The transparency, efficiency, and quality of this project and the Azusa extension speaks for itself. Need to have these guys build of Metro’s light rail projects.
LA Metro was recently awarded state funding for the extension to Montclair, but anything beyond that would have to be administered through a different county, not LA County. Also, many surmise that the line will already be too long when it opens to Pomona, and will have logistical issues in maintaining good reliable frequencies.
@Volkswagen-of-Deutschland Anything beyond LA County boundaries will need to go through a different County. Local transit lines are funded within County transit agencies. Metrolink is the exception because it's funded by each of the 5 counties it serves. That arrangement doesn't currently exist for local transit lines. It would be up to SBC or OC transit agencies to make that happen.
It's wonderful to see all the progress. Conceivably, we could see two LA Metro projects open around the same time early next year. This one, and the 1st section of the D line to La Cienega. Extending the the LA Metro in opposite directions. LA Metro could be the the 2nd largest in the USA by 2028. Second only to NYC.
Nice! Wires, power stations, tracks & bridges are done! Looks like platforms weeks away from completion, Pomona's by end of next month, and a couple months for parking lots! Come on Glendora's restaurants, grocery stores & post office, San Dimas Dollar Tree & eateries, maybe Pomona's Dollar Tree, and most importantly, LA VERNE STATION & LA COUNTY FAIR MAY 2025!!!!!!!!! 🍔🌭🛤🚉🚊🎇 And currently estimated October 2025 D Line Extension 1 for El Rey Theater & Saban Theater on new subway trains!!!!
The 1st section of the D line to LA Cienega should open in early 2025. That would include stations at La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega. I drove by the stations a few days ago. The La Brea station is the most completed. It already has the entrance canopy installed. Very existing. Ironically, I've never been the the automotive Petersen Museum so I plan to take the LA Metro to visit a car museum. The subway station is right next door to the museum. 😂 And, of course, across the street from Academy Museum, LACMA, and La Brea targets. I'm assuming we'll see the new train cars when this extension opens, too. I can't wait.
With regard to these parking lots, I do wonder if they considered building two or three stories worth of parking in a smaller overall footprint? Otherwise, the project looks great, and it’s completion couldn’t come soon enough!
I have heard that the surface lots were done instead of garages as they could more easily be demolished for future development. So if laws change and Metro isn't required to have as much parking or any for that matter, they could in theory tear out the concrete and build apartments or TODs, etc. But it certainly would be better to have done a garage with a smaller footprint, at least in the current time we live in.
@@jarrodxc70You are correct. It was about buying the land for future development. Building a parking lot is much cheaper than a small structure. It's really about cost.
I just dont understand why every train station in California needs to have parking as close as possible to the platform. WHY?? ITS SLOWER THAN DRIVING FROM POINT A TO B???
To attract car drivers since many of the stations are located within smaller cities that have limited public transit. Eventually, these LA Metro properties will include TOD, too. In the future they could build a smaller parking structure and the rest would be be a combination of commercial and residential. It's good that they bought the land to begin with though. For example, I started using the LA Metro again after Covid about a year ago. I drive about 10 minutes to a station with a parking structure across the street and spend the rest of my outing using the LA Metro. I longer drive to DTLA, Santa Monica, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Exposition Park, etc. It's been great and very convenient. I could take a bus to and from the station, but it would take about 40 minutes more to and from the station.
I love commenters like you that are proudly ignorant lol, just wanting to be angry. Many LA Metro rail/BRT stations _don't_ have attached parking, that would cost _way_ too much in real estate, and as if these four stations stand for the entire state lol. It's especially useful for these stations because public transit isn't very accessible in the immediate surrounding areas (or used very much by locals), like buses. Statistics prove that, which is often the case for Los Angeles as many have longer commutes that would take over two hours via bus and train one way. These are also in a more sprawling environment compared to most of what Metro reaches (like Santa Monica, for example) which makes it even more difficult for those that might try to walk, or bike to them. It encourages those to start using it instead of driving, which is always helpful for a new rail line-- especially the longest light rail line in the world that are entering areas where (feasible) public transit is a new thing.
@@iloks9177even still a parking lot can only hold so many cars and also make it more difficult for everyone else to reach the station, making it harder for people to get to the train stations and get onto the trains.
Initially, it will be a very good thing to attract car drivers since many of the stations are located within smaller cities that have limited public transit. Eventually, these LA Metro properties will include TOD, too. In the future they could build a smaller parking structure and the rest would be be a combination of commercial and residential. It's good that they bought the land to begin with though. For example, I started using the LA Metro again after Covid about a year ago. I drive about 10 minutes to a station with a parking structure across the street and spend the rest of my outing using the LA Metro. I longer drive to DTLA, Santa Monica, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Exposition Park, etc. It's been great and very convenient. I could take a bus to and from the station, but it would take about 40 minutes more to and from the station.
@@drdewott9154Not really. The parking lots are temporary in the long term, but short term they are there to attract car drivers to more conveniently use the light-rail line. For example, I started using the LA Metro again after Covid about a year ago. I drive about 10 minutes to a station with a parking structure across the street and spend the rest of my outing using the LA Metro. I longer drive to DTLA, Santa Monica, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Exposition Park, etc. It's been great and very convenient. I could take a bus to and from the station, but it would take about 40 minutes more to and from the station.
Some are questing the size of the parking lots and structures. Here in the east where we have good public transportation including bus lines that serve our regional rail lines, most have good sized parking areas. This is especially where new lines are built or old lines extended or rebuilt. In New Jersey the Lindenwold High Speed Line electric heavy rail line has big parking lots at many of its outlying stations. They are usually crowed on weekdays. If people are parking and using transit instead of driving into the city it is still a positive for the environment. Less driving means less fossil fuel emissions that the cars would have created if the people did not park and ride the train. So I hope the same thing happens on this new extension of this rail line. It can serve driving as well as non driving passengers.
To those of you screaming "TOD over parking", metro isn't JR with an imense amount of money to develope it's own TOD. Hence why they built a basic parking lot so PRIVATE developers can come in and build on the land metro owns. Get enough of that going, and metro may be able to build their own TOD.
Initially, it will be a very good thing to attract car drivers since many of the stations are located within smaller cities that have limited public transit. Eventually, these LA Metro properties will include TOD, too. In the future they could build a smaller parking structure and the rest would be be a combination of commercial and residential. It's good that they bought the land to begin with though. For example, I started using the LA Metro again after Covid about a year ago. I drive about 10 minutes to a station with a parking structure across the street and spend the rest of my outing using the LA Metro. I longer drive to DTLA, Santa Monica, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Exposition Park, etc. It's been great and very convenient. I could take a bus to and from the station, but it would take about 40 minutes more to and from the station.
The transparency, efficiency, and quality of this project and the Azusa extension speaks for itself. Need to have these guys build of Metro’s light rail projects.
Agreed. Been subbed to them since the azusa extension, and they're amazing!! Definitely need to hire these guys in the future!!!
Poor crews had to work through a heat wave. Hope they plant some trees soon.
NOT HOW TREES by rail WORKs :Cause safty laws, But yes Shade need Shade lots of shade and fans
ooo maybe some Misting pipes
Let’s get you the funding to Montclair, and eventually to Ontario Airport!!!
How about a Split at Upland for trains to go to Ontario Airport and/or Brightline Rancho Cucamonga.
LA Metro was recently awarded state funding for the extension to Montclair, but anything beyond that would have to be administered through a different county, not LA County.
Also, many surmise that the line will already be too long when it opens to Pomona, and will have logistical issues in maintaining good reliable frequencies.
@Volkswagen-of-Deutschland Anything beyond LA County boundaries will need to go through a different County. Local transit lines are funded within County transit agencies. Metrolink is the exception because it's funded by each of the 5 counties it serves. That arrangement doesn't currently exist for local transit lines. It would be up to SBC or OC transit agencies to make that happen.
Can hardly wait for this phase of the expansion's completion.
It's wonderful to see all the progress. Conceivably, we could see two LA Metro projects open around the same time early next year. This one, and the 1st section of the D line to La Cienega. Extending the the LA Metro in opposite directions. LA Metro could be the the 2nd largest in the USA by 2028. Second only to NYC.
Nice! Wires, power stations, tracks & bridges are done! Looks like platforms weeks away from completion, Pomona's by end of next month, and a couple months for parking lots! Come on Glendora's restaurants, grocery stores & post office, San Dimas Dollar Tree & eateries, maybe Pomona's Dollar Tree, and most importantly, LA VERNE STATION & LA COUNTY FAIR MAY 2025!!!!!!!!! 🍔🌭🛤🚉🚊🎇 And currently estimated October 2025 D Line Extension 1 for El Rey Theater & Saban Theater on new subway trains!!!!
The 1st section of the D line to LA Cienega should open in early 2025. That would include stations at La Brea, Fairfax and La Cienega. I drove by the stations a few days ago. The La Brea station is the most completed. It already has the entrance canopy installed. Very existing.
Ironically, I've never been the the automotive Petersen Museum so I plan to take the LA Metro to visit a car museum. The subway station is right next door to the museum. 😂
And, of course, across the street from Academy Museum, LACMA, and La Brea targets. I'm assuming we'll see the new train cars when this extension opens, too. I can't wait.
Thats awsome
With regard to these parking lots, I do wonder if they considered building two or three stories worth of parking in a smaller overall footprint? Otherwise, the project looks great, and it’s completion couldn’t come soon enough!
I have heard that the surface lots were done instead of garages as they could more easily be demolished for future development. So if laws change and Metro isn't required to have as much parking or any for that matter, they could in theory tear out the concrete and build apartments or TODs, etc. But it certainly would be better to have done a garage with a smaller footprint, at least in the current time we live in.
@@jarrodxc70You are correct. It was about buying the land for future development. Building a parking lot is much cheaper than a small structure. It's really about cost.
4:56 nooooo the board fell down
I just dont understand why every train station in California needs to have parking as close as possible to the platform. WHY?? ITS SLOWER THAN DRIVING FROM POINT A TO B???
To attract car drivers since many of the stations are located within smaller cities that have limited public transit. Eventually, these LA Metro properties will include TOD, too. In the future they could build a smaller parking structure and the rest would be be a combination of commercial and residential. It's good that they bought the land to begin with though.
For example, I started using the LA Metro again after Covid about a year ago. I drive about 10 minutes to a station with a parking structure across the street and spend the rest of my outing using the LA Metro. I longer drive to DTLA, Santa Monica, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Exposition Park, etc. It's been great and very convenient. I could take a bus to and from the station, but it would take about 40 minutes more to and from the station.
I love commenters like you that are proudly ignorant lol, just wanting to be angry. Many LA Metro rail/BRT stations _don't_ have attached parking, that would cost _way_ too much in real estate, and as if these four stations stand for the entire state lol. It's especially useful for these stations because public transit isn't very accessible in the immediate surrounding areas (or used very much by locals), like buses. Statistics prove that, which is often the case for Los Angeles as many have longer commutes that would take over two hours via bus and train one way. These are also in a more sprawling environment compared to most of what Metro reaches (like Santa Monica, for example) which makes it even more difficult for those that might try to walk, or bike to them. It encourages those to start using it instead of driving, which is always helpful for a new rail line-- especially the longest light rail line in the world that are entering areas where (feasible) public transit is a new thing.
How far is the Pomona station from the L.A. County fairgrounds?
It’s not Pomona Station.
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Getting there
Train Testing on southeast gateway line, When?
2045. :]
@@Volkswagen-of-Deutschland 💀 💀 💀
@@CancelRUclips026 lol. Edit: It’s 2035. If it’s 2035, when do they start Building?
@@Volkswagen-of-Deutschland 2025
@@CancelRUclips026 Makes Sense.
Where is the August update video?
TOD > Parking.... Why would i take the train to a parking lot... smh
To save money on gas and ware and tear on cars that are older
@@iloks9177even still a parking lot can only hold so many cars and also make it more difficult for everyone else to reach the station, making it harder for people to get to the train stations and get onto the trains.
Initially, it will be a very good thing to attract car drivers since many of the stations are located within smaller cities that have limited public transit. Eventually, these LA Metro properties will include TOD, too. In the future they could build a smaller parking structure and the rest would be be a combination of commercial and residential. It's good that they bought the land to begin with though.
For example, I started using the LA Metro again after Covid about a year ago. I drive about 10 minutes to a station with a parking structure across the street and spend the rest of my outing using the LA Metro. I longer drive to DTLA, Santa Monica, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Exposition Park, etc. It's been great and very convenient. I could take a bus to and from the station, but it would take about 40 minutes more to and from the station.
@@drdewott9154Not really. The parking lots are temporary in the long term, but short term they are there to attract car drivers to more conveniently use the light-rail line.
For example, I started using the LA Metro again after Covid about a year ago. I drive about 10 minutes to a station with a parking structure across the street and spend the rest of my outing using the LA Metro. I longer drive to DTLA, Santa Monica, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Exposition Park, etc. It's been great and very convenient. I could take a bus to and from the station, but it would take about 40 minutes more to and from the station.
Some are questing the size of the parking lots and structures. Here in the east where we have good public transportation including bus lines that serve our regional rail lines, most have good sized parking areas. This is especially where new lines are built or old lines extended or rebuilt. In New Jersey the Lindenwold High Speed Line electric heavy rail line has big parking lots at many of its outlying stations. They are usually crowed on weekdays. If people are parking and using transit instead of driving into the city it is still a positive for the environment. Less driving means less fossil fuel emissions that the cars would have created if the people did not park and ride the train. So I hope the same thing happens on this new extension of this rail line. It can serve driving as well as non driving passengers.
To those of you screaming "TOD over parking", metro isn't JR with an imense amount of money to develope it's own TOD. Hence why they built a basic parking lot so PRIVATE developers can come in and build on the land metro owns. Get enough of that going, and metro may be able to build their own TOD.
Why so much parking?! Could have been housing!
Initially, it will be a very good thing to attract car drivers since many of the stations are located within smaller cities that have limited public transit. Eventually, these LA Metro properties will include TOD, too. In the future they could build a smaller parking structure and the rest would be be a combination of commercial and residential. It's good that they bought the land to begin with though.
For example, I started using the LA Metro again after Covid about a year ago. I drive about 10 minutes to a station with a parking structure across the street and spend the rest of my outing using the LA Metro. I longer drive to DTLA, Santa Monica, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Exposition Park, etc. It's been great and very convenient. I could take a bus to and from the station, but it would take about 40 minutes more to and from the station.
This metro line is going to bring more problems especially with the homeless people is non win situation all the time