Gold Line keeps creeping east
Construction on the Pico Aliso station, part of the six-mile, $898-million Metro Gold Line Eastside extension, will begin next Thursday. Located on 1st Street between Anderson and Utah streets, it will be one of eight stations connecting Union Station to East Los Angeles via Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials.
Crews will work on the Pico Aliso station at night, between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. Eastbound traffic on 1st Street will be detoured south at Anderson Street to eastbound 3rd Street, then south again at Gless Street to eastbound 4th Street, then finally north at Boyle Avenue to eastbound 1st Street. Westbound traffic will not be affected.
The project, begun in 2004, is scheduled for completion in late 2009 and should ferry passengers between downtown and East Los Angeles in 17 minutes.
— City News Service
Los Angeles: 2nd most populous city in the U.S., currently has a rail system of not quite twice the size of Portland, Oregon - 23rd most populous. I won't even try to compare us to New York or Chicago. So, yes - it's a good thing the Gold Line east extension is (finally!) nearing completion but as has been put more eloquently on this blog before: now let's put that expensive tunneling machine to work 24/7 on a network of rail lines across the county.
Posted by: Gregory | March 21, 2008 at 09:40 PM