Metro - File #: 2018-0236

• File #: 2018-0236
• Type: Contract
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 4/24/2018
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 7/26/2018
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE the Crenshaw Northern Extension Feasibility/Alternatives Analysis Study Report (Attachment D).
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: 7th Street/Metro Center Station, Activity centers, Alignment, Alternatives analysis, Budgeting, City of Los Angeles, Contracts, Crenshaw Northern Extension, Crenshaw Northern Extension (Meas M) (Project), Crenshaw Station, Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project, Expo/Crenshaw Station, Feasibility analysis, Hollywood, Hollywood/Highland Station, Koreatown, Light rail transit, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles International Airport, Measure M, Metro Crenshaw Line, Metro Exposition Line, Metro Green Line, Metro Purple Line, 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 Red Line, Mid City, Miracle Mile, Olympic games, Outreach, Project, Project delivery, Ridership, Transfers, Travel time, Venice, West Hollywood, Westside Cities subregion, Westside/Central Service Sector, Wilshire/Vermont Station
• Related files: 2018-0502

Meeting_Body
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
JULY 26, 2018


Subject
SUBJECT: CRENSHAW NORTHERN EXTENSION

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE the Crenshaw Northern Extension Feasibility/Alternatives Analysis Study Report (Attachment D).

Issue
ISSUE

The Crenshaw Northern Extension is a Measure M project with a groundbreaking date of Fiscal Year (FY) 2041, project completion date of FY2047 and a funding allocation of $2.24 billion (2015$). A Feasibility/Alternatives Analysis Study has been completed, which yielded five potential alignment alternatives. Targeted stakeholder and elected officials outreach regarding the Study outcomes has been undertaken to date, which provided valuable feedback. A key outcome of the Study was the finding that all the alternatives studied exceed the funding allocation, some by approximately double. Broader public/stakeholder outreach is needed to obtain input on these five alignments, along with potential additional technical study, to prepare the project for subsequent environmental review.

Staff will return in September with a work plan of next steps, in consultation with cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood, essential local partners for this project.

Background
BACKGROUND

A northern extension of the Crenshaw Line was first identified as a part of planning studies for the Crenshaw/LAX Line project in 2009. Studies at that time considered an extension of the Crenshaw/LAX Line north of the Expo Line, to the Metro Purple Line on Wilshire Boulevard, with the potential to ultimately extend farther north to the Metro Red Line in Hollywood via West Hollywood. Funding for the extension was not identified at the time and therefore the northern terminus of the Crenshaw/LAX Project was set at the Exposition/Crenshaw Station; further studies of the northern extension were deferred.
In February 2016, the Crenshaw Northern Extension was included in the Chief Executive Officer's "Op...