Metro removed the final pieces of a tunneling machine from a construction staging yard near Wilshire/Gale on Oct. 20. (photo courtesy of Metro)

Learn about work on the Purple Line Extension subway project during the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s next lunchtime webinar on Wednesday, Nov. 3, from noon to 1 p.m., via Zoom. To join the webinar, visit zoom.us/j/96626476708 and use the ID 966 2647 6708. To participate by phone, call (669)900-9128.

Metro is working on the Purple Line Extension project at many locations between the Wilshire/Western and Westwood/VA Hospital stations and is providing updates. In Century City, work is ongoing underground at the future Century City/Constellation subway station. Crews are also relocating sewers and storm drains in the area around the station through early 2022. Partial traffic lane closures will be required overnight on Avenue of the Stars. Vehicle access on Constellation Boulevard will be maintained between Century Park West and Century Park East.

In Beverly Hills, crews are continuing work on the Wilshire/Rodeo and Wilshire/La Cienega stations. Geotechnical instruments atop poles will be temporarily installed on public sidewalks along Wilshire Boulevard to monitor construction. Each instrument will be in place for approximately one month before being removed and relocated.

Metro is also advising about lane reductions over the next three weekends on Wilshire Boulevard between Carson Road and La Cienega Boulevard for subsurface investigation. The work is necessary to determine if additional jet grouting and soil improvement is required within the subway tunnels.

At Wilshire/La Cienega, crews are building underground structures and passageways for the future subway station. Work is ongoing in staging yards at Wilshire/La Cienega and Wilshire/Gale, where workers on Oct. 20 removed the final pieces of a machine that tunneled from Wilshire/Western to Wilshire/La Cienega.

Crews are also working at the Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Brea subway stations, where appendage structures housing vital subway systems are being built underground. Intermittent lane closures are anticipated on Wilshire Boulevard and side streets near the Wilshire/La Brea station.

For questions and concerns about the Purple Line Extension project, call the 24-hour project hotline at (213)922-6934, email the project team at purplelineext@metro.net, or visit metro.net.