The Purple Line - LA's $9.5BN New Metro
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- Los Angeles is building The Purple Line - a brand new metro mega project to ease congestion. The new railway line is an insane piece of engineering designed under a heavily congested city. Today we explore the construction behind LA's new metro rail system.
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We are yet to visit this city but we heard the traffic was awful?
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. 😎👀
LA resident here. At the 1 minute mark of the video you highlight "Wilshire Blvd", however the street you highlighted is actually San Vicente. Wilshire is the one running east to west with all the taller buildings.
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.
@@NicholasHarsin Spoken by AI... lol surprised people fall for it.
@@NicholasHarsin and so many misspellings.
So is this channel entirely AI generated? Mispronounced words from a possible robot voice, stock footage from cities all over the world, placeholder text in the video?
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
I actually thought this was B1M and was super disappointed. lol
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
Toponyms always screw up text-to-speech. La Brea is pronounced La BRAY-ah, not "la bree"
As LA wags say, "the LA la brea tar pits", translates to "the LA the tar tar pits".
It’s A.I. voice
Wilshire, the real estate developer who created the street, never wanted streetcars on his street. The LA streetcars went along Exposition boulevard, Sunset, Santa Monica, Hollywood, and San Vicente, but never Wilshire. He still gets his wish, because this train goes *under* Wilshire. 1:24
@6:13 someone forgot to remove the place holder text, unless "longlpsum" is an actual word I don't know about! :p
Yea, that made me laugh when I saw it. 😂
Took out the “Lorem” but left the “Ipsum” from placeholder text.
As an LA resident I found this video to be super informative. Thanks for sharing!
Sorry guys. I got about 2 mins in and the AI finally drove me away. Nice try.
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.
That ROSS is not on Wilshire! It's on 3rd St & Ogden. I went to Hancock Park Elementary in 1985 & I remember the ROSS parking lot was on fire from underground methane gas ruptures along with the building. The GROVE wasn't even built yet.
They been building that tunnel so long it was even put in GTA 5 🤣
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.
Engineers are amazing gahdamn
Not the right kind of an engineer for this type of project, but thank you on behalf of all engineers.
I mean that's one way to get cities to get their stuff together, force them to host the olympics.
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.
I lived 1 block off of Wilshire near Alvarado in the sixties when I was a student with little money. The bus (with horrible fumes) was very convenient. My life revolved around Wilshire Blvd with trips to Westwood, Santa Monica and Hollywood via Western ave bus. On Wilshire there was a bus almost every five minutes. Also, I would walk several miles every day which is very healthy.
Oh my God. The exhaust from the bus when it left the bus stop was horrendous.
WTF, you walked???
It's pronounced la bray ah!!
Tunnel Boring Machines very much existed in the 1980s when Henry Waxman and Zeb Yaroslavsky worked to block the subway from coming to West Los Angeles.
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.
That’s great. I found the first mentions of a purple line map halfway through the video. Wasting people’s time is amazing
I can not wait for this
Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games!
Project and budget approved ! Best Professionals start working! On it !
Very good video. Best video I've seen explaining the tunnel boring process. Thanks.
I like trains.
i love the purple line i need the purple line
Traffic still going to be a nightmare with or without purple lines
More people live in LA county than 32 States in the USA
Waiting for the Big One.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I love my city, but it's slowly turning in to NYC. Our population has gone up so much since I was a kid in the 90s.
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.
Thank you for the well-executed, informative video. Let's hope that Los Angeles continues to invest in its transport system. Is it possible that the city could one day have infrastructure that rivals that of Paris?
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.
It's funny cause USA military has had these tunnel boring machines for decades, making their underground bases 😂
I wonder how does the system deal with earthquakes?
This TBM reminds me of “The Drill” the fire nation built and was trying to drill through Ba sing Se in the Series Avatar the last air bender ! Haha back in 2006 ? I think ?
B1M with no care for proofreading- wild
anyone else notice a grid on their TV's? thought my tv was malfunctioning
Why not make them a longer
Briefly showed the methane plume from the 2015 leak at the Aliso Canyon Storage Field, which has nothing to do with the subject at hand (3:19).
they been talking and building that rail line since I was in art school off of wilshire and normandie back in 2008
who knew building your large city would cause traffic jams whereas building public transport would free up the highway.
who knew
'Still suffers as yet another spoke on a system with no wheel.
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
"400 feet longIpsum" :D
We need a light rail on Lakewood Blvd and Rosemead Blvd from Sierra Madre CA north to Long Beach CA south. that's hwy 19.
We also need one on Beach Blvd and Azusa Ave hwy 39 from Huntington Beach CA south to Azusa CA north.
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.
Ah so that’s why there’s been one guy digging a hole while ten other guys watch for the last decade.
I know the moment I stepped foot in the LA subway system, the big one would hit. So glad San Diego kept their trolley above ground
Japan seems to manage just fine with underground trains in a more seismically active region.
Traffic will still be the same
Really good video, thanks.
9.5 billion $ for 7 stations is too much for me at least
Man, the screen effect, shaky cam, and dramatic music are way too much.
Better add more armed security until the wave of violence on the Metro is put to an end.
What about south central?
🦗🦗🦗
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.
Sounds like a sales pitch trying to get people on board with it, how great it is and worth the spend.
I wonder who produced it and the purpose or if it is just clickbait.
It's an OK system. I been on it since the 90s. Problem is .... LA county is overcrowded.
All that in an area known for earthquakes? Only in California. Are the same people that dug tunnels under our borders, doing this one. They could probably done it a lot cheaper
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.
$9.5B for how many Kilometer
STOP WITH THE JITTERY CAMERA MOTION!
Where is TELEPORTATION hadron collider ?
This video forgot to add a list of politicians who will be pocketing the $9 billion and still not finish the project on time and still request another $9 billion 💀
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.
Govt’s solution for us! No more cars, just for the elite.
AI guys
Sorry I watched this and added to view count.
Ditch the music, drums and pronunciation you chose for La Brea!
No one will ride it unless there's armed security on board.
@01:20 These generated narrations make the goofiest of mistakes. "Trolley" pronounced "Troll--ee". Why wasn't this caught? Is having a functioning human being reading the text so prohibitive?
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
How many murders in the first year?
LA's murder rate is actually relatively quite lower compared to a lot of other US cities. It's not even in the top 20. You're much more likely to fall victim to theft/ property crime in LA
@@dante340 I’m gonna need just a number.
Complains about idling at a red light on Wilshire, shows traffic jam in Sao Paulo.
Seems legit.
I rather still drive
Connecting Skid Row to Beverley Hills is a great way to open the area to Urban Camping.
There's already lines that go up near other upscale neighborhoods and nothing has changed much.
@@danmur2797Exactly!
South LA still waiting for potholes to be filled
We're still waiting for you guys to vote Republican for once.
@@Downey-2000Move to Orange County.
Different agency responsible for pot holes.
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China built an intercity rail NETWORK with less than that, and they're already done a decade ago while starting much latter than this line, which will look aged by the time is open...
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.
Not going to work...😅😊
can we have no homeless on public transit we get the countries homeless
Bad B1M ai generated knock-off
The smelly homeless, the crazies and the "teens" will all love it!
Your computerized narrator needs to pronounce La Brea phonetically as "Lah Bray-Uh" and not as 'Lah Bree".
Nah. Not to the Pacific Ocean. Not oo the Pacific Ocean and more. /
It’s La Brea and is pronounced La Braiya, NOT La Bree.
Too much overuse of animations and sound effects. I can't even watch the video, they are so distracting.
Right! It’s annoying so many of these TH-camrs 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.
Earthquakes
you’re aware a subway line already exist there right?
EARTHQUAKE, Subway's are a great idea and move people faster. BUT, what happens after the next big earthquake and people get trapped under all the rubble and many die. Will all the subways that exist be shutdown because the are to dangerous in light of earthquakes or the risk is worth the lost live because of the transportation benefit. Please reply?
They have been working on it for over 20 years now... I doubt they can finish this before the LA Olympic in 2028. Other nations have been finishing a subway line within 3 years or so, even without these "engineer marvels."
They've NOT been working on it for over 20 years.
The entire LA Metro rail system is just a little over 20 years old. And combined with Metrolink together the network is now one of the most extensive in the country after only NYC.
LA Metro has completed a lot of projects over the last 15 years. And it still had more on the board including the Purple Line. But funding and finalizing the route was holding up construction. Beverly Hills in particular threw up legal hurdles.
Construction on the Purple Line has therefore only started in the last few years, and if completion timelines for other completed rail projects are any indication the Purple Line is right on schedule.
Not true.
So smart to build in earthquake country !
Japan has far more frequent/ stronger earthquakes than California does and they still manage to have an incredibly extensive subway network.
Give half that money to the Hamas Boring Company and they will tunnel the subway in one year and throw in another subway to San Diego for free.
There's no point if you can't currently use the subway because it's too dangerous.
TRUE!
If the criminals ride the train, its a 9.5 Billion dollar waste of money
Great, so the LA Metro train station murders that have been happening above ground can continue underground.
Many more murdered by vehicles in LA.
If I'm going to get stabbed on public transportation, which is commonplace these days in LA, I prefer to be above ground. At least I can see the sun or moon as I die lying on the street as people walk by filming me instead of calling 911.
Drama queen.
That's Los Angeles for real.
You have a higher probability of getting injured or killed by a vehicle in LA.
@@mrxman581 Probably much higher in the Dallas or Houston area. Texas has the worse infrastructure for pedestrians. I do not feel safe walking in Texas.
Misleading infos B1M is better than him
Due to the troubles, crimes and homeless that LA public transit brings in, the City of Beverly Hills has opted out of this project. There will be no stops in the city of Beverly Hills. Smart move by BH.
There is a stop right on Rodeo Drive.
Just where I want to be, in a subway deep underground in earthquake city. NOPE !!!!!
Speaking of the monorail plan-- the company that proposed building it Los Angeles offered to built it FOR FREE as a demonstration of a public transit system. Still, Los Angeles turned it down. The decisions made by mid-century Los Angeles city managers were one mistake after another. METRO is now considering a multi-billion-dollar monorail line through the Sepulveda Pass to connect the Valley to the Westside.
Hopefully they go for another heavy rail subway instead, which is another option for that project that is far superior for a wide variety of reasons.
Great...another homeless shelter.
Go to Moscow and look at their METRO !
It's more like a museum of old transit infrastructure and technology.
1:35 “and worse yet, they feared the streetcars might attract undesirable characters” = they didn’t want people with brown or black skin to have an easy way to get out of downtown & reach relatively posh white neighborhoods out on Wiltshire. Teach your bot to state in a more direct and openly honest way the major underlying reason for resistance to public transit expansion, especially in the 1960s. No real understanding of the disastrous urban mis-planning that has made so many of our cities inconvenient and unlivable can be had without taking race into account. Judging from many of the comments in this section, I would say the same ghost haunts us today.
That's not a transit agency issue.
Reparations!
9 billion for one street in a city of 15 million... what an absolute misuse of public money
Misuse? You said it yourself, 15 million people. More is necessary.
Please note it's not just "one street". As the video said, it's one of the most densely trafficked corridors in LA--and a big distance. Several miles in fact.
A lot of tourist attractions (Beverly Hills, West Hollywood), UCLA stop, Hollywood, etc.
It's basically the other heart of the city apart from downtown LA.
It's been for a long time one of the most underserved by public transit, and highways, and most important corridors in LA.
It would be like Times Square in NYC lacking a subway. It was long overdue.
In the meantime while the route of the Purple Line was finalized, many other public rail projects have been completed around LA County. A lot in fact, over the last 15 years, though most of it light rail.
Fix homelessness first!!! I lost my housing twice during the pandemic and still can't get off the streets yet!!!! I'm living in a Toyota Sienna now!!!
Different agencies with different funding pots. This money has to be used for public transit.
These underground tunnels are a death trap. I dont care how much faster they are or how convenient they... I'll stick with driving my car 🚗
finally a new home for the homeless people
It will bring more crime to the nice areas
the odd creepy background music didnt match the content at all whatsoever. got too annoying for me to keep watching this trash even though i'm interested in the topic at hand.
What about all the homeless people that live in the trains and the insecurity of if you’re gonna get mugged or not the whole,time you ride it
I am never going on public transporation in the LA area. Never ever ever ever.
Get rid of the f$cking screen!