Subway Line Meets an Obstruction: Beverly Hills High School
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
July 15, 2012
NY Times
"BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The Subway to the Sea, a train that would tunnel more than 15 miles from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean, has encountered no shortage of obstacles over the years: from how to pay for it to skepticism about a huge mass transit project in a region that once ripped out trolley car tracks to make way for automobiles.
Now, a new impediment has stepped onto the tracks: Beverly Hills High School.
Beverly Hills has gone to court to block the proposed subway line from burrowing under a high school celebrated for its roster of famous graduates and its ZIP code. Beverly Hills contends that the tunnel poses a safety threat to students — the high school is built on a still-active oil field and is near an earthquake fault — and would interfere with the school district’s $3 million plan to renovate the campus..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/us...roadblock.html