HOLLYWOOD -- Speaking at the Urban Land Institute's Transit Oriented Development Summit, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-California) announced that the Federal Transit Administration had admitted the entire 9.3-mile stretch of Los Angeles Metro's proposed "Subway to the Sea" for preliminary engineering studies. Boxer said that the admission of the entirely bodes well for Metro's innovative "30-10" financing plan, which promises to remake the face of transit in Los Angeles within a decade.
