Long long overdue... LA needs tons more light rail, heavy rail and streetcar/tram lines including anywhere they were removed during the Yellow and Red car eras... With way more people, congestion and pollution a massive investment in public RAIL is the only way to get people out of their cars and onto transit!
@slimshady6359 But several of the more important ones remain and are owned by LA Metro, including this one. Same is true for the ROW being used on the G line and the upcoming Southeast Gateway line. The E and A lines also partially use old Red Car ROWs.
@@mrxman581 they're all important.. that new line they're talking about has a right away all the way through Long Beach and all the way through seal Beach and all the way through Huntington Beach and it ended up where Newport Beach... We need to work on inner city rail way more than some high-speed train to two shit hole cities
This is great to see! I hope that very soon we can start talking more about extending the C Line east to connect with Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs. A direct light rail connection from Metrolink/Amtrak to LAX would be amazing.
Yeah, this is the wrong side of the current C Line to be expanding. Directly connecting Metrolink with the C Line is much more important than this. Oh well.
@mrxman581 When the line was first constructed, leaders in the city of Norwalk refused to allow it to connect to the existing station. So ever since then, we've had a terminus with a terrible park and ride lot and a 2.5 mile missing link to that network.
So does the C line end at the Transit Center station, or does it continue north to the E line? So if I'm coming from Norwalk and want to get to the E line, do I get off on either of the two shared stations with the K line and hop on the K line to get to the E line? Or, do I just stay on the C line train all the way to the E line station? I'm asking because I could easily see myself doing this to get to Santa Monica. Thanks.
When LAX station opens, the C will end there. At the end of this year you will have a direct ride into LAX with no transfers. However, the C will end at LAX, and a transfer to the K will be required in order to get to E service. The K is mostly grade separated in this area so it shouldn’t be too long
It'd be good, and would be physically doable if all approvals existed and already fully funded. But adding it to the already existing list of projects? Done before 2084 maybe? And if we're thinking long-term extensions: keep going east from Long Beach. All the way to a Metrolink station. Build an interconnected network.
You had the greatest electric rail system in the world but you tore it out the Pacific Electric not only did you tear it out you remove the right a way as well..
It wasn't the greatest electric rail system. It was an early twentieth century trolley system that was used by real estate scammers as loss leaders to promote property development.
I'm no expert but many of the streetcars were running on the really wide boulevards that we still have today like Santa Monica Blvd. So these can and should be repurposed in the future as BRT routes at the very least.
