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Metro Expo Line to begin service to Santa Monica on May 20
After a six-decade hiatus, passenger rail service will return to the traffic-choked Westside in May.
The $1.5-billion, 6.6-mile extension of the Expo Line will begin running to Santa Monica on May 20, marking the first time that passenger trains have traveled between downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean since the demise of Los Angeles County’s extensive streetcar network in the 1950s.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority sees the Expo Line, which will run through some of the Southland’s most congested areas, as key to its goal to draw Angelenos out of their cars and onto public transportation. The light-rail line will connect the Pacific Ocean and the employment centers west of the 405 Freeway to L.A.’s steadily expanding mass transit network.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-expo-line-santa-monica-opening-date-20160224-story.html
After a six-decade hiatus, passenger rail service will return to the traffic-choked Westside in May.
The $1.5-billion, 6.6-mile extension of the Expo Line will begin running to Santa Monica on May 20, marking the first time that passenger trains have traveled between downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean since the demise of Los Angeles County’s extensive streetcar network in the 1950s.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority sees the Expo Line, which will run through some of the Southland’s most congested areas, as key to its goal to draw Angelenos out of their cars and onto public transportation. The light-rail line will connect the Pacific Ocean and the employment centers west of the 405 Freeway to L.A.’s steadily expanding mass transit network.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-expo-line-santa-monica-opening-date-20160224-story.html