Disney Hall - Downtown Los Angeles
When complete, the Subway to the Sea will serve one of the densest population and employment corridors in Los Angeles County – the Wilshire Corridor - and the highest concentration of major activity centers in the region. The Subway to the Sea will improve access for all Angelinos to the opportunities and amenities of a re-emerging Downtown Los Angeles while making the beaches of the Pacific Ocean more easily accessible to the region.
MacArthur Park
The Wilshire Corridor not only includes Downtown Los Angeles and all its economic activity and expanding cultural amenities, it also includes MacArthur Park, Koreatown, the Wiltern Theater, the Fairfax District, the Miracle Mile, possibly West Hollywood, the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art and the La Brea Tar Pits, Beverly Hills, Century City, Westwood and the University of California (UCLA), West Los Angeles, the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica and, finally, the Pacific Ocean.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Subway to the Sea Coalition will continue Los Angeles's commitment to our transit-dependent workforce providing them with new mobility and expanding access to new job opportunities. A modern, efficient, reliable and affordable transit system is essential to their lives as well as their livelihoods. It will enable many workers to easily and efficiently access the job-rich Westside, expanding horizons and opportunities, as well as ease access for them to our beautiful coast and its beaches without need to drive.
It would be hard to imagine a transit system with more to offer its users!
Santa Monica Pier
Still, the Subway to the Sea will not be a new system. Rather it will be the completion of a system whose first phase has been operating successfully in Los Angeles County since 2000. Already that system serves 40 million riders per year. MTA's very conservative preliminary analysis projects boardings for the Subway to the Sea that far exceeds projected riders on any alternative, and is among the highest number of boardings per million dollars invested of any alternative investment now being considered.