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Originally Posted by Quixote
^ The potential for a station at Jefferson/Centinela is what does it for me. If they can manage to squeeze in a station at Santa Monica/Barrington, then it’s a grand slam. This is really the only chance of us ever seeing stations at such locations. Venice Blvd will likely get a rail line eventually (negating the loss of an Overland station), even more so with two existing stations (Culver City and Mar Vista). So the only real loss is Santa Monica/Westwood, which again, could be negated with a station farther west.
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The Playa Vista station is key. Also I think having the N-S trunk line west of 405 is psychologically better.
Westwood/Overland is also good but Metro doesn't seem to be swayed by it.
Let's just keep in mind that this is a preliminary study... so station locations are not fixed. I think in a full scope EIR, Santa Monica/Barrington will pencil out quite nicely.
Westside Stations (I traded Centinela/Washington for Santa Monica/Barrington):
UCLA Campus
Westwood (Wilshire/Westwood, transfer to Purple line)
Santa Monica/Barrington
West LA (Bundy/Olympic,transfer to Expo line)
Mar Vista (Centinela/Venice, transfer to future Venice line)
Play Vista (Centinela/Jefferson)
Westchester (Sepulveda/Manchester)
LAX Transit Center (Aviation/98th St, transfer to Crenshaw/Green line and LAX APM, and maybe future Lincoln BRT)