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 The Blue Line was LA's first "modern" light rail system with Nippon Sharyo cars. It operates on street at its southern terminus in Long Beach, where lead car 122 is seen in August 2002. As can be seen the cars operate in trains and stop at dedicated stations. Having been opened in 1990 low floor access was not vogue at the time, but American transit systems have long valued accessibility and the stations and cars are access friendly. Further north the Blue Line operates on reserved track along the track bed of an old railway line. In Downtown LA the line goes underground and meets the Red Line at 7th Street / Metro Center / Julian Dixon terminus. |
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The Green Line opened in 1995 and is built largely over the central reservation if Interstate 105, the Century Freeway. This picture is taken mid point on the East-West line at the LAX station. Free shuttle buses link to the airport passenger terminals and the station is well served by Metro Bus, Culver City and Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus.
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 Seen in Long Beach in Ocober 2014 is Nissan car 165 passing Long Beach Transit hybrid New Flyer GE40LF 2426. With the cars on the streets in downtown heads down mobile phone users clearly struggle to see these vehicles heading towards them, hence the massive warnings on the sides.
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 Newer Siemens P2000 cars had been introduced on to the Blue Line by 2014, like 230 seen in Long Beach on the same day.
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 The Gold Line reaches across downtown LA as it connects into Union Station as this evening picture shows. The cars used are belived to be AnsaldoBreda P2550.
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 The Metro rail network has at last reached Santa Monica, rather like the Long Beach line, large sections of it are surface transport and its final run into Santa Monica is along Colorado Avenue, terminating one block from the pier at a tight little station. The streetcars are Kinkisharyo P3010 and this is 1060 seen in November 2019 passing the Big Blue Bus depot on Colorado.
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 Some more activity near the end of the SaMo line in July 2023 with Kinkisharyo P3010 1036.
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 Another view of 1036 as the three car unit heads to the terminus.
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 Car 1013 tail ends this trio heading back downtown.
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 Kinkisharyo 1001 reaches its seaside destination
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 An impressive sight as this Metro unit spans the skies near Union Station in Jul 2023.
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