A brush fire that broke out in the San Fernando Valley Wednesday afternoon injured one person, caused a shutdown of an LA Metro line and encroached on structures before forward progress was stopped.

Ridership numbers for the B Line and D Line, which Metro combines, were more than 1.8 million in March. The route sees more than 65,000 daily riders on average. Advertisement.

Los Angeles Metro’s D Line (the purple one) will be closed from May 17 to July 25 to complete the first leg of the extension. Three new D Line stops should be ready for riders later this year.

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CBS News Los Angeles Live. As Los Angeles Metro continues work on the D Line Subway Extension Project, the D, or Purple Line will close for a little over two months beginning May 17.

Beginning Saturday, some service on the Metro C (Green) Line will be suspended in phases so the agency can replace the light rail power lines between the Hawthorne/Lennox and Redondo Beach stations.

The Metro K Line, formerly known as the Crenshaw/LAX line, is finally finished and will open to the public on Oct. 7, Metro officials announced Thursday.