Los Angeles Metro on the Opening Weekend for the Regional Connector
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- In this video, we take a look at the downtown stations of the Los Angeles Metro on the first full day of operation for the Regional Connector. The Regional Connector is a new set of tunnels with three stations linking the former Blue Line and Expo Line on the west side of downtown with the former Gold Line on the east side, creating two cross-region lines now known as the A Line from Azuza to Long Beach, and the E Line from East LA to Santa Monica. The heavy rail B/D Lines (former Red Line and Purple Line) are also visited.
00:00 Intro
00:09 B/D Lines
02:22 A/E Lines at Metro Center
03:45 Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill Station
05:31 Historic Broadway Station
06:56 Little Tokyo/Arts District Station
08:45 Mariachi Plaza, Pico/Aliso, and 1st St Viaduct
10:26 Little Tokyo/Arts District Station
11:02 A Line at Union Station - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Happy Regional Connector Day! 😊
The announcement chime feels so Disney futurism circa 1990 and I love it!
Reminded me of that star tour ride 😀
@@cmunoz810 YES!!!
Wow looks so clean and fresh. I hope they keep it that way after the recent clean up efforts. Nice to see more security too
This is perfect.
This was shot on the long-awaited opening weekend of the Regional Connector project. Thanks for being so timely with your post.
Would have appreciated seeing more of the portals and concourses as well as seeing the platforms. But there’s only so much we can get from the coming and going of train sets.
Also consistently showing the station name either by a shot or labeling would have helped as it wasn’t clear where we were.
Appreciate your work. It was a historic occasion.
Correct. I would have loved to have shown more, but I was on a fairly tight schedule. All the chapters in the video have the station names listed, aside from the B/D Line segment, which features Union Station, Pershing Square, and Metro Center.
@@HighIronProductions I know the pre and post production can be very involved. I really appreciate that you managed to post it so soon for us to see. Thanks again.
From Union Station. South to Long Beach, West to Santa Monica, East to East LA, and North to Hollywood.
North to Pasadena & Azuza as well.
@@HAL-bo5lr yes and to the west, Wilshire as well ;)
@@joeynumbers33 It’s about damn time Angelenos can go from the city center/downtown to (basically) anywhere within LA.
@@HAL-bo5lr they still need to connect the Harbor Area.
@@joeynumbers33 Uh, the Silver (J) Line?
It should be easier for some downtown workers to get to 7th Street Metro station. I wonder how this is working out?
As a New Yorker who rides the MTA NYC Transit every day. I find it hilarious that now you guys call your trains the A Line, E Line, etc. When it was color lines before. Also, the fact that The A Line is the largest route in the world surpassing the A Train in NYC which went from 205th St to Far Rockaway Mott Ave in Queens. That's freaking Hilarious LA is copying NYC Lol. But it's good to see y'all Metro Transportation growing.
Yeah, they did that because they realized they were going to run out of colors before long. Imagine if New York had to find colors for all 28 lines. In addition to the 8-10 "regular" colors they'd been using colors like "taupe" and "ecru" and "olive". And yes, they straight-up copied NYC.
Longest subway route is Shanghai line 11
@ChariotmanGaming the colors were cool and people actually still use the colors for reference . However you're absolutely right it's really a cheap copy of the New York lines. Saying the A train sounds much smoother than saying the A line and it's easier to remember! Also what's most pathetic to me is for years and years and years LA citizens DID NOT want to be like New York. I'm 67yr old and remember when they didn't want high rises downtown! I remember when they didn't want anything that they called 'the New York-zation' of LA and newspaper editorials after editorials. And now it's literally monkey see monkey doo... lol 😂😂
@@djratcliffThat's not true. LA didn't copy NYC. They just converted to an fairly common industry standard.
BTW, they didn't get rid of the colors. The letters are encircled in the color the line was originally called. So the A line is within a Blue circle because it was originally the Blue line.
They also assigned the letters based on what line was built first. Since the old Blue line was first to open, it was given the A letter and so on.
There was a height limit in DTLA but it was rescinded in 1957. There was also a heliport requirement on skyscrapers until several years ago. LA will get more skyscrapers but nowhere near anything resembling the density of NYC and that's because we have rhe space to add density in our own way with shorter buildings ir taller buildings but much more spread out. Angelenos enjoy rhe outdoors because we have great weather 300 days a year.
Rip l line you'll be missed😢
The typical railroad crossing bell sounds weird in a subway. It must go.
It's not technically a subway. It's a light rail line with some underground stations but most stations are above ground.
The LA metro subway and the LRT share the same gages?! I had no idea or am I tripping
Same track gauge, different loading gauge.
The LRT cars are narrower
About time! What took them so long?
Lack of funds, regulations, poor choice among contractors, and many other issues. Subway construction is generally slow in the US nowadays. Even in NYC, where building one new subway line (Second Avenue) is taking longer than most of the original subway system took to be built in the 1920s-1940s.
The main reason is the funding scheme. The construction is funded through some sales tax increases collected on a regular basis. That means there is only a certain amount of money at any given time so they can't build all the lines approved simultaneously. They have to wait in line until enough money is collected to start a project. There are several other transit projects already approved but they're waiting for funding.
LA Metro will have continuing transit projects under construction for the foreseeable future.
The metro is only the B and D lines, all the others are the tram line
We call them light rail lines. Usually trams are the same thing as streetcars in the USA. These are not that. Angelenos treat the light rail lines the same as subway lines, and it's all referred to as the Metro.
❌platform doors ❌safe
Too slow
maybe you can walk then
@@movieswithmatticus5469 Maybe be first world like you claim then.
@@damienyuen7718 I didn't claim anything, I just said you can walk if you don't like it.
@@damienyuen7718 Lol, it's so funny to see you people jealous that formerly car-dominated US cities are getting good transit systems built. Does that break your narrative.
Also, what you said makes no sense. The speeds of the LA Metro lines are pretty standard for this type of system. For urban rail the speed is more defined by the density of stops than any type of speed metric. In fact, the vast majority of urban metros around the world are slower than the one in LA.
At least try to make some amount of sense next time.
@@TohaBgood2the E line still is slow tho
Make sure to have a knife and sanitiser. You will need both.