From the LA Daily News: ...After much anticipation, LA Metro presented the cost estimates for the first time at its recent online informational meeting on the project that would connect the two biggest suburban regions of Los Angeles. It offers an alternative to driving the congested 405 Freeway between West LA and Van Nuys/Sherman Oaks and roads and freeways between the Valley and UCLA. The first monorail alternative would cost $15.4 billion but does not include a station at UCLA. Passengers must ride a bus from the from D Line (Purple)’s Westwood/VA Station to UCLA. Alternative 3, also a monorail, includes a 3.4-mile monorail tunnel that provides a one-seat ride to UCLA by way of an underground monorail station located beneath the UCLA Luskin Center. It would cost $20.8 billion.
Alternative 4, mostly underground rail but includes four aerial stations in the San Fernando Valley, comes in at $20 billion, while the others, alternatives 5 and 6 are all underground rail and would cost $24.2 billion and $24.4 billion, respectively. All would have underground stations at UCLA...
Full story at https://www.dailynews.com/2025/05/23/la-metro-releases-costs-for-sepulveda-pass-project-alternatives-sets-more-informational-meetings/.
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