Riding the D in Los Angeles: city famous for traffic hopes new subway stations will be a ‘game changer’

Transit advocates laud first stations to open in city in more than 25 years, with World Cup and Olympics coming to town The roughly 12-mile (19km) drive along Wilshire Boulevard from Los Angeles’s downtown core to its Westside region can be a soul-crushing experience. The road is among the busiest in Los Angeles, winding through Westlake, Koreatown, the famed Miracle Mile, Beverly Hills, Century City, Westwood and Santa Monica before ending at the bluffs overlooking the Pacific coast highway, a...