Wilshire/La Brea station explained

Wilshire/La Brea
Style:Los Angeles Metro Rail
Symbol Location:losangeles
Symbol:D
Address:5300 Wilshire Boulevard
Borough:Los Angeles, California
Owned:Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Structure:Underground
Accessible:Yes
Status:Under construction
Other Services Header:Future service
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:14

Wilshire/La Brea station is an under construction, underground rapid transit (known locally as a subway) station on the D Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and La Brea Avenue. It is slated to open in 2025.[1] The D Line will serve it and will be the first station on that line west of Wilshire/Western station.[2] [3] [4]

Service

Station layout

GStreet levelEntrance/Exit
B1MezzanineFaregates, ticket machines, to Entrance/Exit
B2Westbound← toward
Eastbound toward →

The station is currently under construction with a completion date of 2025. The station box dig out was completed. Tunnel boring machines were launched here dug the tunnel east to Wilshire/Western station, then returned and launched west to Wilshire/Fairfax station.

This is one of two possible transfer stations with the K Line Northern Extension to Hollywood which are under study, the other being Wilshire/Fairfax station.[5]

Attractions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: D Line Subway Extension Project – Section 1 . . July 9, 2024.
  2. Boxley, Brittany. "Plans Announced to Extend the Purple Line" . Annenberg TV News. November 13, 2012.
  3. Brightwell, Eric. "Exploring the Planned Course of the Metro Purple Line Extension" . KCET. August 28, 2012.
  4. Braymer, Noel T. "LA Busy Building over 35 Miles of New Rail Transit over the Next 10 Years." RailPAC. December 8, 2012.
  5. Web site: Three routes recommended for further study on Crenshaw Northern Extension project. August 17, 2020. March 23, 2023. September 3, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200903061908/https://thesource.metro.net/2020/08/17/three-routes-recommended-for-further-study-on-crenshaw-northern-extension-project/. live.