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File #: 2025-0864   
Type: Project Status: Filed
File created: 9/25/2025 In control: Construction Committee
On agenda: 10/15/2025 Final action: 10/23/2025
Title: AMEND the Life-of-Project (LOP) budget for the Purple (D Line) Extension Project Section 1 (Project) by $154,000,000 from $3,353,879,593 to $3,507,879,593 using the fund sources as summarized in Attachment A and consistent with the provisions of the Board-adopted Measure R and Measure M Unified Cost Management Policy (Attachment B).
Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
Indexes: Beverly Hills, Budget, Budgeting, Capital Project, Capital Project Funds, Construction, Construction management, Contractors, Contracts, Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project, Design build, Division 20, Economic benefits, Funding plan, Los Angeles International Airport, Maintenance of way, Maintenance practices, Measure M, Measure R, Measure R and Measure M Unified Cost Management Policy, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail B Line, Metro Rail C Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Rail E Line, Metro Rail K Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Non-revenue Vehicles, Operations and Maintenance, Plan, Policy, Policy analysis, Professional Services, Project, Project management, Proposition C, Regional Connector Transit Corridor Project, Safety, Southern California Association Of Governments, Testing, Travel time, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative, Westside Cities subregion, Westside Subway Ext (Project), Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 1, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 2, Westside Subway Extension/Purple Line Extension Phase 3, Westside/Central Service Sector, Wilshire/Fairfax Station, Wilshire/La Brea Station, Wilshire/La Cienega Station
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - Funding Expenditure Plan, 2. Attachment B - Measure R and Measure M Unified Cost Management Policy, 3. Attachment C - Projected Breakdown of Cost Allocation for $154 Million, 4. Presentation
Meeting_Body
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 15, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: PURPLE (D LINE) EXTENSION PROJECT SECTION 1

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AMEND the Life-of-Project (LOP) budget for the Purple (D Line) Extension Project Section 1 (Project) by $154,000,000 from $3,353,879,593 to $3,507,879,593 using the fund sources as summarized in Attachment A and consistent with the provisions of the Board-adopted Measure R and Measure M Unified Cost Management Policy (Attachment B).

Issue
ISSUE

The Project has reached the final year of its anticipated ten-year duration and has entered the systems integration and testing phase. This Board action requests an increase to the Life-of-Project (LOP) budget which encompasses a settlement agreement with the design/build contractor, Skanska Traylor Shea (STS) that resolves all outstanding contract disputes and updates milestone completion dates. The increase also provides funding for other professional service contracts impacted by schedule extensions. Remaining contingency is limited but expected to be sufficient to support the final closeout of the Project.

Background
BACKGROUND

Section 1 of the nine-mile Purple (D Line) Extension Project represents the initial phase of three sections, all part of Metro's Measure R Program. This section, entirely underground, encompasses the construction of approximately 3.92 miles of double-track heavy rail subway and introduces three new stations: Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax, and Wilshire/La Cienega. Additionally, it includes the procurement of 34 heavy rail vehicles and the construction of a Maintenance-of-Way and Non-Revenue Vehicle Building at the south end of the existing Division 20 Yard (Location 64).

Wilshire/La Brea and Wilshire/Fairfax fall under the jurisdiction of the City of Los Angeles, while the Wilshire/La Cienega Station is within the jurisdiction of the City of Beverly Hills.

On July 24, 2014, the Board approved ...

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