Downtown Los Angeles
The Subway to the Sea, when joined with other transit investments, is an essential element of the solution to these significant challenges that threaten our environment, our communities, and our economy. Los Angeles County needs to make a major commitment to expanding our interconnected multi-technology transit system and accompany that system with transit and pedestrian-oriented land use policies that support it.
MTA Red Line
The Subway to the Sea is a vital part of that effort. From the current terminus of the Red Line at Wilshire Blvd. and Western Ave., heading west along the Wilshire corridor to Beverly Hills, Century City, Westwood and the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, this subway will form the essential high-capacity trunk line, interconnecting with a vastly improved transit bus system and an expanding network of light rail lines. The Subway to the Sea will provide essential new capacity on our most congested corridor and enhance the utilization and efficiency of our existing transit systems to provide all of the communities of Los Angeles County with safe, efficient, reliable and affordable transit access to most of the major employment, educational, recreational, commercial and cultural destinations of the Southland.
MTA Red Line
The Subway to the Sea must not stand alone. We must also expand our commitment to a clean, modern, efficient bus system that serves all of our communities and major boulevards. We must expand our growing roster of higher capacity fixed-guideway bus rapid transit systems, such as the Orange Line in the San Fernando Valley. We must complete the light-rail systems under construction to East Los Angeles and along the Exposition Corridor from Downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica, and select and develop a high capacity transit system along Crenshaw Blvd. And more.
It is essential that we also encourage communities to adopt land use policies that facilitate transit and pedestrian-oriented mixed-use development along transportation corridors. Such policies will ensure our community members full access to jobs and services whether they choose to take transit, bike, walk, or drive.
A real and major commitment to public transit in Los Angeles County is essential to our future. The Subway to the Sea is emblematic of that commitment, an investment whose time has come, an opportunity we cannot let pass.
Map of Possible Subway to the Sea System (enlarge - new window)
