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Despite winning the mayor’s race last night by a comfortable margin, Eric Garcetti lost the black vote 71 percent to 29 percent with Crenshaw Line decisions affecting the black community coming up in the first days of his administration.

After a detailed examination of the candidates, including closed-door interviews with both Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel, the community group that has led the advocacy efforts for a Leimert Park Village Station and 11-block Crenshaw Boulevard tunnel on the Crenshaw-LAX light rail line has released their scorecard of the two mayoral candidates ahead of Tuesday’s runoff.

Three weeks before Election Day, where do Los Angeles mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel stand on the Crenshaw Boulevard tunnel and Leimert Park Village Station? What are their stances on this key issue? Attend our community organizing meeting at 6:30 on Thursday at Christ Temple Church, 3125 W. 54th St., two blocks east of Crenshaw Boulevard, to find out...

Here is the latest from the gang that claims "there's no money" to add resources to the Crenshaw-LAX light rail Line for a station at the African-American cultural center of the region (Leimert Park Village) and underground the line for 11 blocks in Park Mesa Heights to preserve and enhance the region's last black business corridor (Crenshaw Boulevard).

The Crenshaw Subway Coalition — a community group that filed a lawsuit against the MTA last month for allegedly failing to appropriately plan the $1.7 billion Crenshaw-LAX Light Rail Line – held a standing-room-only meeting last night.

Fired with motivation, the Crenshaw Subway Coalition — spanning residents, merchants, property owners and stakeholders concerned about the future of Crenshaw Boulevard and Leimert Park Village — last Friday took the historic step of filing a lawsuit against the Mayor Villaraigosa-led MTA for allegedly violating environmental and civil rights laws when the MTA board approved the Crenshaw-LAX light rail project on Sept. 22.

News item: South L.A. community group files lawsuit to halt construction of one of the 14 national infrastructure projects fast-tracked by the Obama Administration for violations of environmental and civil rights laws

[Emergency meeting of Crenshaw Subway Coalition tonight, 6:30 to 8:30, U.S. Bank, Community Room, 5760 Crenshaw Blvd.]

At next Thursday's MTA board meeting, County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, a member of the board, will offer a motion to address the two major remaining design issues for the proposed Crenshaw-LAX Light Rail, scheduled to begin construction next year.

Influential community groups, stakeholders and rail safety advocates are cautiously optimistic about news that MTA has secured a $546 million loan from the federal government to accelerate the construction of the $1.6 billion Crenshaw-LAX light rail line.