The Purple Line - LA's $9.5BN New Metro

Los Angeles is building The Purple Line - a brand new metro mega project to ease congestion. The new railway line is an insane piece of engineering designed under a heavily congested city. Today we explore the construction behind LA's new metro rail system.

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[TheImpossibleBuild]

We are yet to visit this city but we heard the traffic was awful?

[rianlong]

LA resident here. At the 1 minute mark of the video you highlight "Wilshire Blvd", however the street you highlighted is actually San Vicente. Wilshire is the one running east to west with all the taller buildings.

[misterinternational]

So is this channel entirely AI generated? Mispronounced words from a possible robot voice, stock footage from cities all over the world, placeholder text in the video?

[michaelwindsor]

It is infuriating how many decades the wealthy and influential have kept this city choked in the 1950's with racist and classist blocks to modern transportation and housing. I think that is just now finally starting to break up a bit. As you can see at different points in the video, this subway line should have been built decades ago.

[WilliamCarterII]

I actually thought this was B1M and was super disappointed. lol

[passatboi]

Toponyms always screw up text-to-speech. La Brea is pronounced La BRAY-ah, not "la bree"

[jonathaneby]

Wilshire, the real estate developer who created the street, never wanted streetcars on his street. The LA streetcars went along Exposition boulevard, Sunset, Santa Monica, Hollywood, and San Vicente, but never Wilshire. He still gets his wish, because this train goes *under* Wilshire. 1:24

[british]

@6:13 someone forgot to remove the place holder text, unless "longlpsum" is an actual word I don't know about! :p

[oldschoolrican]

That ROSS is not on Wilshire! It's on 3rd St & Ogden. I went to Hancock Park Elementary in 1985 & I remember the ROSS parking lot was on fire from underground methane gas ruptures along with the building. The GROVE wasn't even built yet.

[HoodrichDrakeo]

My dad funny enough is the superintendent for local 600 that is working this project. His work truck literally says purple line. Pretty cool

[larry]

Sorry guys. I got about 2 mins in and the AI finally drove me away. Nice try.

[Gymshark_SurgicalTech]

They been building that tunnel so long it was even put in GTA 5 🤣

[glentonrichards]

As an LA resident I found this video to be super informative. Thanks for sharing!

[Buffaloc]

I lived 1 block off of Wilshire near Alvarado in the sixties when I was a student with little money. The bus (with horrible fumes) was very convenient. My life revolved around Wilshire Blvd with trips to Westwood, Santa Monica and Hollywood via Western ave bus. On Wilshire there was a bus almost every five minutes. Also, I would walk several miles every day which is very healthy.

[-Katastrophe]

I mean that's one way to get cities to get their stuff together, force them to host the olympics.

[jeffrey]

To be accurate the gas explosion at the Ross store was not on Wilshire Boulevard it was on 3rd Street. But this is still a great video so thank you!

[kirkgriffin]

A few people in LA hold up mass transit. San Diego has an above ground trolley that almost covers the entire county and city. Glad they did this right. And they are still building.

[WDI]

Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games!

[erik_griswold]

Tunnel Boring Machines very much existed in the 1980s when Henry Waxman and Zeb Yaroslavsky worked to block the subway from coming to West Los Angeles.

[Robert-mnod]

Thank you for your time and work I truly honor .