Petition ‘raises awareness’ of Metro subway issues; 100 trees slated for removal
PREPARATION FOR the Purple Line subway along Museum Row is ongoing. Photo by Dave Sotero/Metro
“Sleepless in Miracle Mile,” the headline of a petition circulating the neighborhood, has done its job, says James O’Sullivan, president of the Miracle Mile Residential Association.
While the aim is to get 1,000 signatures on the online petition, the number is arbitrary as the process has already raised awareness of Metro’s “poor planning” in preparations for extending the Purple Line subway through the neighborhood, he says.
The group is not against the subway. It’s all for mass transit. It’s the nighttime, weekend and holiday work hours, with no strategic overview in the coming decade, that the group opposes.
The petition asks the L.A. Police Commission to deny granting Metro (L.A. County Metropolitan Transit Authority) carte blanche exemptions from city ordinances for the subway stations at Fairfax and La Brea at Wilshire.
The group seeks to meet with the contractor before the job begins to determine a thorough work schedule.
A spokesman for Metro said the agency is in the process of scheduling a meeting with the Police Commission to discuss permits. A time frame has not been decided, he added.
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