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Article: MTA failed to test before tunnel realignment. (Metropolitan Transportation Authority; soil test)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 3, 1995
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It passed on sinkhole site even after quake woes
Despite the sinkage along Hollywood Boulevard in the summer of 1994, which the Metropolitan Transportation Authority blamed on soil conditions brought on by the Northridge earthquake, the MTA did no soil tests before it set about realigning the subway tunnel in the Vermont Avenue area - now the site of a house-size sinkhole.
And the Business Journal has learned that shortly after Metro Rail crews began working on the Vermont/Hollywood realignment (about two weeks before the June 22 sink-hole incident), a property owner in the area began reporting that water was leaking into the basement of her apartment ...