Big decisions affecting Rancho Park, Cheviot Hills and the entire Westside are slated for Friday, March 18. They involve the Expo Line, and its two Rancho Park stations. Up for consideration is whether to use city funds to elevate the Sepulveda Blvd station and whether a park or parking lot will be built at the Westwood Blvd. station.
The double header begins in the morning when the LA City Council will take up a motion brought by Councilmembers Paul Koretz and Bill Rosendahl to use monies ($5 million) from the West LA Traffic Improvement Mitigation Plan (TIMP) to fund grade separation at Sepulveda Blvd.
The following details and explanations come from Sarah Hays at Light Rail for Cheviot
"Both the options for an at-grade crossing and for a bridge at Sepulveda were cleared in the FEIR, with the cost difference given as $13 million at the time. Because of the need to acquire private property for the at-grade option, the difference in cost has now been reduced to $5 million, and Koretz and Rosendahl feel that this would be a good use of traffic mitigation funds. Sepulveda is a designated alternate route for the 405 Freeway; though the Department of Transportation has accepted that the at-grade option would function in normal traffic conditions, it has expressed concerns about the not-so-abnormal conditions when the 405 is blocked.
In the afternoon the Expo Board will meet and vote on the following:
- a vote to ratify the design-build contract with Skanska - Rados for Phase II of the Expo Line.
Over at CityWatch, Ken Alpern makes the case that using city funds to elevate the line at Sepulveda provides a way to control the scope of the Casden development at that location. (Are we really getting a Target?) Also, be sure to check out this Expo-related storyby our own Enhager.
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