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The Hollywood Subway, as it is most commonly known, officially the Belmont Tunnel, was a subway tunnel used by the interurban streetcars (the "Red Cars") of the Pacific Electric Railway. It ran from its northwest entrance in today's Westlake district to the Subway Terminal Building , in the Historic Core , the business and commercial center of ...
As construction on the Red Line subway continued in 1995, a sinkhole appeared on Hollywood Boulevard, barely missing several workers and causing damage to buildings on the street. Subway construction was halted until the situation could be resolved. The contractor, Shea-Kiewit-Kenny, was replaced with a new contractor, Tutor Saliba. [46]
The Hollywood Line was a local streetcar line of the Pacific Electric Railway. It primarily operated between Downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood, with some trips as far away as Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles. It was the company's busiest route prior to the opening of the Hollywood Subway.
The historic Subway Terminal, now Metro 417, opened in 1925 at 417 South Hill Street near Pershing Square, in the core of Los Angeles as the second, main train station of the Pacific Electric Railway; it served passengers boarding trains for the west and north of Southern California through a mile-long shortcut under Bunker Hill popularly called the "Hollywood Subway," but officially known as ...
Hollywood: Bronson Avenue, Canyon Drive Brush Canyon: August 6, 1918: N/A: W Lankershim–Van Nuys Subway Terminal: Glendale Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard, Highland Avenue, Hollywood Freeway, Vineland Avenue, Chandler Boulevard, Van Nuys Boulevard Van Nuys: December 28, 1952: MTA Line 156 W Owensmouth: Subway Terminal
Subway construction was delayed during the investigation and repairs of the sinkhole. The contractor on that segment project was replaced, and because of the perceived mismanagement of Red Line construction, in 1998 voters banned the use of existing sales taxes for subway tunnelling. [15] Train at North Hollywood Metro B Line station
When Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan first sat down to write “Hollywood,” their new seven-part limited series about the Golden Age of Tinseltown, they wanted the show to be an investigation into ...
Wilshire/ Vermont – Hollywood/Vine: 5 4.7 Red Line MOS-3 June 24, 2000 Hollywood/Vine – North Hollywood: 3 6.3 $2.3 billion Gold Line Initial Segment July 26, 2003 Union Station – Sierra Madre Villa: 12 [a] 13.7 $721 million Gold Line Eastside Extension November 15, 2009 Union Station – Atlantic: 8 6.0 $887 million Expo Line Phase 1