New Metro line will allow riders to go across LA County in one train
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2023
- Imagine being able to travel from one side of Southern California to the other on Metro trains without ever having to leave your seat. When Metro's Regional Connector opens June 16, riders will be able to travel from Azusa to Long Beach, East LA to Santa Monica all on one train.
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Very exciting to see this new addition to the Metro system in LA. Another important step in expanding the system to make it world class. The opening of the LAX APM next year will be another step forward. And then the additional sections of the Purple line the following years after that.
Way behind... In my estimation. The World Cup. Should have had the LAX APM, The People Mover to the stadiums in Inglewood completed. Without mentioning the K Line's last two stations already working to the airport and connections to the green line.
The greater LA basin should have had most lightrail completed too. The majority of the Southbay should have been completed. Especially if it follows the old Santa Fe Line.
@@troysierra5228 We would all like to have projects done faster even Metro, but the main reason projects are built at certain times is due to the available funding. It's not like the money is sitting in a bank account. The projects are on a schedule and funded based on how much tax revenue is collected and that can vary a lot from year to year. LA gets some federal funding but it's a relatively low amount. If LA would get more funding sooner some of these projects could get done faster. Money doesn't grow on trees.
The World Cup in LA is not until 2026 so the LAX APM will be operational by then and fully connected to they K Line which should also have all it's stations fully open by then too.
@@theexmann Agreed. I was 12 when the Blue Line first started service. RTD was still running the buses, there were no Rapid services, a few Limited stop services (mostly on Wilshire and along Sunset) and the bulk of cross county travel was with the 400 series express services.
Metro has done a great job with the funding it's had by overhauling the bus system to complement the growing rail. Let's not also forget MetroLink which could be poised to be LA's "S-bahn" if they can get the funding to double track more and eventually electrify. Also other partner systems like Long beach Transit, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, Foothill Transit, and even OCTA and SB Omnitrans are doing a lot more to link systems than you'll ever find in many other US metros.
@@starrwulfe Indeed. You make some excellent points. I'll be using riding Metro on the 16th to checkout the Regional Connector. And then take the Expo line all the way to Santa Monica to have a bite to eat at the beach. Love it!
If there is stench and violence it already IS "world-class". No need to wait until mid-June.
The fact that public transport in the US is seen as something for crminals/homeless is crazy. Nowhere else in the world you would read these comments.
Yeah, comments like these are par for the course for any public transportation system in the US. Honestly, it's all noise at this point.
Only cities where the radical left govern.
the US is really screwed up its quite sad TBH
Whatever - says everyone else in America
@@davidtran2026 Not everyone. It's nice to see some cities trying. Believe me, it is nice to have, regardless of what issues are causing trouble right now. Stuff the exceptionalism for a bit.
The Regional Connector is basically the "missing link" for the Blue Line (A Line) and the Gold Line (L Line) to Pasadena and the Foothills, originally envisioned as the "Pasadena Blue Line" since the late 1990's. It couldn't get built at that time due to future subway tunnel constructions banned at that time and redundancy with the Red (B) and Purple (D) Line subway connections to LA Union Station from 7th/Metro Center. The RC opening will finally achieve LA Metro's vision of the "Pasadena Blue Line" with the A Line now taking over the L Line branch to Azusa.
@Obino Rejedo That's a whole different project under construction by LA Metro. Yes, this other project can achieve another one of LA Metro's longtime visions of the Green Line (C Line) directly to LAX Airport, with possible future extensions to Marina Del Rey and Santa Monica.
Outrageous taxpayers’ and wasteful spending!
I bet they have some real underqualified CPAs and low-class chartered accountants, maybe some accounting technician from unaccredited night school auditing their spending. There are already two Metro Rail lines the red and purple lines that transport people in such a short distance. Not to mention the costs of relocating Little Tokyo’s Station. And the countless Metro Bus and Bike Share that travel through the radius. People can also walk. Also don’t forget DASH, other municipal bus lines that goes through the area (like too many already). Don’t forget Uber and Lyft. I don’t know if escotters are legal there such as Bird and etc but I did see some.
Generally speaking, people who are too lazy to transfers probably have much more discretionary spending and know to boycott the less security public system and just pay more for privacy and etc.
F- in spending. Solid A in slang British English. Maybe a plain text editor where there are no universal scientific figures such as schemas, graphs, and modern educational interactive videos!
@@mechanicaltypewriteroperat9885 Well, maybe they *_don't_* want to do that anymore. Any maybe the commuters *_don't_* want to spend too much time on the already-congested freeways. Maybe Southern California have learned some valuable lessons about the mistakes made in the 1950s-1960s, about smog, air pollution, the unreliable RTD bus service. Give the L.A. Metro a chance, won't ya?
THANK you. Clueless informationless news reporters and their stories
I’m waiting for the lax train to be completed that’s what I’m waiting for !!😊
Let me know so I can book a trip to LA then.
@@jimmyjohn8008 I don’t think it goes all the way to lax until 2024
@@jimmyjohn8008 Already a connection to LAX in place but the new one will all more direct travel from the Airport up north without having to go via downtown.
@@paxundpeace9970 A direct connection is what we need like how SFO has one.
Why
I’ve taken the train consistently in 2022 and 2023. Yes, it could certainly be safer, but you can tell Metro is trying to put resources into improving the situation. There are liaisons and cops at a number of stations these days. Hopefully all the debbie downers in this comments section don’t discourage Metro employees from continuing to improve the system.
As a debbie downer let me add then it's excuse makers who enable the public transportation systems' freefall and making the riding experience a gross violation of decent people's human rights. I used to work in downtown LA and downtown SF and daily used the metrorail/metro/BART all the time. I just had a train/metrorail experience last week. I can definitely say compared with 5-10 years ago both systems are now disgusting at best and horror shows at worst. Luckily I don't have to do this anymore but what about all the riders who have to rely on the system their tax dollars paid for? What? If you ride the system and it's merely dirty and foul smelling but you didn't personally get attacked counts as a "not bad" experience?
@@richardlo4867 ok boomer
Compton native here, I’ve taken the green line and blue line and red line throughout my time commuting to college. I’ve never had an issue, tbh it was sometimes me that was the problematic rider since I wouldn’t pay the fare sometimes and would be frightened by the cops checking tickets
Lol😂
It’s 50/50 with the Metro Lines. It may be a peaceful ride or it may be a foul ride. Usually, my rides were peaceful.
0:15 The new station is surrounded by highways? Why is he standing in a no-man's land with nothing in sight? This is why transit ridership is so low. Appalling land use. Building highways around stations instead of streets and communities. This station has been planned for years now and there is still a highway next to it? Insane. There should already be lively transit oriented development there.
@Not an internet troll I call it as I see it. The only building in his vicinity is a one story brick building with no door to the street. The only other things I see are a 5 lane road intersecting what appears to be a highway given the speed of cars. That's not a lively area. If nobody is walking around the area now, what good does a metro station do here?
To be clear, I think the station is a good thing. A great thing. But the use of the area around the station is abysmal. This should be pedestrian-oriented, but it's the opposite of that.
@Not an internet troll Alright I'll concede in a couple ways because you're right. There ARE a lot of housing and businesses around there. And the brick building is the Japanese American National Museum.
There are still some points I made that hold true though. Both 1st Street and Alameda St are designed like highways. Even though there are lots of pedestrians, this area is not designed to prioritize pedestrians, it's still designed to prioritize cars.
So I was wrong about there not being enough development there. But I was right that they should have changed the design to be less car oriented before this station will open.
A simple map would have been good addition to this report!
This will connect A Line and L Line, within Downtown.
@@paxundpeace9970 What are the A and Line line? You mean the Gold Line to the Blue Line, right?
Or do you mean the Red Line to the Expo line?
@@limeyprat the gave the lines letter names to replace the color names, since they're running out of colors now
A = blue
B = red
E = expo
L = gold and so on
And here I thought you could simply Google it but I guess some can use RUclips without a hitch and since they are owned by Google I guess that’s all that matters.
@@PlaystationMasterPS3 Yeah, that was idiotic of Metro.
I’m so excited that this is finally opening after three years of originally planning to open. But first let Metro do something with improving people safety by not spitting out nonsensical excuses.
If people use the train more it will improve safety a bit but you have a point in the fact metro needs to fix their safety issues
@@turtle233 Yup. We let innocent, everyday riders going to shopping, work or school be the guinea pigs for crime before we can judge if we actually need any policing on these lines.
Never going to happen with this da
Lmfao, just yesterday we had a local politician say she doesnt see how people can use Metro because its so dangerous. What a joke.
Finally, I’ve been waiting since last July-October.
So now instead of the Blue Line and Expo Line at one end of downtown L.A., and the Gold Line at the other, you guys now have the 🔵 A Train and the 🟡 E Train. Congratulations L.A. County M.T.A.!
stop letting bums SLEEP on the trains from the time they open til the time they close!
'the more people we have in the system, the safer it's going to be'... so the ridership is providing the security
It's like some kind of religious chant being mouthed over and over again. All these other metro systems in the world that are safe even during the wee hours with sparse ridership - it's like magic.
The state that ridership provides security based on what ? Most people don’t get involved for their own personal safety and will instead pull out a camera and start recording
I’ve taken the A line blue from Long Beach to Arcadia with this new connector and it’s a smooth ride. I avoid transferring at 7th and metro 🚇 to the Red or Purple line to Union Station 🚉 it’s now just one shot 👍 awesome project
We need a load of K9s
Drug and bomb sniffing dog's for the trains are a must
did that lady really say they will have longest rail line in the country? I mean TONS of other lines will disagree, and be rigth.
She meant to say the longest light rail line i think
Yes it's longest line of the light Rail format. In the world. 50 miles.
No platform screen doors?
Not really a thing in the US.
Here before it opens to warn those taking it - watch out for pickpockets, random assaults, and the smell of homeless making camp. Oh and possible free candy that will make you loopy.
If this metro guy's definition of creating safety is having a lot of people riding the train he is totally wrong. Maybe its true for other cities but he fails to mention that LA has a open sewer of a mental institution on its public transit system.
Man up, crybaby.
Priorities are wrong here. First, Metro must provide safety so people feel safe and will likely get an influx in ridership.
As someone who’s been riding the system non-stop for the last 2 years, they’ve definitely been preparing for June 16th, things have radically improved.
As someone who's been riding the metro for 10 years things have never been worse on the Red and Purple lines. The recent increase in police patrol at Union Station is a welcome sight and a great start, but much more of a police presence throughout the system is desperately needed. Fund them by dissolving the absolutely USELESS ambassadors, outreach, and do-nothing security if need be.
@@SergioRedz the crazy thing is, metro has given over $1 billion in extra funding to police since 2018. An audit also recently found that under the contracts police have been unwilling to do their jobs, and I see this every day. They’re either sitting in their patrol vehicles in the station parking lots or they stand around on their phones, then walk away when someone starts acting out. The metro board has also repeatedly asked police why they haven’t been doing their jobs, the police answered “we are unsure how to effectively deploy our resources.” How on earth are they unsure to effectively deploy their resources on the metro rail network?? They’ve had the contract since 1990 when LASD unions persuaded the board to dissolve the transit police force. Why should we keep throwing money towards the police when they can’t “effectively deploy their resources” with the largest budgets in the country.
Let's see this reporter ride this again in three months.
@@stargater2892 the K line has been open for 6 months and is the cleanest and safest line in the entire network still, especially with the way they keep it staffed.
Looking forward to this ambitious project woooo!!!!
what about security?
that's racist.
Safety for all traveler's commuting buses and train's is a must. Unruly passengers must be escorted off any form of mass transit.
@@jamess.chandler7868 barred from public transportation period
They've beefed up security hugely in the past six months. I've seen cops in groups of SIX.
These is a very good news, make me so happy, we need more Metro 🚇 and less cars in California.
More buses to. 🚌
We need a new Metro Line 🚇 from Moreno Valley to Downtown L.A. 🚇
Go enjoy your seat with strangers and who know what they may do to you.
This basically already exists: It's called Metrolink. The 91/Perris Valley Line has a stop in Moreno Valley and ends at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles.
@@Geotpf for real
@@rollinia7770 I was living in New York City, for 29 years. That is no a problem for me. I ride the metro all the time, day and night with people from all around the world. 😄😘💛
@Not an internet trollI still in Cali driving as slow as I can in the freeway since I couldn't afford a better car than a lemon.
New York metro need new lines at outskirts an suburbs. Renovation also need some station an existing lines.
I love you abc7 news ❤
Homeless will be peeing and pooping all over it by the end of june
More glass dirty bloody needles back to the sands.
More like the day of.
Unless Mayor Bass does something about it, and ASAP. Create a Metro Police Department, because the LAPD and the County Sheriff’s Department simply don’t have the manpower.
@@tyrese3745 Metro had it's own police transit force many years ago and they ended it for various reasons including cost. However, they are discussing the possibility of bringing some version of it back now.
@@theexmann Well, *that* was a BIG mistake.
man, the homeless people are going to love it!!!
Yeah, free transport all over LA
Can sleep longer on the bus all thanks to government free bus pass.
@@rollinia7770 Don’t forget that it can also be used as a free toilet
@@rollinia7770 how can i get a free bus pass?
@@chromebomb Failed the Access Test for temporary to long term bus pass. Another place are Hospital, GROW, DPSS and Worksource or so.
More homeless and more druggies
But in the meantime before the daily active user numbers are high enough (more people = more safe), can we have more security personnel patrolling the system?
No. They need to use innocent riders as guinea pigs so they can tally how much of the party budget they can spare for security.
Have you been on in the last six months? I've seen cops patrolling in groups of SIX. This is new.
Oh, the sheriff deputies are there, in force, on occasion. It's the _on occasion_ that's the issue.
I'm glad to see the RTC is finally here. LRT already helped Little Tokyo -- I hope the RTC brings lower Broadway back. Broadway is the historic entertainment district of L.A., not Hollywood.
Just make a magnet train already USA!!
Looks great
We need armed guards in the stations
1:44 he obviously has never been on his own metro .
I swear that guy is delusional. He keeps saying safety but doesn't even explain simply how. Safety in numbers? That's a joke
i love the rail system in many other countries like Singapore, they have the cleanest and the safest to commute in the world... if only LA would clean up crime and safety at all times, then public transportation would have been a nice family trip case of transport option. TBH at this moment, I wouldnt bring my family with me to ride a train especially on Red Line and many other lines in LA.
so glad it finally opened... it only took 20 years...
you would think there would be a map for those who don't know what the metro system and this corridor espiecilly what it looks like
I’m glad this is finally opening but the safety for the rider has to be the number concern. People won’t go unless it’s safer than driving which hasn’t been the case. I would much rather have gates at least push to the entrance with 6feet or higher gates and security around the station rather than the tap system most people break. The more safety is invested, the more likely people will want and demand more metro lines to be built around the city
No, you just need more people riding it.
You're statistically safer on the Metro than driving. Driving is more dangerous, you just have a perception of safety because you're in control. That is, until another car decides to do something stupid.
@@dillonturnquist2753 No. I've been riding the Metro for years. Many simply don't pay.
@@AleHndz source: It was revealed to me in a dream
@@topkek7587 2022 violent crimes on Metro trains and buses: 1,470
2022 Severe injures or fatalities on LA roads: 4,477
You can easily find this on Google if you take the time to research.
I am visiting Los Angeles in mid July and can’t wait to ride ! Any suggestions on what to do for fun would be appreciated!!
The following tourist areas can been reached by train: downtown Hollywood, Old Town Pasadena, downtown Long Beach, downtown LA. For dining: Koreatown, Chinatown, Thai Town, Little Tokyo, all reachable by train.q. Coming next year: LAX, Museum Row, Beverly Hills.
@@themoviedealers thank you so much! Gonna plan out a day in Koreatown and Downtown LA
I've been commuting on the Metro for years. Frankly, I'm conflicted about its viability going forward.
Sure, ride the Metro when you're here. A few pointers:
1. Don't look like a tourist. Don't behave like a tourist.
2. Be aware of your surroundings. Pay attention.
3. Watch where you step.
4. Watch where you sit. The seats are fabric covered, which is among one of the most stupid ideas ever.
Dont come verry dangerous
@@RobertLeeAtYT i had a great time in LA. To be honest, it was shocking to see the amount of homeless with my own eyes…. Separately, the new stations looked beautiful, and the E and A line worked really well. that was fun to try! Its beautiful and there are so many options for food, bars etc … but yeah the homelessness problem is shocking.
Metro will never be safe until you remove the homeless. This is a joke. People who don’t live in LA and don’t ride the metro have no idea of how dangerous it is. You should interview the riders, not the construction workers.
Looking forward to this. I feel for the homeless and wish this state would cater to them more than doing something like building new rail trains, but after seeing a kid get physically attacked by a homeless person one time at the expo, I don't ride them much these days. Please enforce safety!
Cater to them? California is very generous to these addicts that’s why they keep coming from different states and it doesn’t get any better cause it’s all like a free giveaway courtesy of f tax payers
You should look into and spread the word about the scandalous lack of action the LAPD and LACSD have been giving to your MTA. One cop actually told the MTA that "We don't work for some ****ing bus company " Time to replace the police with a private security force, they'll do a better job!
Access to transportation is the single biggest factor in determining an individual's economic mobility, so new rail lines can indirectly prevent people on the brink from becoming homeless, or get them out of the streets. It's not necessarily an either/or situation!
Eso no pasara por que su economia se basa en las falencias de las personas
Rail is a way, to have people get where they have to go to the job, to spend money help the economy.
Trains nostalgic childhood travel
Where's the station inside LAX?! That needs to happen ASAP. I can't believe we don't already have it!
Why are the trains so small???
Who want to ride that? It’s not safe.
Improve commute and chances of a violent crime against you.
Right! The longer you're on the train increases your chance of violence
@@stardel literally, I’ve been shot killed and injected with fentanyl every single time I ride the trains and for some odd reason get revived the next day to live it all over again. It’s rough out there man….
@@pinhead35 you prove my point to be true RIP
Safety #1
Make sure its safe first.... it be more for the homeless
3Metro train station is open now
Bravo 👏 👏 👏
As someone else shared, "You should interview the riders, not the construction workers." Exactly! Right now, it feels like "safety third".
"You don't have to worry about missing a transfer or where to get the next train" you just have to worry about getting stabbed to death by disturbed homeless people.
100%
Now do the Orange Line!
Safe and Metro in the same sentence is a big laugh.
Safety in numbers is just another way of saying you have created a concentration of potential victims', in other words, a "target rich environment".
Too many crazies on LA transit, and not enough cops...
Tram lines should never be longer than 20km and this is making them longer than 50km. It's something much better suited towards heavy rail with limited stops, like Metro Link if it was electrified and had 15 minute headways on a grade separated right of way. Hopefully some day there's some kind of express spine going from east to west, but the pragmatist in me sees that light rail really isn't the right mode for a distance crossing all of LA County.
Apparently you don't realize that the LRT lines in Los Angeles are largely separated from street traffic, including traffic signals. This isn't an old-fashioned streetcar.
@Not an internet troll There are no "express" light rail lines anywhere in North America and maybe even the world. Chicago and New York have the only express services, and then on their heavy rail lines.
Because LRT stations tend to be about one mile apart outside of downtown cores, LRT trains tend to average about 30 miles an hour. That fact alone tends to make LRT an "express" service compared to local buses. The very cost of building LRT stations, even when at-grade, tends to discourage excessively close station spacing. Compare station spacing on the Los Angeles Metro system compared to the surface parts of the B and C lines on the MBTA Green Line in Boston, which average about 8 MPH.
Pacific Electric had four track lines to Watts and also to a point south of Pasadena. However, they largely existed to accommodate freight trains. The express trains shared the freight tracks and local trains used the slower tracks.
@Not an internet troll - Even with stops spread miles apart, it would make little difference as long as the top speed is 55 MPH with speeds around 35 MPH on street sections, and also the Highland Park section along the Gold Line. Based on experience with the Honolulu automated metro, station spacings of about two miles would yield an average speed of 40 MPH, given a top speed of 50 MPH. To get much faster than that, the train would have to hit Amtrak speeds like 70 MPH and up. BART is one of the few urban rail systems that runs that fast. Such an urban rail system would be very expensive, and it would only yield time savings of a few minutes per passenger.
I refer you to the CalTrain schedule, where you can see that even a "Baby Bullet" making only 6 stops from SJ to SF (48 miles) still takes 1h 5m, compared to 1h 40m for an train stopping 20 times, and the Baby Bullet cruises at 79 MPH, not 55 MPH. The upcoming upgrade to 110 MPH will probably knock down Baby Bullet times to less than an hour.
That said, Metro has proposed triple-tracking the A line from Washington to Willow, a distance that currently takes 30 minutes to go about 16 miles. Increasing the average speed to 40 MPH would only cut 6 minutes from the time required to go between Los Angeles and Long Beach. Increasing the average speed to 50 MPH would only cut 11 minutes, and probably eliminate the stop at Willowbook for the C line connection.
@@pacificostudios Someone's never heard of the Bayonne Flyer.
Someone should've told the Belgians.
Yep with new homeless coming along too.
Along with migrants
Too sparse, too decentralized. Most USA cities are incompatible with public transit because of awful zoning laws. LA can build as much Metro as it wants, it has no ridership and the reason isn’t a lack of rail.
It has the third biggest metro rail system in North America and the fifth biggest ridership.
@@NotAnInternetTroll 16 times as dense, dismissed
Now you can be in a urine Infested train without having to switch to another disgusting train
100%
Hopefully the end of the line is in the middle of the desert so the homeless can get off there and then stay there 😂😂😂😂
Taking the metro is like fight club
Like many metro lines along with light rail, once a proper line is in place, we can build on it and get people everywhere without cars.
The metro blue line is get bigger
It's all for not, now, homeless will occupy, thieves will mug you, the usual ridership challenges!
Easy spread of COVID-19 and the horrendous smell of weeds and filthy musty smell on the bus.
Don't forget free present from a homeless guy taking a dump earlier or even free fentanyl candy!
@@davidtran2026 Free touchy and filthy hands and wide spread legs even when there spaces but they enjoy innocent child minded even lurk with money, candy and toy.
Why does it take LA decades to extend a line while New York had all of its by 1950? 😅
Politics, plus lousy decisions made since the 1960's.
@@roachtoasties should have kept the electric cars :)
It takes NYC decades to extend a line too. Look at the east side extension they just completed
Oil companies removed all the trains back in the 1950 and 60s.
NYC didnt build any subways for like 75 years
They need to install those turnstiles with full doors that wont open unless you pay. That would help stop crime.
Nah, more camera as crime doesn't care if it free or prestige place.
Need one from LA to OC
metrolink oc line
I wish Paul "the more people riding and commuting on the system, the safer it's going to be" Krekorian would commit to utilizing the system as his personal commute to the L.A. City Council office. The system is in shambles. For reasons well documented, there are numerous individuals who have taken to intimidating (or worse) other passengers through their actions. I took the Red Line last year, and it was dreadful. The stations need at least two staff on duty for a small station, more for larger stations. Someone should supervise each platform and gate during all hours of operation. Trains need at least one roving staff member in addition to the driver and conductor. Visible staff and security personnel and police ready to respond in a timely fashion to legitimate safety issues need to be present. Paul's wishful thinking attitude won't solve the problem. We know there are sensitive issues surrounding these issues, but allowing the public transit system to become worthless to any commuter with care for their safety as a sacrifice to that is poor monetary policy in addition to bad transportation policy. We really deserve a return on our public transit investment.
Yeah, basically, he said, there is safety in numbers.
Unfortunately, metro already has a bad rap.
Missing from the story is how long the trip takes.
Long beach to dtla is an hour union station to azusa is about 50mins the regional connector should add 10 minutes so a grand total of 2 hours on the longest line in America. When it opens to Pomona longest tram line in the world.
People safety should always be top priority; not climate change. Spending 100s of billions of $ for climate change is a total waste of tax paid $. Why waste taxpayers $ fighting against mother nature. You'll never win because you're spinning your own wheel's and wasting your own time and burning your own energy. The $ better spent on mental health care and housing for the needy to eradicate the problem of homelessness that began with failed policies and law's within our cities counties and state government's
@@pureessenceofgaming1745Is that good or bad? I'm from chicago so I don't know
This probably built better than the interstates, and after the big one, everyone will use it.
Don’t forget the drugged and violent HOMELESS hangout on these trains…..they don’t even pay to get on. It’s absolutely crazy.
That's great.. How about Rider safety first... Metro .... your trains no matter what line it is never feel safe, From all the homeless aboard riding back and forth to the mentally ill and the assaults & murders... Those Ambassadors you hire are useless... Whenever my GF rides your trains she has to carry pepper spray and sit next to the conductor facing the carriage to keep an eye on trouble ... Do Better if you want ridership.. The Metro Board needs to ride their own line... No media, NO announcements you're showing up so your staff cleans it up before you board...RIDE IT LIKE EVERYDAY PEOPLE..
Fentanyl zombies free rides to da beach 😂
wow!!!!
It’s really easy to be excited about Metro…if you’re the official spokeshole.
2 of those "new" stations are not new. Little Tokyo has always been there before service got interrupted, and the Grand Av station is only 1 block away from the Red Line Civic Center station. No one in their right mind would take the Gold Line from Azusa to Long Beach unless they had 3 hours to kill🤣
They had to relocate Little Tokyo station, so technically it's new. I believe the point is that people from those lines don't have to change to B/D line to get to the middle of downtown or for interchange with each other, esp. when considering how long a walk it takes for interchanging in Union Station.
@@NotAnInternetTroll What is 70 minutes? It might take 70 minutes just to get from Azusa to Union Station.
@@NotAnInternetTroll Again, your logic is a little off course but in the end it is irrelevant. They are going to build whatever they want and we do not have any input on whether it is viable or logical.
He said it’ll be safer with more riders than police. What a lie.
Add More police on train
NOO! We should be widening highways, induced demand doesn’t exist and cars dont kill almost as many people as guns per year!
That should be done 100 years ago! 😂
If you can survive the trip!😂
Maybe areas included by the train door exits for choke holding ...
😆🤣😂 you're not right for that one!!
Couldn’t show a map?
This will give the bums more sleep time
The word safer and LA county don't go together 😐
Can we have a METRO LINE right down the 405 🙏?
Should've been done decades ago
Most people are looking to get out of LA County
Yeah. The A line in LA is going to be the largest line now in the country. But before the A Train in NYC was the largest.. It's hilarious how the LA Metro completely copied NYC MTA Transit with the letters.. Lol. Too funny.
Who wants to visit San Gabriel Valley... all that corruption.
The letters are a dumb organizational system. They make sense in NYC where different trains take the same lines, but L.A.'s system is more like London's. London has named lines: Piccadilly, Northern, Victoria. The Expo Line is a perfect example that we could have named lines in L.A. too. Long Beach for A. Wilshire for D. etc.
I don’t understand why safety isn’t first. You shouldn’t blame the city or anyone for your lack of support towards your daily commuters.
100%
Because the Founding Fathers forgot to put personal safety as a human right into the Constitution.
Sad it took so long for L.A to figure out "connect the lines" is the best idea. California just knows how to waste money but, finally something practical.
This was the original plan. It took a while to get the money together.
Now these people would have plenty of time to think about what train they wonna ride on
Multinational corporations have exit interviews and even paying client feedback before it. This is to prevent lost sales and much worse a boycott. Watching this just makes me want to boycott all Los Angeles Metro's services and just shows how bad they are in spending, I wonder what type of auditors to even outside auditors they have. Outright stupid. If anything this is about ego rather than eliminating redundancy.
Train design from the 80s..ö
About time. And I hope the hobos stay away and that there will be more security around.
Nice addition - a few hundred more beds for the homeless, from end of the county to the other. Nice, free place to sleep off that fentanyl come down right?
Frankly, I'm conflicted. I've been riding the Green line end to end, twice a day, five times a week for years now. It's just been on this side of acceptable all these years. Once Metro cuts the line at Aviation to curve north to LAX in a few months, I'm leaving the system. It's just too much.
New home for all the homeless
I love listening to a bozo report from people who have never ridden an ERL train in their life.... So they couldn't be bothered and the thought never crossed their mind to find out THE NAME or designation of the train... And show us it's route map and REPORT THAT... to us.