When you read this on Thursday, Oct. 29, the three newest D Line stations have been closed for six days, and Halloween is two days away. Metro shut Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega at 2 a.m. Friday, Oct. 23. They reopen at 4 a.m. Monday, Nov. 2. That puts Museum Row's biggest weekend of the fall inside the closure. Metro is still keeping one thing running. Scheduled activities on the Wilshire/Fairfax station plaza continue, and that includes a Día de los Muertos festival on Halloween itself.
The stations opened in May. Five months later, the Fairfax plaza has a calendar that holds even with no trains running underneath it.
Why the trains stopped
Metro's notice on The Source explains the reason. To open the three stations in May, Metro installed temporary electrical equipment at Wilshire/La Brea. Crews are now replacing it with permanent equipment, and that means cutting power to the whole station. Metro is also using the closure to connect systems for the next D Line extension, to Beverly Hills and Century City.
Until the stations reopen, the D Line runs only between Union Station and Wilshire/Western. The replacement service works like this:
- Line 855 shuttle buses connect Wilshire/Western with all three closed stations, every 10 minutes.
- Metro Bus Lines 20 and 720 keep their normal service along Wilshire Boulevard.
- The free Metro app is where Metro sends riders for trip planning, and alerts.metro.net carries service updates.
"Please allow extra travel time."
That's Metro's one-line advice in the notice. Along Wilshire, the bus lines that ran before May are still running, so the closure mostly sends trips back to the way they worked before the stations opened.
What the closure leaves running at each station
The two Miracle Mile stations get different treatment. At Wilshire/La Brea, the whole station is without power, and plaza activities pause until it reopens. Wilshire/Fairfax keeps its schedule.
| Wilshire/La Brea | Wilshire/Fairfax | |
|---|---|---|
| Trains | Closed until 4 a.m. Nov. 2 | Closed until 4 a.m. Nov. 2 |
| Line 855 shuttle | Yes, every 10 minutes | Yes, every 10 minutes |
| Plaza activities | Paused until reopening | Continuing as scheduled |
| Halloween programming | None during closure | LATINAfest at Metro: Día de los Muertos, Oct. 31 |
The La Brea pause covers a full program. Metro's May and June schedule there listed Small Shop's local-vendor market on Mondays and Tuesdays from 8 a.m. to noon, Crenshaw Coffee on weekdays from 7 to 11 a.m., and a Farm Habit farmers market on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Metro also scheduled monthly PIKL LA pickleball at both stations on second Thursdays. Those schedules covered the stations' first months, so confirm the current lineup once La Brea reopens.
At Fairfax, the Farm Habit Farmers Market has run every Tuesday since May 12, from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. The market listing describes locally grown produce, handcrafted goods, ready-to-eat food and small-business shopping. The plaza already ran one closure-week event, Bake to the Future, an Asian-inspired dessert and pastry pop-up on Sunday, Oct. 25. The next Tuesday market falls on Nov. 3, the day after the trains come back.
Halloween weekend, block by block
Most of the remaining Halloween programming sits on the 6000 block of Wilshire, close to the Fairfax plaza. Here is what's left from Friday on.
Friday, Oct. 30
- Escape the Petersen at the Petersen Automotive Museum, 6060 Wilshire Blvd.
Saturday, Oct. 31
- Halloween Theme Day at the Petersen.
- LATINAfest at Metro: Día de los Muertos on the Wilshire/Fairfax plaza. Metro hasn't posted hours, so check before you go. LATINAFest's founders are Bel Hernandez Castillo and Naibe Reynoso. The festival previewed at the same station in May with 25 Latina-owned businesses, according to the Los Angeles Times.
- Museum After Dark at the Academy Museum, 7 p.m. It's a goth-themed after-hours party with cocktails, tarot readings and a screening of The Craft. It's listed as sold out.
- Last night of Fanny's horror-film cocktail menu at 6067 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Press reported that the menu was created alongside the Academy Museum's exhibition The Horror Show and runs through Oct. 31.
All of this connects back to the Academy Museum's The Horror Show. The exhibition leads visitors down "The Hallway" into six themed galleries: Gothic, Psychological, Science, Slasher, Religion and Ghosts. The museum advises parental guidance because some content may disturb visitors.
Halloween falls on a Saturday, so the La Brea Tar Pits' weekday construction schedule of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. won't overlap with the evening. The Tar Pits museum is closed for construction, but much of the outdoor area of Hancock Park is still open.
The museum discount still works during the closure
The Metro Art Culture Pass is still valid while the stations are closed. Metro says you can reach the participating Miracle Mile museums on the Line 855 shuttles or on Bus Lines 20 and 720. The perks can be redeemed through April 30, 2027, subject to availability and restrictions.
| Museum | Culture Pass perk |
|---|---|
| Academy Museum of Motion Pictures | $2 off admission, free gift with a $50+ store purchase, event access |
| LACMA | $2 off admission, event access |
| Petersen Automotive Museum | $2 off admission, 10% off at Meyers Manx Café, event access |
| Craft Contemporary | $2 off admission, 10% off on-site shop purchases, event access |
| La Brea Tar Pits | While the museum is closed: 15% off NHMLAC memberships, 10% off at the Natural History Museum shop, event access |
Full details are on Metro Art's Culture Pass page.
After Nov. 2, the calendar picks up again
Trains return at 4 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 2. One service note carries past the reopening. Since the weekend of Oct. 10–11, the B and D Lines have run every 20 minutes on select weekends while Metro installs communications systems and does track maintenance. Metro says that work won't happen on holiday weekends.
The November calendar along the Mile, in date order:
- Nov. 7, 12:30 p.m. Family Día de Muertos workshop at the Academy Museum.
- Nov. 13 A horror-culture conversation at noon and Queer for Fear Live! at 4 p.m., both at the Academy Museum.
- Nov. 14, 2 p.m. Inside Horror with Michael Goi in the Academy Museum galleries.
- Nov. 15 LACMA opens Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living in the Resnick Pavilion at 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Press reports more than 120 archival drawings, photographs and other materials, on view through May 31, 2027.
- Nov. 22 Cars & Bids Festival at the Petersen.
LACMA also has The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990 underway, a large-scale exhibition of more than 60 works. It held member previews Oct. 15–17. On the same campus, LACMA announced on Oct. 5 that Erewhon's café is now permanent. It started as an inaugural pop-up, and the deal adds a smoothie sold only at the LACMA café, plus a limited-edition apparel line.
The Tar Pits will take longer. The Mammoth Phase is active now, with grading, excavation, building deconstruction, soil remediation and storm-drain work. The project plan calls for phased park access, and the institution expects the full campus and the Page Museum to reopen in 2028.
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