LA Metro Purple Line Phase 2 gets $1.6 billion in federal funding

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Phase 2 of the Los Angeles Metro Purple Line extension project received a total of $1.6+ billion in federal funds last week. I gather there was a push to get the Full Funding Grant Agreement signed off and done before the Obama administration left office. In this case, probably not so much out of concern that the Trump administration would not come through with the FFGA but that a new DOT Secretary and DOT appointees would have to re-review the grants and the process could get stalled for months. (Chicago is getting $1.1 billion in fed funds for its Red and Purple Line modernization project signed off on this week. Big rush before Jan 20).

The important news is that Phase 2 is now funded and with the passage of Measure M, LA Metro is able to advance the start of construction for Phase 3, possibly in 2019.

Railway Age (headline is not counting the $169 million in CMAQ funds): US DOT commits $1.5 billion for LA Purple Line expansion. Excerpts:

Metro received a construction grant agreement for $1.187 billion through the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Capital Investment Grant program and a $307-million loan through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s TIFIA program to total $1.494 billion. The project will also receive $169 million in federal funding through the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality program.

Coupled with Metro’s $747 million local match made possible by 2008’s Measure R sales tax, $2.4 billion is now secured to continue construction of the subway primarily under Wilshire Boulevard that will finally connect downtown Los Angeles and Westwood with service en route to the Miracle Mile, Beverly Hills and Century City.

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Pre-construction activities for the second section are already underway. Major construction is planned to begin in 2018. Completion of the second subway section is anticipated no later than 2026 per the FTA Full Funding Grant Agreement and Metro is aiming to possibly finish the project at an earlier date. A third and final section will extend the subway to the Westwood/VA Hospital. Construction on this last section is planned to begin as early as 2019.
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Good news for building out an extended rail transit system in LA over the next 10+ years.
 

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