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The real problem with the Wilshire Metro Red line was during tunneling, when the workers hit a pocket of natural gas and blew up a discount clothing store.
So far as I know that's never happened during any other subway excavation. But the LA basin is a seismically and petrologically and otherwise weird place, and residents at the time were justifiably concerned their house might be next.
It's true that Waxman partly caved to the NIMBYs and rich Beverly Hills types who didn't want "those people" riding in on the subway to steal their TVs, but he's far from the worst offender.
The real problem with the Wilshire Metro Red line was that, during tunneling, they hit a pocket of natural gas and blew up a discount clothing store.
So far as I know that's never happened during any other subway excavation. But the LA basin is a seismically and petrologically and otherwise weird place, and residents at the time were justifiably concerned their house might be next.
It's true that Waxman partly caved to the NIMBYs and rich Beverly Hills types who didn't want "those people" riding in on the subway to steal their TVs, but he's far from the worst offender.
