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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
JANUARY 19, 2023
Subject
SUBJECT: INGLEWOOD TRANSIT CONNECTOR PROJECT
Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to enter into a Master Cooperative Agreement with the City of Inglewood (the "COI") for the Inglewood Transit Connector Project (the "Project").
Issue
ISSUE
The COI has begun preliminary engineering for a 1.6-mile long, three station, fully elevated, electrically powered automated transit system (ATS) called the Inglewood Transit Connector Project (Project). A key component of the Project will be a pedestrian bridge structure (PBS) that will connect its station at Market Street/Florence Avenue to the Downtown Inglewood Station of the Crenshaw/LAX Line ("K Line").
Metro and COI have coordinated extensively to develop the Draft Final Master Cooperative Agreement (Attachment A). This agreement sets guidelines for cooperation and efficient coordination between the parties that will define how the two agencies interact and manage such items as real estate, right-of-way, design, construction, communications, reporting, achieving substantial completion, safety, quality, progress through systems testing, and pre-revenue phases.
Background
BACKGROUND
As identified by the Los Angeles County Assessor's 2020 Annual Report, the City of Inglewood is the fastest growing city in Los Angeles County (13.6% growth in the last year), with exponential growth in housing and regional employment opportunities. This rapid economic revitalization and historic transformation, with projected significant increases in population, housing, and employment density over the next 20 years, will significantly affect mobility within the COI and surrounding subregion. As such, it is important that COI's residents and visitors have a direct means of connecting to Metro's K line and its Downtown Inglewood Station.
To improve transit access and mobility for its resid...
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