The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) recently notified Sepulveda Transit Corridor Partners, a team comprising Bechtel, Meridiam Infrastructure, and American Triple I Partners, that it can proceed with pre-development agreement work for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project.
Bechtel and its engineering partners will work with more than 25 disadvantaged business enterprises, lead the engineering and constructability of its transit concept, and provide workforce training in collaboration with Metro’s training academy.
“The Sepulveda Transit Corridor project truly meets the moment in terms of Los Angeles’ immediate and long-term transit needs,” Nicolas Rubio, Meridiam CEO North America, said. “We will work closely with Metro to consider our high-capacity transit solution concept, which could potentially take cars off the road and provide the public with more options for traveling through the Sepulveda Corridor.”
Later this year, Metro will begin the project’s environmental review process and evaluate the pre-development agreement and other concept designs. If a pre-development agreement concept is selected, the private sector team that developed the concept may have an opportunity to submit a proposal to build and potentially help finance the project.
In addition, Metro will be conducting extensive, ongoing public feedback and technical investigation and analysis during the process.