{"id":70083,"date":"2025-01-22T16:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T00:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=70083"},"modified":"2025-01-22T16:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T00:43:23","slug":"hahn-celebrates-federal-support-for-southeast-gateway-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=70083","title":{"rendered":"Hahn Celebrates Federal Support for Southeast Gateway Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>\u201cLetter of No Prejudice\u201d could mean $985 million toward new rail line<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Los Angeles, CA<\/strong> <strong>(January 21, 2025)<\/strong>\u2013 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chair of the Metro Board and Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn is celebrating news that last week the Federal Transit Authority approved a Letter of No Prejudice for the Southeast Gateway Line. This means that Los Angeles Metro could be eligible for up to $985 million in federal reimbursement for funds spent on construction of early critical activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThis is a huge vote of confidence in the Southeast Gateway Line and could mean nearly $1 Billion toward its construction,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said Supervisor Janice Hahn.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI could not be more grateful for the support we received for this project from the Biden Administration and our Congressional champions like Congressman Robert Garcia and Senator Alex Padilla. The Southeast Gateway Line is going to be transformative for the communities up and down this line, from Artesia to Union Station \u2013 many of whom don\u2019t own cars and rely on transit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Letter of No Prejudice was approved in a letter to Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins from FTA Regional Administrator Ray Tellis dated January 17, 2025. Early critical construction activities eligible for possible federal reimbursement with this approval includes hazardous materials abatement,\u00a0railroad relocation,\u00a0and grade crossings\u00a0for the Southeast Gateway Line project among other early construction work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In October 2024, Hahn, Metro officials, and local, state, and federal supporters broke ground on utility relocation for the Southeast Gateway Line. \u00a0The Southeast Gateway Line will connect southeast LA County to Downtown Los Angeles from Artesia through Cerritos, Bellflower, Paramount, Downey, South Gate, Cudahy, Bell, Huntington Park, and Vernon to Union Station. Nearly half the residents in the neighborhoods that will be served by this line live below the poverty level, including one-in-five residents who are transit dependent and don\u2019t have access to their own car. The Southeast Gateway Line was included in both voter-approved sales tax measures Measure R and Measure M with nearly $2 billion in local sales tax going toward its construction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLetter of No Prejudice\u201d could mean&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70084,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70083\/revisions\/70084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}