rail to River Path
Earlier this year, construction workers ripped out the old railroad tracks along Slauson Avenue and replaced them with, well, nothing yet. Why? Because South LA’s about to see a project that was has been 10 years in the making.
This is the South Los Angeles / South Central Rail-to-River development.
Slauson Avenue is a major east and west thoroughfare that runs right through the middle of South LA. 6.4 miles of the street, between Slauson and Long Beach Avenues and Slauson Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard, there was an unused train railing that occupied the north part of the street.
First proposed by Los Angeles Metro Board members Mark Ridley-Thomas and Gloria Molina in 2012, The Rail-to-River project has been discussed as one of several ways to transform industrial blight into usable transportation space.
This is the same philosophy that has inspired the The Whittier Greenway Trail-or even The High Line in New York City.
In 2014, the Metro Board of Directors allocated $2.8 million to begin studying and designing the project - ridley-thomas....
Currently the Rail-to-River project is divided into two segments: A and B. Segment A, which is between Long Beach Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard will be completed first. - www.metro.net/...
Segment A is current under construction - www.metro.net/...
By 2015, the Los Angeles Metro Board was hard at work securing funds for this development, and it secured a United States Department of Transportation awarded Metro a $15 million grant to start the project. - la.streetsblog...
And in 2017, the LA Streets Blog reported that the project would be ready to break ground in the middle of 2018, and was planned to be finished by 2019, just in time with the K Line. - la.streetsblog...
The Rail to River project was delayed because of funding and over-budget proposals - la.streetsblog...
New sustainable multi-purpose center is on the way - www.the-new-ni...