LA Metro reaches halfway mark on first section of Purple Line Extension construction

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) announced that construction on the $3.1 billion, 4-mile subway section between Koreatown and Beverly Hills, Cailfornia, has reached the halfway mark.

The subway section includes three stations and is one of three sections to be built as part of LA Metro’s Purple Line Extension. The project will ultimately extend the route nine miles westward of the line’s current terminus and add seven new stations in 2023.

A Skanska Traylor Shea joint venture crew has completed excavating the future Wilshire/La Brea and Wilshire/Fairfax station sites, and is 20 feet from reaching the bottom of the Wilshire/La Cinega station site, which is the third and final station of the subway section.

“Because of everyone’s support and patience, we’re on track to get the first leg of the subway open all the way to the front gates of Beverly Hills by 2023," said Los Angeles County Supervisor and LA Metro Chair Sheila Kuehl in a press release.