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Attention Metro D Line riders: A 70-day closure is imminent
L.A. Metro crews are testing tracks at the forthcoming Wilshire and La Cienega D Line stop.
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Los Angeles Metro’s D Line (the purple one) will be closed from May 17 to July 25 to complete the first leg of the extension. Three new D Line stops should be ready for riders later this year.
Why: Metro said in a blog post that the closure will allow crews to extend “communication and power systems” from the present end of the subway to the three stops comprising the first phase of the extension.
Riders who use the D Line can take Metro buses or the B Line during the closure.
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What’s the extension: The D Line currently runs from Union Station in downtown L.A. to Wilshire and Western, a stop in Koreatown near the Wiltern. Metro broke ground on the D Line extension project more than 10 years ago. Once completed, the project will add seven additional stops after Wilshire and Western. The first three of those should be open in the fall of 2025. Those stops, spanning nearly 4 miles, will be at:
- Wilshire and La Brea
- Wilshire and Fairfax
- Wilshire and La Cienega
The four remaining stops will bring the end of the line into Westwood. The entire extension should be ready to ride sometime in 2027.
Once complete, the D Line extension will take riders from downtown L.A. to Westwood.
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Transportation options in the meantime: The B Line (the red one) will run at 8 minute intervals. It usually runs every 12 minutes. The B and D Lines share stops between Wilshire and Vermont and Union Station. Metro will connect the remainder of the D Line — the stops at Vermont, Normandie and Western — with a shuttle bus. So if you usually take the D Line to get to the B Line, this shuttle is your best bet. There are no planned service changes to the 720 and 20 bus routes, which run along Wilshire.
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