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The L Line and Gold Line [2] are former designations for a section of the current Los Angeles Metro Rail system. These names referred to a single light rail line of 31 miles (50 km) [1] providing service between Azusa and East Los Angeles via the northeastern corner of Downtown Los Angeles, serving several attractions, including Little Tokyo, Union Station, the Southwest Museum, Chinatown, and ...
The Foothill Extension (formerly the Gold Line Foothill Extension) is a construction project extending the light rail A Line, a part of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The project begins at the former terminus of the former Gold Line at Sierra Madre Villa station in Pasadena and continues east through the "Foothill Cities" of Los Angeles County.
The first operating segment of Los Angeles Metro Rail opened on July 14, 1990, then known as the Blue Line. In the early 20th century, Southern California had an extensive privately owned rail transit network with over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of track, operated by Pacific Electric (Red Cars) and Los Angeles Railway (Yellow Cars). [ 23 ]
The Gold Line was later extended to Atlantic station in East Los Angeles on November 15, 2009. [14] The light rail Expo Line opened between 7th Street/Metro Center and La Cienega/ Jefferson on April 28, 2012; two additional stations opened on June 20, 2012. [ 15 ]
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has studied two alternative alignments for this extension. In 2015, Metro estimated the cost of both alignments of what was then known as the Gold Line Eastside Rail Extension at $6.0 billion (to be delivered in 2057). [4]
The Gold Line uses the old right of way of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad, which built the first train tracks and 1887 station in Azusa. The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was founded in 1883, by James F. Crank with the goal of bringing a rail line to San Gabriel Valley from downtown Los Angeles.
The first floor of the parking garage has a multi-bay bus plaza, and the fourth floor has the train platform access, with faregates, ticket vending machines, and a pedestrian bridge, which passes over the westbound lanes of the Foothill Freeway. Sierra Madre Villa was the Gold Line's northern terminus from 2003 until 2016.
L Line (Los Angeles Metro), known as the Gold Line from its inception in 2003 until 2020, a former light rail line in Los Angeles County, California, later merged into the A Line in 2023. Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line, color-coded "gold", a rapid transit line in Tokyo, Japan; Line 13 (Guangzhou Metro), color-coded "gold", a rapid transit line in ...