📋 Tender Overview
Location: Westside Cities
Phase: Construction
Type: Better Transit
Forecasted Opening: 2027
The project will connect two previous subway sections through Koreatown, Beverly Hills and Century City and extend it another two-and-a-half miles to Westwood. Metro will build new stations at Westwood/UCLA to serve Westwood Village and UCLA and another at Westwood/VA Hospital to serve the hospital campus just west of the I-405 freeway.
The last section of the Purple (D Line) Extension Transit Project will add 2-56 miles of new rail to Metro's system and connect downtown Los Angeles to the Westside. Two new stations will be added at Wilshire/Westwood and on the US. Department of Veterans Affairs property. Section 3 received the approval to move forward by Metro's Board in 2016.
Project construction began in 2019. The Metro Purple (D Line) Extension Transit Project is being built in three sections:
Section 1: Wilshire/La Brea Station, Wilshire/Fairfax Station and Wilshire/La Cienega Station; slated to open in 2024.
Section 2: Wilshire/Rodeo Station and Century City/Constellation Station; slated to open in 2025.
Section 3: Westwood/UCLA Station and Westwood/VA Hospital Station; slated to open in 2027.
