Politics & Government

Metro Amendment Allows Gold Line to Progress

Stalled by a lawsuit against the state, the Gold Line Foothill Extension can now move forward after the MTA passed an amendment to its funding agreement Thursday, an official said.

The Gold Line Construction Authority effectively circumvented a lawsuit that threatened to cause millions in delays for the Gold Line Foothill Extension when the Metrolpolitan Transit Authority amended its funding agreement Thursday.

Habib Balian, GLCA's CEO, said in an email Thursday that the MTA had approved an amendment to the agency's funding system that gives Gold Line officials access to $208 million to continue building the Foothill Extension from Pasadena to Azusa.

"The Authority-requested amendment allows the design and preconstruction work to start while we continue to work toward completing the last funding agreement conditions related to assemblage of the Maintenance and Operations facility real estate," Balian wrote, referring to an agreement with the city of Monrovia to acquire land for a maintenance facility needed for the Foothill extension to progress.

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The deal reached with Monrovia was stalled when the California Supreme Court froze the assets of city redevelopment agencies as . The GLCA previously needed to acquire Monrovia's land in order to proceed with the Foothill Extension, but the amendment presumably gets rid of that requirement.

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