Red Line gets boost.Local transit officials on June 29 approved funding for major studies of a proposed Red Line subway extension to the ocean, a light rail connector through downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or and a tunnel for the northward extension of the Long Beach (710) Freeway, among other projects. The board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted to approve a "major investment study" of the long-proposed 13.2-mile Red Line subway extension from the current terminus at Western Avenue to the ocean. The line would be built in two segments costing about $2.5 billion each: one to Century City and the other from Century City to Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. . The MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. board also voted to study a proposed $723 million "'regional connector" that would go underneath downtown Los Angeles, hooking up the Long Beach Blue Line, the Pasadena Gold Line, the Eastside Extension now under construction and the Exposition light rail line slated to begin construction later this year. Among the 19 other studies approved by the MTA board was one for a controversial tunnel project that would extend the Long Beach (710) Freeway from its current terminus at Valley Boulevard Valley Boulevard is a street in Southern California, United States, running east from Los Angeles to Pomona, where it becomes Holt Boulevard, and a continuation from Fontana to Colton. It generally parallels Interstate 10 and State Route 60, and is the original alignment of U.S. in Alhambra to the Foothill (210) Freeway in Pasadena. Residents of South Pasadena South Pasadena (păs'ədē`nə), city (1990 pop. 23,936), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1888. Medical supplies, clothing, and transportation and electronic equipment are manufactured. have for decades resisted attempts for a surface extension. |
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