Metro - File #: 2025-0575

• File #: 2025-0575
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 7/9/2025
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 9/17/2025
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE status update on the additional Mid-City technical analysis and community engagement for the K Line Northern Extension (KNE) Project.
• Sponsors: Program Management (Department), Maria Luk
• Indexes: Alignment, Budgeting, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Construction, Crenshaw Northern Extension, Crenshaw Northern Extension (Meas M) (Project), Division 16, Easements, Environmental Impact Report, Hollywood, Hollywood/Highland Station, Housing, Informational Report, Lafayette Square, Leimert Park, Los Angeles City Council District 10, Maintenance, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail B Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Rail K Line, Mid City, Project, Project delivery, Property values, Research, Safety, Subsurface easement, Surveys, Technical reports, Travel time, West Adams, West Hollywood, Westside Cities subregion, Westside/Central Service Sector, Wilshire/La Brea Station, Zoning

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: K LINE NORTHERN EXTENSION PROJECT UPDATE

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE status update on the additional Mid-City technical analysis and community engagement for the K Line Northern Extension (KNE) Project.

Issue
ISSUE

This report provides an update on the KNE project. It highlights recent technical analysis and community engagement conducted in response to public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The Draft EIR was released July 23, 2024, for a 60-day review under CEQA, which closed on September 20, 2024.

Background
BACKGROUND

The K Line Northern Extension Project (Project), formerly known as the Crenshaw Northern Extension, is a proposed fully underground light rail project that would close a regional rail transit gap in the Metro system and transform how people travel in Los Angeles County. With the implementation of the Project, the K Line would become a regional north/south transit spine connecting to four major east/west rail lines (C, E, D and B). In addition to providing regional benefits, the Project would deliver local benefits to underserved communities in the study area plagued by congested roadways and long travel times, thus improving access to jobs, medical centers, and cultural destinations.

Project History
Transit feasibility studies for a north-south transit corridor connecting LAX to central Los Angeles County date back to the 1990s and have evolved over the years from the 2001 Crenshaw-Prairie Corridor Major Investment Study, followed by the 2009 Wilshire/La Brea Light Rail Study and more recent studies through 2020 of a northern extension of the K Line, summarized in Appendix 2-A of the Draft EIR. Measure M allocated $2.24 billion (in 2015 dollars) to the project and identified 2041 as the ground-breaking year when project funds would be available for construction and...