![]() ![]() With the introduction of fare caps, Metro is dropping its unlimited daily, weekly and monthly passes. It’s also lowering the base fare for students and eliminating the extra charge to ride the J (Silver) line buses and Express Bus services. Starting July 1, Metro is capping the amount riders have to spend on any given day or over the course of a week. Metro workers watch and wait as drug overdoses unfold - or go rogue to save lives. Trade Technical CollegeĬalifornia One Metro worker revived 21 riders overdosing on opioids. But far more people will see quicker rides along considerably shorter distances because of the new, direct link between the former Gold line’s northern stations and the original Blue line, and the former Gold line’s eastern stations and new connections with the original Expo line. ![]() That’s great for the people who previously had to hop from the Gold to the Red/Purple to the Blue line to make that trip. will take 1 hour and 9 minutes, and traveling from Azusa to Long Beach will take 1 hour and 58 minutes, according to Metro. Going the full distance from Santa Monica to East L.A. The A now stretches nearly 50 miles from Azusa to Long Beach, making it the longest light-rail line in the country, Metro says. Metro has emphasized how the Regional Connector turns the E and A lines into long, seamless tracks. Similarly, if you hopped onto three trains to get from USC to Mariachi Plaza, you’ll take just one: the E (formerly Expo) line, which takes over the part of the L line that headed east from Little Tokyo. So if you’re used to taking three trains to get from Pasadena to Compton, you’ll now ride just one: the newly elongated A (formerly Blue) line, which takes over the part of the L (formerly Gold) line that headed north from Union Station. It will take travelers starting to the north and northeast of downtown directly to points as far south as Long Beach, and travelers as far west as Santa Monica to stations as far east as East L.A. Think of the connector as the glue between five sets of tracks that reach downtown L.A. It also misidentified the line running from Azusa to Long Beach as the E line. The E line does not run through Union Station en route from Santa Monica to East L.A. JAn earlier version of this article reported that no transfer would be required to travel from Culver City to Union Station on the newly extended E line. ![]()
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