Above is some fresh video of excavation work in the future Wilshire/Fairfax Station on the first section of the Purple Line Extension that runs for 3.9 miles between Wilshire/Western and [continue reading]
Introducing the new tunnel boring machines, Elsie and Soyeon! They're named after incredible pioneering women in STEM and they’re getting to work expanding the Metro Purple Line west under Wilshire! [continue reading]
Friendly reminder: there will be a live webcast beginning at 6:30 p.m. of the public hearing on Thursday for the Division Portal Widening and Turnback Facility Project. This is the project that speed up the turnaround time for subway trains at Union Station and help add capacity to the line — [continue reading]
Dept. of Taylor Swift: 7th and Metro Center makes a cameo in her new video. Dept. of Elon Musk: Yeah, he gets his own department on the Source. This thread [continue reading]
Metro joined local, state and federal officials today to break ground on Section 2 of the Metro Purple Line Extension Project that will add 2.6-miles of new subway service to [continue reading]
To maintain the Metro Rail System, the agency has numerous buildings that its riders never enter but are crucial to moving them across the county. One of these structures is [continue reading]
With the turning of the calendar, we thought it would be a good time to provide an update on one of our key transit projects: the nine-mile extension of the [continue reading]
Metro is inviting students from kindergarten through 12th grade to participate in an art and naming contest for the two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) that will dig the twin subway tunnels to connect three underground stations of Section 1 of the Purple Line Extension. The contest is divided into two [continue reading]
Weekend street closures at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue for the construction of the Purple Line Extension subway has been completed five weekends earlier than originally scheduled — even after [continue reading]
When is the earliest the Purple Line Extension will open? Metro CEO Phil Washington has said that the agency is aiming to open the entire project to Westwood by 2024 [continue reading]
