UCLA Wants Metro to Spend an additional $3 Billion or more to Tunnel Under our Residential Community just to Save UCLA-bound Commuters 10-15 Minutes!

As originally presented years ago, the purpose of the Sepulveda Pass Transit Corridor is to get people from the San Fernando Valley to LAX — moving millions of people to and from the airport.

UCLA’S POSITION ON TUNNELING UNDER BEL-AIR:

The Bel-Air Association was alarmed to see UCLA’s formal comments on the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project during the public scoping period. UCLA’s position is to use the alternatives that tunnel under Bel-Air as oppose to the monorail or tunneling beneath the 405 or other viable options. Why? So anyone who wants to come to UCLA won’t have 10-15 minutes to get to the UCLA campus.

In other words, UCLA wants to spend billions of dollars more so that people don’t have to spend an extra 10 minutes going to UCLA. This makes no sense.

There should be NO tunneling underneath a residential community when there are viable public roads to accomplish the same ends.

Additionally, there are NO tangible benefit to drilling a tunnel beneath residential homes — especially homes in a Very High Fire Severity Hazard Zone (VHFSHZ).

METRO CLAIMS ITS PROCESS TO PUTTING OUT TUNNEL FIRES:

Fires in tunnel are a reality and Metro pointed this potential for fires by a press release that describes how good they are at putting out tunnel fires. What Metro’s announcement reveals is FIRES do occur in tunnels. This fact is why there should NEVER be a subway under a residential community when there are viable alternatives.

Click here to read to UCLA’s Formal Comments on the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project.

Click here to link to Bel-Air Associations’s Metro Scoping Comment Letter.