The Purple Line - LA's $9.5BN New Metro 

It is awful, but getting used to the traffic and freeways is not insurmountable. If you're not comfortable with the freeways and their multiple lanes, you can always take surface streets. Surface streets might take a little longer to get to your destination due to traffic lights and stops, but it you might find it easier and less hectic. Los Angeles is a great city with much to offer, so please come and enjoy the plentiful sights and attractions.

"We are to visit"? What's up Mao, how are things in Beijing?

​@SWExplore Take the LA Metro, especially for sites well served by it, which are numerous and no need to deal with traffic or paying for parking. You'll also discover many interesting things you miss by only driving.

@@mrxman581 True, true. Very good suggestion.

Unlike Boston it's easy to understand aka semi grid and it's not as dense pack aggro like NYC but at commute hours it's pretty stupid. In the 70s and 80s idiot drivers would barely ever get honked at, pretty laid back; today they get shot - a tougher room, different crowd and a lot more of them otr since the 70s. 😎👀

I'm also wondering what "troleys" ran there (1:23). 🤣🤣🤣 Are they streetcars for trolls?

Asinine video made by someone who’s never been to LA.

@@FluffyNicholas Spoken by AI... lol surprised people fall for it.

@@FluffyNicholas and so many misspellings.

I’m aware of this mistake too even to living 8nLA for a few years now!!

Great point. But do you think it will make a difference? Metro is unsafe and more people are working remote now

@@F22dtmerout of fear, akak peopel us8ng cowardice for profits sake, except those with courage alike myself and the homeless and those with hope!

Elon musk wanted his tunnels buts till not enough to the mas traffic, we also need hovercars too and underground space for more bu8dking expansions, and way to build train lines faster, and include everyone’s ideas all at once, even to voices I’ve heard in LA+ train line under oil filed to close down tiny parkland akak Inglewood and 1/4 commercial expansion there too + solar roadways form Colorado, atom formers from NY etc

Culver city to cerritos is a 30mins drive but with traffic I spend 2 hours on the drive home

@@artprado3466 even as placing a elelvated bove level road expansion to house mre traffic + undergound tunnel below existing road to 3x move vehcles but 90% reduced traffic, also on other highwasy inbetween other major cities

As LA wags say, "the LA la brea tar pits", translates to "the LA the tar tar pits".

It’s A.I. voice

They're becoming more and more common, most just have a 1000 views or so. Always sad to see comments that are clearly from real people underneath them too

You can tell it’s AI generated because the speech sounds dry and the tone empty. While I appreciate technological advancements, I don’t want AI replacing everything that humans do

That's what RU-vid has degenerated into. I live in L.A., watch stuff like this, and get irritated with all the mispronounced words and video that seems to be randomly plucked from cities on the other side of the planet.

Yea, that made me laugh when I saw it. 😂

Took out the “Lorem” but left the “Ipsum” from placeholder text.

Me too. I wondered why on earth they kept flashing NYC's MTA in the beginning of the video. Quickly, it dawned on me: oh, this is AI bot sh*t.

Same here. I believe it's the thumb nail and the font, blue tile they used.

The Temu version of B1M😅

Same

Yeah its annoying.

Agreed I got duped as well this is the new A.I. Clickbait, will I be liking and subscribing? In a word NO…

How about focus on the content, the facts, and don't worry so much about whether it's AI or not. The important thing is what is being covered.

@@danmur2797 Wrong. It grates on my nerves. Sorry.

@@larry4111 it's not wrong. That is your opinion which you are entitled to. Those with longer attention spans can follow though.

Considering it's a subway, it hasn't been that long. Funding and final route decisions were being determined for a few years. In the meantime LA Metro has built out quite an extensive network of other rail lines both light rail and subway.

The LA Metro rail transit infrastructure projects have NOTHING to do with LA hosting the Olympics. LA actually lost out to the Olympics they originally wanted, which were the 2024 games. LA was given the 2028 games as a consolation. All the current LA Metro projects were o planned and approved way before the games were awarded. However, the city has leveraged hosting the games to speed up the completion of some of the projects to hopefully get them done in time for the Olympics. So, the Olympics are being used to speed up transit projects that were already in the works. They weren't projects started because of the games.

​@@mrxman581 Same in Paris where many mistakenly link the Grand Paris Express project (and others) to the Olympics even though the GPE was decided well before the Olympics were even awarded or thought about. They were also used to boost some development phases but they never were the reason for the transit system's expansion (especially in a city so reliant on its massive transit system). To the point that, to cope with delays caused by the 2020 mayhem, it was decided to prioritize the most important and urgent parts for the locals and to delay half of what the Olympic committee would have liked to rely on. A first batch has opened in the past weeks and another batch is opening in June next month, that would amount to about 35km (21-22 miles) of new lines this year, mostly deep underground. A first 35km section of the giant underground M15 loop line circling around Paris core will open in fall 2025, then another large section or 2 every year till 2030-2032.

@@mrxman581 LA was doing a lot of metro projects before the olympics, but I wouldn't say it has "NOTHING" to do with it. Metro and the various cities in LA county want to look good to the world and they realize that a lot of people will be visiting without cars, so they are putting a lot more focus on good transit and walkability.

@@KyrilPGline 15 in Paris is one of the most exciting public transit projects in the world.

Oh my God. The exhaust from the bus when it left the bus stop was horrendous.

WTF, you walked???

Go visit Santa Monica for a future glimpse at the future of Beverly Hills. Bring rubbers, fecal material on the sidewalks.

They probably didn't want the secret underground tunnels in the area to be discovered or disturbed. Many go through downtown LA, and below certain regions of the Westside and SFV.

They were tunneling in Chicago with these in the 90s

Not the right kind of an engineer for this type of project, but thank you on behalf of all engineers.

More people live in LA county than 32 States in the USA

Right! It’s annoying so many of these RU-vidrs think adding these extra annoying edits to their videos will get them more fame or make the video more engaging smh.

Lmaooo ok gramps let’s get u to bed

Trying to hard to be the B1M

Missing the forest for the trees.

For me, it’s the deliberate shaking of the narrower video clips. The few seconds it was shown was enough to make me nauseous.

Takes like these always make me laugh. Your city wouldn't be your city without the people. NYC, Dallas, LA, Chicago...they wouldn't be what they are without the populace. Your growth funds progress, progress helps growth. That gives you more people and culture. Otherwise, you're just another place. Example: Little Rock, AR. Did you know they created cheese dip? A huge staple in Super Bowl parties and just the South in general. But they don't have millions of people beating their chest about it. In that same vein, LA takes pride in its graffiti. BEFORE YOU DENY IT! Maybe talk to the marketing people of LA28. They are using that as advertisement to the world. However, places all over the country do graffiti. It's just millions of people can say no we started it first. That doesn't happen without people. You can't claim you created the Buffalo Wings or the cheesesteak without that "annoying" growth. You don't get public transit if there is no public to transport. You don't get to be a city with a culture of influence to brag about without it. Another example: Nashville Hot Chicken. It's just spicy chicken tenders. But because of their booming growth, the locals can say 'Yeah it's ours' and now everyone has Nashville Hot. Nashville gets advertising, the city grows, and we find out the "Nashville flip" exists.

@@FLAMETOASHJesus Christ you’re reaching. You got all of that out of a simple vague comment someone made smh

Los Angeles is a world destination city, but it will never be NYC. We are our own thing. The weather alone is a huge difference that affects how people perceive their community.

@@FLAMETOASH I've been to NYC a few times. Although I like visiting it's way too crowded. I don't like my city being that crowded, that's all I meant. Your essay did not change my mind.

Los Angeles will continue to invest in public transit infrastructure for the foreseeable future. However, it will do so in its own unique way because LA is a unique city in many ways, including geographically and size wise. To get an idea, Paris is 41 square miles. Los Angeles is 502 square miles. You understand the scope of what Los Angeles is attempting in building out its Metro system? LA Metro will never be as densely built as Paris because it's over 10 times as big. What Los Angeles is doing is building a network of rail lines that will serve the different parts of the city and supplement them with BRTs and regular buses that will feed into these rail lines through the various stations. However, due to such a large surface area, cars will continue to be important because they will also need to feed riders to the stations. That's the main reason why LA Metro will continue constructing parking structures near certain stations. If drivers in LA drove much less, it would be transformational. LA Metro could go a long way to make that happen. That's what I do. If I want to do to DTLA, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, the Santa Monica Beach, etc., I drive 15 minutes to my closest Metro station and use the Metro. Spend the day using it and when I'm ready to go home I head back to my car and drive 15 minutes back home. It works out great. Very convenient. Though, if I lived in DTLA, I probably wouldn't need a car at all since DTLA has the most Metro stations of any neighborhood. LA Metro has 110 miles of track with 101 stations. Within 12 years, that will increase to around 180 miles with several dozen more stations. We are also getting a Metro connection to the LAX airport in 2025. That will be huge, too.

@@mrxman581 Thank you for the impeccable, informative response.

I think LA could get there, by 2250 probably

@@RafaquaQuetta Very funny! Let's hope for the best.

Yeah, that's the issue-Los Angeles is simply too big for Paris style saturation coverage of the entire city. Plus, the city sprawl barely slows down at the city limits, or even county limits. But you can get decent coverage of the most dense and important parts of the city, and Los Angeles is heading towards that goal. It will be a multi decade long series of projects, though.

Not quite true. There will be a circular path of rail lines soon. Once the K and C lines connect to each other and the LAX airport, you'll be able to go from Union Station, to the A line, to the C line, to the K line, to the E line and back to the A line to Union Station. That will be the first time you can go around a certain part of the city like that. A "wheel" if you will. There will be two more "wheel" configurations in the future with the Northern extension of the C line to the B line. And, one with the Sepulveda line that will connect to the B line in North Hollywood and both the D line and E line when it goes South. In fact, the Sepulveda line is planned to go to LAX, but that's much farther out time wise. The one area where I would like to see a light rail line is down Sunset Blvd to service the East Hollywood area. I would have a connection at the A line Chinatown station and have it go West down Sunset all the all to the Sunset/Vermont B line subway station. It could go underground before it gets to the subway station and add a second level to the station. Similar to the 7th St Metro station in DTLA. That would create another "wheel."

Not quite, the K and Sepulvida lines will intersect it eventually, the Sepulvifqa line will cross at UCLA and the K line with cross at a point not yet determined

Damn over by the grove ?

No damage during the 1994 quake. Educate yourself on how safe the tunnels are compared to the surface.

And yet, somehow Japan manages to have one of the most extensive subway networks on earth, despite constant earthquakes.. crazy.

There's only the little problem of the Santa Monica mountains that separate the two.

They put Westwood east of downtown on the map too. This video is a Chi-com joke.

The whole video has mistakes like the explosion in the 80’s was on 3rd and Fairfax not along Wilshire

They are researching a BRT line along Rosemead/Lakewood corridor. Beach Blvd is in Orange County. Talk to their transit agency.

@@mrxman581 HWY 19 would be nice.

China will also confiscate your house in order to build it. And not pay you anything.

This line didn't officially start until fairly recently. Routing and funding was being decided. In the meantime many other public rail projects were completed around LA metro in the last 15 years. And this is for a metro area, not intercity. However, the LA metro area and Las Vegas have been set to get an intercity high speed train in the next few years. Amtrak already connects LA to San Diego.

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I believe there are already lines that go near or thru south LA. The blue line goes from downtown south to Long Beach. The Green Line goes east-west through south central, and will soon have additional north-south stops at Leimert Park, and Martin Luther King Blvd., Inglewood, etc. The Expo line is also adjacent though a little farther north. A silver line will also go right through the heart of south central between the Green and Blue lines.

​@@danmur2797the K line is already open to South LA.

Japan seems to manage just fine with underground trains in a more seismically active region.

Musk tried to build a better system for 1/10th the cost. $10 million a mile a tunnel. He got denied by a homeowner group near where he lived, for environmental reasons. Yet these con men get to build worse subway and there is green light. These whole line will be full of drunks and homeless selling you stuff. Unsafe for families. Basically they took Musks boring design and 10xed the price. Unions get rich. City officials get rich and fill campaign coffers running money through Ukraine and Gaza. Everyone else either just pays rent and sent to the homeless concentration camps.

LA Metro has already built over 110 miles of rail line, both light rail and subway since the 1990s. Combined with Metrolink it makes LA metros public transit rail network one of the largest in the country after NYCs. LA Metro has had a lot of additional projects on the board, but lack of funding and established routes made these proposals just proposals for the time being. The Purple Line was one of these--it was originally planned as an extension of the red line. Still while route and funding was secured for that line LA Metro has in the meantime completed or extended many other public transit rail projects in the last 15 years. The good thing is that construction on the Purple Line is now in process, so barring any unexpected events, things should go according to timelines, like other recently completed projects.

@@danmur2797 All over priced with no desire to cut wages and save costs. The subways downtown are scary to use for families and kids. If you ride everyday you will see crimes.

​@freetrailer4poor Not true.

@freetrailer4poor LA has built out a lot of rail with modest funding from the federal government. A new line under construction in NYC is costing $1.2 billion per mile to build. In LA the Purple Line is costing about $400 million per mile to build. LA has been building a lot of miles of track and rail far more efficiently and cost effectively than in other major cities like NYC and London. Compared to emerging nations all costs for building rail in the U.S. are high. But compared to the rest of the U.S., LA has built an extensive network on the cheap.

La bri tar pits? AI flag