page_title: B Line (Los Angeles Metro)
section_title: Potential future extensions
hierarchical_section_title: B Line (Los Angeles Metro) / Potential future extensions
caption_attribution_description: English: Eastbound platform at Universal City Station.
context_page_description: The B Line is a heavy rail subway line operating in Los Angeles, running between Downtown Los Angeles and North Hollywood. It is one of six lines on the Metro Rail system, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
  The Metro B Line is one of the city's two fully-underground subway lines. Although they separate in Koreatown, the two subway lines share tracks through Downtown Los Angeles. As of 2019, the combined B and D lines averaged 133,413 boardings per weekday.
  The B Line was originally branded as the Hollywood branch of the Red Line. In 2006, the Purple Line was instituted as its own line, separate from the Red Line. In 2020, the Red Line was renamed to the B Line while retaining the color red in its circle icon.
context_section_description: The route currently known as the B Line was originally intended to continue beyond its eastern terminus at Union Station to East Los Angeles. At the north end of the route, the B Line was to turn west from North Hollywood station toward Warner Center. Trouble during the B Line's construction, including a 1995 sinkhole that led to the project switching to a new contractor, led to a 1998 ballot proposition that banned revenue from existing sales taxes being used to dig subway tunnels in Los Angeles County, which put an end to expansion of the B Line for the then foreseeable future. The route to Warner Center was turned into the G Line, a bus rapid transitway (BRT) service.
  In the early 21st century, new sales tax Measures R and M were approved by voters to specifically provide funds for rail development. While the B Line does not figure into currently active expansion plans, several concepts have been proposed that would build off of it.
caption: Eastbound platform at Universal City Station
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