Cool how people are finding random features in Metro stations even to this day
From Season 16 Episode 1 of "Artbound"
Pro-Metro video from the California Post... I couldn't believe it either. And most importantly, a few regular users from this sub are interviewed in the video!
Does taking the J Line or Silver Streak save commuters up to 10 minutes each way vs one-seat ride straight to the office from home? I feel like any speed savings are probably cancelled out by the amount of time it takes to walk from the parking lot into & through the El Monte Transit Center since the transit center designed in such a sprawling way. Plus bus frequencies aren't great. But maybe?
From "In a Minute with Evan Lovett," June 29, 2026
Video goes through potential ways to get funding to complete Phase 1, including potentially shifting funds from road maintenance to rail construction.
The development would be located two blocks west of the new Metro D Line station at Wilshire and La Cienega Boulevards, and contain approximately 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space with seven stories of housing. The project would include 72 residential units with studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom options. Twelve of the units would be reserved for moderate and low-income residents.
While the 85 foot tall development at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Stanley Drive exceeds standard Beverly Hills height and density restrictions, the project utilizes the state’s density bonus law, which allows buildings with affordable housing to exceed local code regulations.
Project plans include a two-level underground parking structure with 59 spaces, including EV and ADA-accessible spaces. The development claims a parking exemption from standard residential parking requirements under Assembly Bill 2097, which allows buildings near transit stops to bypass local parking allotments.
Passenger service still not expected until next year.
Litvak was Metro's main community engagement representative on the D Line Extension, Wilshire bus lanes, and Sepulveda Subway. She retired about a year ago from a thankless job running meetings to try to interface with crazy & clueless members of the public.
Some interesting nuggets in the lecture about how she really feels about the Bus Riders Union, Beverly Hills Unified School District, City of Beverly Hills, and Fred Rosen. And two short stories about how Metro made decisions internally about risk aversion with potholing in Beverly Hills despite city objections, and whether they should have even bothered studying a monorail along Sepulveda.
The space has been empty for four years, making this portal to 7MC feel kind of abandoned and sketchy. Hopefully the new business and foot traffic will make this side of the subway station feel safer and more lively. Also BOGO on Friday haha
The former Wetzels/Dunkin space remains empty
People here often ask questions about how to order tickets, which could be answered most easily with screenshots of the Amtrak website annotated with exactly where to click. Also, people ask about where to go within a station, and it would help to reply with an image in the comments with a station map. Lots of the time, trying to describe a visual answer with text ends up being more complicated and less clear than just replying with an image of what you are trying to describe.
Currently r/Amtrak does allow top-level posts to have images in them, but as far as comments go, you can only reply with text rather than images. Using a third-party image upload service like Imgur is a workaround, but that adds hassle, and their website sometimes gets glitchy on mobile. I think it would benefit the sub to allow people to comment directly with pictures.
https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/15zielv/how_do_you_allow_pictures_in_comments/
About 225,000 cars pass this sign each day. Oops!