HAPPY OFFICIALS standing behind a model of a tunnel-boring machine at the Metro “halfway there” celebration are, from left: former supervisor and Metro board member Zev Yaroslavsky, councilmember David Ryu, Metro CEO Phil Washington, supervisor and Metro board member Mark Ridley-Thomas, Metro board member Jackie Dupont-Walker, Natural History Museum president Lori Bettison-Varga and former councilmember and Metro board member Tom LaBonge.
Hundreds of people, including many families with children, turned up on the lawns of Hancock Park (the county park, not the subdivision) to celebrate the halfway point of construction for the first phase of the Purple Line subway extension from Western Avenue to La Cienega Blvd. Community leaders from Miracle Mile and Sycamore Square, as well as the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council, had booths, as did Metro vendors.
The next Metro community meeting on this phase of the extension project is Thurs., July 18, at the SAG-AFTRA building at Curson and Wilshire. Learn more at: metro.net/projects/notices/events_purpleline
NEIGHBORHOOD representatives with councilmember David Ryu (second from right) at the Metro celebration are, from left: Tammy Rosato (La-Brea Hancock), Conrad Starr (Sycamore Square) and Kari Garcia (Miracle Mile).
GREATER WILSHIRE board members and volunteers with Councilmember Ryu are, from left: Hayden Conner Ashworth, Max Kirkham and Kiersten Stanley.
