After decades of planning and construction, today around high noon, LA Metro opened the long-awaited Regional Connector, a 1.9 mile #lightrail #subway tunnel in downtown Los Angeles connecting the former Blue/Expo terminus at 7th Street/Metro Center with the former Gold Line. The tunnel will provide new and improved connectivity by allowing Metro’s light rail lines to operate through the downtown core, rather than terminate there (as the Blue and Expo lines did previously) or skirt its edge (as the Gold Line did previously). The new services using the Regional Connector are the A Line (running between Azusa and Long Beach) and the E line (running between East LA and Santa Monica), with both lines serving 3 new stations built as part of the project.

The picture is my track map of the downtown portion of the system with the Regional Connector, destined (at some point) for printing on a T-shirt.

Congratulations to LA on accomplishing this important step forward in the expansion of its #rail #transit network.

Herring gull living up to its name.

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