K Line North will provide high quality rail service to communities like West Hollywood which don't currently have easy access to regional freeways or existing Metro rail lines. Metro has already invested in the B (Red), D (Purple), E (Expo), and C (Green) Lines and Crenshaw North would link them all together making the regional rail system more useful for more people. With connections planned to these four other Metro rail lines from the South Bay to the San Fernando Valley, K Line North will close a Gap in the Metro system and unlock the heart of LA!

Despite running through some of the densest and most congested areas in the region, K Line North will mostly run underground where it can’t be bogged down in notorious LA Traffic. That separation will allow it to get tens of thousands of Angelenos and Wehoans where they need to go faster and more reliably than existing buses or driving. Imagine a trip from Hollywood to Cedars-Sinai. By car you might do that in 14-35 minutes depending on traffic plus more time to find parking. On existing buses that trip will take more like 30-45 minutes. With K Line North? 8 minutes. Every time. Even on a Friday at 5:00 pm.

K Line North will provide an alternative to three of the 20 most congested bus corridors in the County: Santa Monica Blvd. (the most congested bus corridor countywide), Fairfax Ave. (5th), and La Cienega Blvd. (11th).

We all need to drive less if we’re serious about addressing climate change. K Line North will make it easier to do that by providing fast and efficient travel options to more people and more places.

By making transit a better and  more competitive option, Crenshaw North will help the City and the region meet our climate goals. Metro rail  is powered by clean electric power and Metro estimates Crenshaw North could replace over 338 thousand vehicle miles traveled (VMT) daily. That means over 123 million VMT annually! This movement to cleaner transportation translates to lower greenhouse gas emissions and cleaner air for all of us.

K Line North would directly connect historically underserved communities to major job centers in Mid City, West Hollywood, and Hollywood. Depending on the route selected, Metro estimates that anywhere from 21,000 to 64,500 jobs would be in walking distance to new Metro rail stations. Jobs along the line would include a huge range of industries such as medical jobs at Cedars-Sinai, office and design jobs at the Pacific Design Center, hospitality jobs in WeHo, and entertainment jobs in Hollywood. Moreover, K Line North will connect communities along the Crenshaw/LAX Line to onward connections along Metro’s under construction D Line (Purple) extension which will serve additional major job centers in Beverly Hills, Century City, and Westwood.

K Line North will serve as a “wellness line” connecting major healthcare facilities like Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (the 4th largest employer in Los Angeles County!), Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Hills, and St. John’s Well Child and Family Center to the regional transit network. This level of fast and reliable access to critical healthcare services and related job centers will expand access to healthcare for communities up and down the future Metro line.

K Line North will expand high-quality transit access to places Angelenos, Wehoans, and visitors already want to go including regional cultural destinations like the Hollywood Bowl, LACMA and Museum Row in Miracle Mile, The Forum and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, and the upcoming Destination Crenshaw project.