Beverly Hills Unified School District Blasts Newest Recommendations for Antonio Villaraigosa's Westside Subway

We all spend too much time launching opinions back and forth about one another's neighborhoods.  I do not live in Beverly Hills but I work in Century City.  Would I take the Subway to the Sea?  I don't know.  I dothink it's ridiculous to tunnel through methane, oil, and tar to give developers more of an opportunity to sling even more density along an already crowded transit corridor.  Yes, the L.A. Weekly is biased and very Westside-centric, but eventually, even L.A. Weekly makes it to another section of town and reports on something important that is occurring there.

Beverly Hills residents and businesses are taking their opportunity to offer public comments.  It's part of the EIR process that every Angeleno should take part in.  If you are going to ride this subway, even if you do not live in Beverly Hills, you should take part in the dialogue.  If the Rodeo Drive Merchants Association, BHHS, or whoever manages to stop this train -- preferably before breaking ground -- then so be it.  But at the very least have your say.  And, while you are there, leave yourself open to the comments being expressed.

Screw Beverly Hills and its stupid high school!They should be begging  for a subway , so all their nannies and housekeepers can make it to work on time ! 

It's not a vanity project, Mr. McDonald. It will be a vital piece of our ever expanding mass transportation network. The Weekly's coverage of mass transit is worse than no coverage at all. 

Yes, Mr. McDonald, it's "Antonio Villaraigosa's Subway" because ONLY Antonio Villaraigosa is going to ride it. Never mind the 100,000+ other people who will ride it on a daily basis, the countless supporters from all walks of LA life, and the Metro board of directors who have to vote on the project (only 5 of which are nominated by the LA mayor). And never mind that versions of this project have been on the drawing boards for five decades or that, historically, the greatest opposition has come from rich white people with dubious feelings about people of other races and income levels. 

Lovely how the Weekly is taking the side of all those poor, oppressed people in Beverly Hills. As for those "Century City fat cats," what about the secretaries, maintenance people, food service workers, and hospitality workers who will rely on the subway? As for the substance of your post...do LA Weekly writers ever tire of being disingenuous? 

Anyone whohas attended the many community meetings over the last 5 years leading upto the release of the FEIR can tell you that the subway will not prevent BHUSDfrom modernizing its school, including building a multi-level undergroundparking garage.

In acivilized world, BHUSD construction managers would sit down withMetro folks and work out what would go where. And if BHUSD's geologistsand other consultants reports differ from Metro's consultants' reports,they should sit down in a collegial atmosphere, explain their respectiveconcerns, and work it out for the safety of future commuters, students,teachers, parents, etc. Nobody wants to build a subway at the cost of safety;the experts have figured out how to drill through oil, gas, and many othertypes of hazards, both here in LA and around the world in otherearthquake-prone zones. I would like to point out that when there was an8.0 earthquake a few years back in Chile, a day after it hit, the subwaywas ferrying rescue workers throughout Santiago.

Grownupstalk out their issues. It may make for more interesting press orelection fodder to create hysteria instead of learning the facts, but it's atremendous waste of time and energy that could be devoted to dealing with thefact that there will be 3 million more people here in the LA regionover the next 30 years due to internal population growth - and I suspect thatwe will all prefer to ride a subway rather than sitting and stewing in thetraffic above-ground. No, the subway will not 'reduce traffic.' but it willprovide an alternative to the congestion that passes for normal lifein our city.  

First off, I'm not surprised to see such a negative article from the anti-transit, biased newspaper called "LA Weekly". The LA Weekly has lost their credibility years ago, due to their leftist, ultra-liberal distorted views, and their one-sided, anti-transit propaganda. Second, the Beverly HIlls' NIMBY's and other rich dummies have no idea that it only makes sense to build a subway station where there's lots of pedestrian traffic, including shopping centers, business districts, and other activity, therefore - guaranteed strong ridership. The Beverly Hills dummies also don't realize that Beverly Hills is not the only city in the world where subway is built under a high-school. And guess what: subways are being built under homes, schools, libraries, and other important buildings in the entire world! So - please, get real, and let's get our city's subway moving forward.

I salute Metro's decision to build the station at Constellation & Ave of the Stars, it's the right place for the subway stop.

It's articles like this that explain why L.A.'s mass transit system is so woefully behind every other major city in the world.

LA Weekly, as always, getting its prostate rubbed by Beverly Hills interests instead of what THE PEOPLE want. Compare 8,600 boardings at the Constellation station vs only 5,500 boardings at a Santa Monica station (what BHUSD wants).

I find BHUSD's safety argument completely baffling when you consider they have an active oil well at Beverly Hills High School producing cancer-causing chemicals and contributes to global warming.

Um, the fictional Brandon and Brenda Walsh of TV's Beverly Hills, 90210 went to fictional "WEST Beverly Hills High School." Please make a note of it.

I wonder how many writers for the LA Weekly have ever ridden a bus... maybe if any of them had ever spent time on the 720 they wouldn't be cheerleaders against subways and light rail... 

http://patch.com/A-rHqjTake a poll...do you support the Constellation Avenue station or are you against it?

What are they going to do about the historic tunnels already built underneath the school leading into Century City? We used to ditch school using them...I wonder if they even know those exist!