Letter to the Editor: Former Beverly Hills Mayor Calls for Santa Monica Boulevard Subway Alignment

This particular Metro plan deprives the city from ever expanding the high school and building anything over the Metro easement. This is our disaster relief center where people congregate in an emergency. Now our population is small, but 50-100 years from now that might not be the case. 

The that Metro is proposing could easily be solved by placing the Metro north on and putting in a monorail system above ground to send people into the different areas of Century City. Until the monorail was provided for, they could use a DASH shuttle as they have effectively done in downtown Los Angeles.

The Santa Monica Boulevard placement of the Metro, as originally proposed, keeps it farther away from the fault line, the abandoned oil wells and from venting up into a school yard. 

L.A. has provided no new fire and police responders to help in an emergency. The same fire stations have been in place on the Westside for the last 60 years, but since then the entire Wilshire Corridor has been built, the density expanded at an exponential rate and the fire station in Century City on the back lot was removed. Our City is safety conscious for your sake and your life. You might just be riding on the Metro when a problem occurs and the liability coverage is only $200 million. If 100 people are hurt or  killed and buildings destroyed, the $200 million limit isn't enough. As City officials, it is our mission to protect the public at all times. 

Nancy Krasne, Former Mayor, City of Beverly Hills