Overview
- Metro’s board, which plans to vote this week, is weighing the San Vicente–Fairfax route with three West Hollywood stops and a Hollywood Bowl terminus that staff estimate could draw about 60,000 daily trips.
- Agency staff returned with a modified plan after $2.3 million in extra study and outreach, offering deeper tunneling and fewer underground easements to limit surface disruption in nearby neighborhoods.
- The recommended option carries an estimated cost near $15 billion against $2.2 billion set aside in Measure M, and West Hollywood is pursuing a tax-increment district to direct future property-tax growth to construction without raising rates.
- Residents in Lafayette Square continue to object, citing fears about vibration, property values, and noise, along with anger over a planned demolition of their only Ralphs grocery and a pharmacy.
- Political pressure has risen as Mayor Karen Bass met with community members and board member Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, who lives in Lafayette Square, recused herself from deliberations over a perceived conflict.