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The history of the Los Angeles Metro Rail and Busway system begins in the early 1970s, when the traffic-choked region began planning a rapid transit system. The first dedicated busway opened along I-10 in 1973, and the region's first light rail line, the Blue Line (now the A Line) opened in 1990. Today the system includes over 160 miles (260 km ...
The Los Angeles Metro Rail is an urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County, California in the United States. It consists of six lines: four light rail lines (the A, C, E and K lines) and two rapid transit lines (the B and D lines), serving a total of 101 stations. The system connects with the Metro Busway bus rapid transit system ...
The next Metro Rail line, the rapid transit Red Line, opened on January 30, 1993, between Union Station and Westlake/ MacArthur Park station. [ 7] The light rail Green Line, the system's third line, opened on August 12, 1995 from Norwalk to Redondo Beach stations. [ 8] Metro Rail's next expansion occurred on May 22, 1996, when the Red Line ...
B Line (Los Angeles Metro) 70 mph (110 km/h) ( max.) The B Line (formerly the Red Line from 1993–2020) is a fully underground 14.7 mi (23.7 km) [1] rapid transit line operating in Los Angeles, running between North Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles. It is one of six lines in the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, operated by the Los Angeles ...
D Line (Los Angeles Metro) 55 mph (89 km/h) ( max.) The D Line (formerly the Red Line from 1993–2006 and the Purple Line from 2006–2020) is a fully underground 5.1-mile (8.2 km) [ 1] rapid transit line operating in Los Angeles, running between Koreatown and Downtown Los Angeles. It is one of six lines on the Metro Rail system, operated by ...
Los Angeles Union Station is the main train station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest passenger rail terminal in the Western United States. [ 6] It opened in May 1939 as the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, replacing La Grande Station and Central Station . Approved in a controversial ballot measure in 1926 and built in the 1930s ...
The Regional Connector Transit Project constructed a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) light rail tunnel for the Los Angeles Metro Rail system in Downtown Los Angeles. It connected the A and E lines with the former L Line. The A and E lines previously both terminated at 7th Street/Metro Center station, coming from Long Beach and Santa Monica, respectively ...
K Line (Los Angeles Metro) 55 mph (89 km/h) ( max.) The K Line is a 5.9-mile (9.5 km) [3] light rail line running north–south between the Jefferson Park and Westchester neighborhoods of Los Angeles, California, passing through various South Los Angeles neighborhoods and the city of Inglewood. It is one of six lines in the Los Angeles Metro ...