Beverly Hills by Subway This Fall: Where the D Line Can Take You From Wilshire/La Cienega

The Golden Triangle is still waiting for its subway. Construction walls line both sides of Wilshire Boulevard at Beverly Drive, and Metro's latest schedule puts that station's opening in spring 2027. Meanwhile, at the city's eastern edge, a train has run since May. The Wilshire/La Cienega station puts most of Los Angeles's best museum calendar one stop and $1.75 away from Beverly Hills.

That has been true since spring. This fall, timing is what you need to plan around. Trains at the station stop running at 2 a.m. Friday, Oct. 23, and return at 4 a.m. Monday, Nov. 2. Several of the season's best outings fall inside that window. Most of the rest run well into 2027.

The stop at the edge of town

Metro opened Section 1 of the D Line Subway Extension on May 8, 2026. It added three underground stations at Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega. According to the City of Beverly Hills station FAQ, the La Cienega entrance sits at the northeast corner of Wilshire and La Cienega boulevards. Beverly Press reported that crews recently put up new street signs with the Beverly Hills city logo on the traffic signals at that intersection.

The station's art points back toward the neighborhood. Metro Art commissioned three works for it:

• Todd Gray, Mining the Archive: S. Charles Lee, Architect. It covers the glass entrance plaza and the escalator landing walls. Gray pairs Lee's archival architectural drawings and historic photographs of the nearby Saban Theatre, once the Fox Wilshire Theatre, with textile patterns from many cultures.
• Soo Kim, Night / Quartz. On the platform, Kim collages her photographs of the buildings along Wilshire with images she has taken around the world.
• Mariana Castillo Deball, Four Pleated Landscapes: Fossil Ground, Woven Cienega, Medicinal Flora, and Urban Desert Fauna. Two collages run along the north and south walls of the concourse.

Riding is simple. Metro's fares page lists a $1.75 one-way fare and free transfers within two hours, though not for round trips. Fares cap at $5 a day and $18 for seven days. Metro's opening-week rider guide says each new station has bike lockers. The guide doesn't list a dedicated Metro parking lot. The city's FAQ says no new parking structures were proposed at the stations and points riders to existing parking within half a mile.

Ten days without trains, and what still runs

Metro's closure notice explains that the stations opened in May on temporary electrical equipment at Wilshire/La Brea. Crews are now putting in the permanent equipment, which means cutting power to that station. Metro is also using the closure to connect systems for the next extension into Beverly Hills and Century City.

The same notice says B and D Line trains run every 20 minutes on some weekends starting Oct. 10–11 while crews install communications systems and maintain track. No work is planned on holiday weekends. Check alerts.metro.net before a Saturday outing.

One stop east: the calendar through December

Metro describes Wilshire/Fairfax as steps from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Craft Contemporary, LACMA, La Brea Tar Pits and the Petersen Automotive Museum. The Grove, the Original Farmers Market and Holocaust Museum LA are a short walk or bus ride beyond. Here is what's on, by date:

The first four weeks of that table fall partly inside the closure. Monster Mash, Bake to the Future and both Halloween events all happen while trains are stopped. Metro says the Wilshire/Fairfax events will go ahead, so you can reach them on the Line 855 shuttle or on Bus Lines 20 and 720. The Tar Pits museum building is closed for construction, but much of the surrounding Hancock Park is open, and the Insider Tour listings end Nov. 1.

Several shows run long enough that the closure doesn't matter. At the Academy Museum, Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon runs through Feb. 28, 2027, and The Horror Show through July 25, 2027. At LACMA's Resnick Pavilion, Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias is up through March 14, 2027. The Kitchen and Its Discontents closes the same day, and Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō & NUNO closes March 7. Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise runs through Jan. 3, 2027.

Then there's the weekly fixture. Farm Habit runs a farmers market at Wilshire/Fairfax on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. It started May 12, and Metro has confirmed it will keep running during the closure.

Making the museum discount count

The Metro Art Culture Pass is a set of reloadable TAP cards. Each card belongs to one venue, and you show it at that venue to get its offers. Supplies are limited to one card per person, and the offers are good through April 30, 2027. Every admission perk is a discount, not free entry:

• Academy Museum: $2 off admission, a free gift with a museum store purchase of $50 or more, and special event access. Ask for the card at the Academy Museum Store.
• LACMA: $2 off admission and special event access. Ask at the ticket office.
• Petersen Automotive Museum: $2 off admission and 10% off at the Meyers Manx Café. Ask at the front desk.
• Craft Contemporary: $2 off admission and 10% off at The Egg & The Eye Shop. The front desk hands out cards to members and to anyone buying admission or shopping there.
• La Brea Tar Pits: 15% off NHMLAC memberships and 10% off at the Natural History Museum shop. This card comes from the Natural History Museum ticketing desk in Exposition Park, not from the Tar Pits.

Here's the math. A round trip from La Cienega costs $3.50 at the regular fare, and the $2 discount at the door covers more than half of it. Metro says the pass stays valid during the closure, and the museums can be reached by shuttle or by Bus Lines 20 and 720.

On the Beverly Hills side of the turnstile

The station is also a landmark for evenings that never go underground. In its April guide to the extension, the Los Angeles Times put Lawry's the Prime Rib about 0.3 miles and a seven-minute walk from Wilshire/La Cienega. The Fine Arts Theatre was the same distance, about a six-minute walk.

The Saban Theatre, the building in Todd Gray's entrance artwork, has a full calendar for the rest of the year:

• Oct. 24: Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour, 8 p.m. details
• Oct. 25: VOIC3S: The Repeat, with Sofronio Vasquez, Martin Nievera and Jed Madela, 7 p.m. details
• Nov. 7: The Musical Box...and Then There was Phil, 8 p.m. details
• Nov. 14: Broadway Showstoppers, 8 p.m. details
• Dec. 6: Layali Zaman Orchestra Winter Concert, 7 p.m. details
• Dec. 12 and 13: GMCLA's A Very Dolly Holiday, at 7 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. for the Sunday matinee. details

The two October shows land on the closure's first weekend. That makes no difference if you walk there.

When the Golden Triangle gets its own stop

Metro's September 2026 community meeting presentation forecasts that Section 2 will open in spring 2027, with stations at Beverly Drive and Century City. The city says Metro adopted the name "Beverly Dr Station" on May 22, 2025. Its entrance will be southwest of Wilshire and Reeves, serving the Golden Triangle and Rodeo Drive. Westwood is expected to follow in fall 2027.

Until then, the construction is part of the commute. As of Oct. 8, Beverly Press reported that crews were working behind K-rail on both sides of Wilshire. Two lanes stayed open each way between Beverly and Crescent drives. North-side sidewalks could close, and Beverly Drive could narrow to one lane in each direction. In Century City, a sidewalk closure on the north side of Constellation Boulevard stays in place through Nov. 11. Metro's project page lists a free online webinar on the Beverly Hills stations for Nov. 18, from noon to 1 p.m.

For one more winter, the train that gets Beverly Hills to Picasso, Marilyn Monroe and a Tuesday farmers market leaves from La Cienega. If you'd like to talk through how the new stations fit your own routine, or what Beverly Drive station may mean for your block once it opens, Desirée Lapin is happy to share what she's watching along Wilshire. Let's Connect.