Why not spend much less money on restoring Pacific Electric for the 2028 Olympic now? 😡it took 20+ years to just rebuilt a new metro and stations. people can just used PE for YEARS in the meantime.
LA’s rail transit may not be the best, but they’re getting there: • They’re building the K Line from Expo/Crenshaw on the E Line to Redondo Beach on the C Line and shortening the C Line to instead terminate at the new LAX/Metro Center. Both the C and K lines will serve LAX Airport, which will get an automated people mover from the Metro Rail station to the airport terminals and they’re also constructing a people mover to SoFi Stadium. • They’re extending the A Line from APU/Citrus College in Azusa to Montclair Transit Center. • They’re extending the D Line from Wilshire/Western to Westwood/VA Hospital, which will serve a hospital, an university, and the Century City Area.
0:00 santa monica 0:16 metro passes 1:49 17th st smc st (santa monica college) 2:40 railroad crossing 3:13 railroad crossing 3:32 railroad crossing 4:19 railroad crossing 4:22 26th st begmont st (in santa monica) 4:31 railroad crossing 5:11 railroad crossing 6:58 expo /bundy st 7:49 railroad crossing 8:49 expo/ seguleda st 9:24 railroad crossing 9:54 railroad crossing 10:00 westwood ranco park st 10:34 railroad crossing 11:38 tunnel 12:52 palms st 13:42 railroad crossing 14:14 culver city (cuver city California) 15:59 la ciegnega/ Jefferson st 16:50 railroad crossing 17:28 expo/la brea st 18:28 farmdale st (explotion blvd) 18:51 railroad crossing 19:10 another metro pass 19:26 railroad crossing 19:47 expo Crenshaw st (connects to k line) (explotion blvd) 20:55 railroad crossing 21:15 railroad crossing 21:43 railroad crossing 21:51 metro pass 22:42 expo/ western st (explotion blvd) 25:03 expo /Vermont st (explotion blvd) 25:54 expo park/usc st (explotion blvd) 26:23 underground 27:31 metro passes 27:32 jefferson /usc st (explotion blvd) 29:38 railroad crossing 29:41 lattic/ortho institute st (los angeles) 32:19 metro a line passes 32:26 railroad crossing 32:30 pico st 32:38 railroad crossing and metro a line Subway time: reganel connecter time! 33:54 7th st metro center st (los angeles) 35:31 grand ave arts bunker hills st (los angeles) 37:12 historic Broadway st (los angeles) 38:48 little tokyo arts district st (los angeles) 40:30 metro pass 41:22 pico/ aliso st (east la) 42:28 marachi plaza st (east la) 43:54 soto st (east la) 46:21 railroad crossing 46:38 indiana st (east la) (boyle heights) 47:10 railroad crossing 50:13 metro passes 50:16 marvilla st (east la) 51:36 east la civic ctr st (east la) 53:05 atlantic st (atlantic) (east la) finale Ncie vid freind
What an odd mix of long and short, high and low platfoms. I guess it is historical, but it almost feels like the stops with the most sign of nearby buildings and activity get the most minimal stops, whist the double-length high platform stops seem to be just serving woodland. And I don't think a single passenger got on or off on the entire journey. Was this some sort of out of service journey, or is it very poorly patronised.
The reality is that the region this line runs is extremely unappealing to pedestrians, and as you mention, all the stops are at areas that are difficult to walk to as well. So it’s mostly just used for rush hour traffic alleviation, people drive to a parking lot and ride in (park and ride) and outside of rush hour it’s empty. It’s not the fault of the infrastructure however, there’s too many hills, there is a saying in Pittsburgh, “you can’t get there from here” and that goes for walking too, often you are met with a cliff side or large hill in the course of a 5 minute walk so many people drive because I mean yeah who wants to walk up a mountain every day?
Im so sad I didn’t get to attend this event because of dumb reasons… I’m very sad i didn’t get to say my final goodbye to the legacy fleet and I rode the BART legacy fleet when I was young and I saw them in service for many years. The legacy fleet will be missed. 1972-2024. ☹️
I rode the system back in 1974 before the modernization. I still recall being at the intersection of Liberty and Grant. My friends and I explored the South Hills riding PCC cars. From what I see,the only thing that remains is the track gauge
The cab view is so different from that from the side windows. Just from the sound, I can already smell that iconic LA Metro stench of pee mixed with cleaning products because there're often homeless people on the trains. Also kind of wish that there're express vs. local trains just like NYC subway. From my ride from Pasadena to Long Beach and from your video, I find that the operator only sounds the low Quaker horn twice at grade crossings before reaching the exclusive right of way in South LA, where the operator sounds the high horn in the iconic long-long-short-long pattern, which stops in Long Beach where the train also has to stop at traffic lights. Makes sense not to do that iconic horn signal if the train also has to stop at traffic lights. So Pasadena, South Pas, and Highland Park are quiet zones, right? But I didn't see signs saying so by the track. Probably the operator has to remember that beforehand, right? Also Pasadena, South Pas, and Highland Park have four quadrant gates, which South LA does not. Now it seems like transit can be part of environmental racism since it's not fun to hear the horn of over 200 A Line trains a day (say 6 trains per hour for 20 hours from 4 am to 12 am so 120 trains per direction) in addition to the freight trains through South LA and there were several times the A Line train hit cars in South LA, probably because it's easier to drive around the gate. Plus there's grade separation in much of Pasadena (though there were 2 crashes at California Blvd grade crossing) and in the South Bay when the C line isn't in the middle of a freeway. E line in South LA and West Adams have grade crossings, sometimes without gates. Not sure if it's statistically significant, but it seems to me that there're more grade crossings in less privileged areas.
APU / Citurs College 0:01 Azusa Downtown 1:16 Iwrindale 3:36 Duarte / City Of Hope 6:26 Monrovia 9:24 Arcadia 11:43 Sierra Madre Villa 15:53 Allen 18:52 Lake 20:37 Memorial Park 22:39 Del Mar 24:07 Filmore 25:38 South Pasedena Highland Park 31:58 Southwest Muesum 35:56 Heritage Sq 37:47 Lincoln / Cypress 39:06 Chinatown 41:32 Union Station 43:37 Little Tokyo / Arts District 47:00 Historic Brodway 48:30 Grand Av / Arts Bunker Hill 49:48 7th St Metro Center Pico 53:31 Grand / LATTC 57:38 San Pedro St 1:00:08 Washington 1:03:36 Vernon 1:05:59 Slauson 1:08:00 Florence 1:09:43 Firestone 1:11:20 103rd / Watts Towers 1:13:16 Willowbrooks / Rosa Parks 1:15:23 Compton 1:18:51 Artesia 1:21:59 Del Amo 1:26:29 Wardlow 1:30:18 Willow St 1:32:13 Pacific Coast Hwy 1:35:47 Anaheim St 1:37:26 5th St 1:39:43 1st St 1:41:23 Downtown Long Beach 1:42:58 Pacific Av 1:57:10
Wow these trains are really slow! Slowing and stopping at every little curve, even straight sections just painful! I would be curious to compare the average speeds with some similar crosstown trains like the S-Bahn in Berlin. Sure, during street crossings slow is understandable, but for grade separated right of way these things should be much faster. It's a shame.
Yeah the crowd in this seems like a bunch of children which is fine but instead of having this and be a moment to remember and reflect on the fleet it's more just a time to act obnoxious for the duration of a trip. After all those years it deserve to go out in a bit more respectful of the way.
