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July 11, 2007
Wilshire Subway Takes Another Step Today
Today in the House Committee on Appropriations, a transportation funding bill for Fiscal year 2008 was voted on and passed. It included our Purple Line, the subway that is planned and dreamed on for Wilshire Blvd. Unfortunately, it appears that the bill will not fund the project, but rather does something else of bureaucratic importance: it repeals language written in 1986 by Congress to ban subway tunneling along Wilshire.
"Metro is deeply appreciative of Congressman Waxman’s efforts to include this language reversing the subway tunneling ban in the House version of the transportation funding bill," Santa Monica Councilwoman and Metro Boad Chair, Pam O'Connor, said today in a statement. "We look forward to having this provision included in the final transportation funding bill that is signed into law later this year."
The Senate Appropriations Committee is expected to consider its transportation spending bill for Fiscal year 2008 tomorrow.
Photo by Hagoody via Flickr
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Funny they thank Congressman Waxman. It's because of his efforts some decades ago that the federal support for subway tunneling in "methane zones" was ever included. He claims it was due to concerns over the explosion at Ross Dress for Less at Fairfax and 3rd.
However, it's pretty clear it was more concern of rich people of Hancock Park everything west of there that poor people be able to quickly and easily get to their hood on a subway.
Same reason the BART system stopped in SF and didn't got Marin or San Mateo.
Now all that's changed and people realize that we need subways to help alleviate congestion.
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I CAN HAS SUBWAI?
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Yay!