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After a 70-day suspension for construction, the Metro resumed its westernmost stretch of its D (purple) line on Saturday, with full rail service resuming between Union Station and Koreatown.
Transportation implemented a temporary closure on May 17th, allowing crews to complete important connections as part of the D-Line expansion project. Railway services resumed on Saturday at 4am.
Riders can again ride the metro to Wilshire/Vermont, Wilshire/Normandy and Wilshire/Western Stations.
During the closure, the metro provided a shuttle bus service and crew worked to connect all rail communications and power systems between the current subway lines and the expansions.
“We know that these closures are inconvenient for riders,” Metro Committee Chair and Whittier Councillor Fernando Duttra said at a meeting at Metro’s board meeting on Thursday.
“No one wants to close down some of our systems, but in cases like these complex projects, it’s much better to close the system in the short term, do everything in fragments at once and extend it over a long period of time.”
The D-Line Metro Expansion is built as three separate projects, adding a nine-mile Metro Railway and creating seven new stations.
Phase 1 is expected to open in the fall and will extend the D-line from Wilshire/West Station in Koreatown through Beverly Hills. The new stations will open in Wilshire/Lovere, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/Lasienega.
Wilshire/Rasienega Station will provide its first passenger rail service to Beverly Hills on September 26, 1954, when the Pacific Electric Railway’s service ended on the Hollywood Line.
The D-line will eventually be extended to Century City and end near the VA campus in West Los Angeles.
The expansion project is part of 28 Metro’s 28 initiatives to strengthen public transport ahead of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic games. The goal of this project is to complete 28 transportation infrastructure projects before the 2028 Summer Olympics begins on July 14, 2028.
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