Constructing the Future: Regional Connector Transit Project
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Metro’s building the missing link and bringing more rail to downtown LA. The Regional Connector Transit Project will connect two major rail lines and add three new stations in the heart of LA, and is scheduled to open in 2022.
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It's 2024 and the Regional Connector is awesome! Glad they did all the work to complete it!
Just three more years now. Can't wait to see how this impacts ridership and commute patterns.
Very exciting ,they also found a mammoth skeleton 20 feet underground near La Brea .Los Angeles 10,000 years ago was a wild place.
It’s been 3 years
@@Mr.Nefarioussness and still nothing
@@Geographydude337 Relax! The Regional Connector will be open between this coming March and April of this year.
@@tyrese3745 wait really
Great job Metro 👍
Great update on this project, what would be spectacular to see is having a Metro rail train going to different locations every twenty five minutes. Azusa to Long Beach | Azusa to Santa Monica | Azusa to East Los Angeles via Metro's Regional Connector. We will be ready to see the final product soon enough.
The Metropolitan Network I think it’s AZUZA to LONG BEACH and SANTA MONICA TO EAST LA. If you’re going to East LA you’d connect at little Tokyo. I believe by 2028 the gold line will no longer be the gold line.
Or Montclair to long Beach. They're is a proposal for the train to go to Ontario Airport. From Ontario to Long Beach, now that would be a long train ride.
UPDATE - The Regional Connector with its three new stations (Little Tokyo/Arts District, Historic Broadway and Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill) officially opens today at 12 Noon PST.
I got to work on this project for 3 months..
Good job metro! Tap with pride!
Every time you ride! You'll avoid penalties and fines and help us keep fares low and run better service. One tap card per rider is required
@@MariaDiaz-zp3fr Los Angeles once had 1,000 miles of tracks which was the original Pacific Electric Railway and the yellow cars before Los Angeles had freeways built for cars. Now that Pacific Electric Railway and the yellow cars no longer exist, Metro did a good job of bringing rail back to Los Angeles and expanding it over the years since the original street cars or trolleys were removed from service in 1963.
We need this ASAP ,it is very long over due..I'd rather take the train then sit in traffic on 10 freeway.
Great info!
The LA metro sure has expanded since I was there in 2005-2006.. I used to ride the red line to/from Hollywood/vine station all the time. I miss LA
Thank you for your hard work, we appreciate it.
Nice! Anything to somehow relieve traffic and get people out of the cars.
Great update video; thank you.
Amazing!
The New Metro A Line (Blue) route APU/Citrus College station - Downtown Long Beach
The New Metro E Line (Expo) route: Santa Monica - East Los Angeles
There should be more projects like this in this city. People are so sick of driving
@j12torts These project are really nothing new. Los Angeles used to have trains long before freeways were built. These trains were the original Pacific Electric Railway and the yellow cars that ran from the 1800's all the way up to the 1950's and early 1960's.
@@Hotters9060Blame Caltrans.
This is awesome
Imagine if Metro moved forward with this plan around 2008 or much earlier? This line would've open earlier.
Safety begin's with you
Imagine if they place a train route going north towards Atwater village towards Glendale & further up.
Yes it can be like an L Train from Hollywood Blvd to Los Feliz then underground to Glendale and Atwater.It would be gr8 cause the I5 and 134 freeways suck.
@@skywolf2012 I am so glad that Los Angeles brought trains and street cars or trolleys back after the last ones ran in 1963. Here in Los Angeles there is too much traffic and not everybody can afford to buy a vehicle and pay insurance.
So if the blue line is taking over the gold line then what’s going to happen to the gold line?
Metro Fans Productions Gold Line will take control of the Expo Line Section
By Frosty so there won’t be a Expo Line anymore? Huh interesting now the blue line broke the record for the longest LA Metro line Long Beach to Montclair (2027)
Metro Fans Productions 2026*
The Gold color will be in place in the current line, but idk if it’ll still be called the Expo Line while it keeps the Gold color.
Quite possibly all the colored rail IDs will be consolidated into numbers.
By the time the project is finished, Metro will rename all rail lines to letters. The Expo Coloring will be gone, but it will retain the signature E and changed to gold. The Expo Line rails will be connected to the 7 Eastside Stations, get the gold color, and will be renamed to the E Line.
Please, please, please, Lets do something about the Sepulveda pass! An elevated bike path, or a monorail or anything, but folks in the Valley we really need a quick connection to the West side!
I am glad they are building this. The question is, why did they not build this sooner? Real bright idea, make people coming from the Eastside transfer to the Red Line at Union Station and then transfer again to the Blue/Expo Lines at 7th Street. That’s too much for people trying to get to the beach. Did they honestly think people weren’t gonna go further into downtown than 7th Street? 2 years isn’t enough time for all those poor souls to make two transfers.
They started to build it with tail tracks at 7th St Station, but in the late 90's property interests on the westside didn't want trashy transit people hurting their propery values, so Zev Yaroslavsky passed a subway ban for use of 1980 Prop A funds, so they had to stop the project.
I liked this for some odd reason more?
@IwinGloryX This is really nothing new. Los Angeles had trains or street cars since about the 1800's. Those original trains were known as Pacific Electric Railway and the yellow cars. These trains were taken out of service and dismantled because of people having the choice to drive cars instead. There is too much traffic and congestion and I am glad that Los Angeles brought back the trains and street cars so that people who do not have money to buy a car can get around the city easily.
I will open at 2023.
U know that means, ansaldobreda p2550 will become blue line cars
Yeah as well Nippoin Sharyos P2020 In the Gold Line. As well, Expo will have p2550 too.
@@TheVideoEditorGuy6579 I miss the original P865 Nippon Sharyo cars from 1989 or 1990 when the original blue line opened 30 years after Pacific Electric Railway and yellow cars were dismantled in 1961 and 1963. Too bad the P865's won't be a part of the new Regional Connector when it opens next year or year after.
@@TheVideoEditorGuy6579 I miss the original P865 Nippo Sharyo cars from 1989 or 1990 when the original blue line opened 30 years after Pacific Electric Railway and yellow cars were dismantled in 1961 and 1963. Too bad the P865's won't be a part of the new Regional Connector when it opens next year or year after.
Is it open yet it's 2023.
As soon as they finished the huge overdue earthquake hits...
Earthquakes do nothing underground.
Subways are immune to strong earthquakes
Subways are built to protect people during an Earthquake
It's too expensive to ride the MTA.
You mean New York MTA?
@@Cards8114 It is more expensive owning a personal vehicle than riding the Metro.
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