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San Diego Trolley near the international border in San Ysidro, C. 1990. In August 1980, the MTDB established San Diego Trolley, Inc. to operate and maintain the new light rail system. On July 26, 1981, electric trains began operating the South Line (today's Blue Line) between downtown San Diego and San Ysidro.
The first phase of the project cost $86 million, which included the purchase of the SD&AE, 14 light rail vehicles, construction of a single-tracked electrified light rail line along the 14.2-mile (22.9 km) SD&AE Main Line and construction of a 1.7-mile (2.7 km) section of new street running tracks in downtown San Diego. [8]
The initial line in the San Diego Trolley system, the Blue Line first opened between Centre City San Diego and San Ysidro on July 26, 1981, [4] [12] at a cost of $86 million (equivalent to $297 million in 2024), using the existing tracks of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, which the Metropolitan Transit Development Board had purchased from Southern Pacific on August 20, 1979, for $18 ...
The current operating company of the San Diego Trolley system, San Diego Trolley Incorporated (SDTI), was not founded until 1980 [2] when the Metropolitan Transit Development Board (now operating as San Diego's MTS) began to plan a light-rail service along the Main Line of the former San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway (SD&AE Railway), which the MTDB purchased from the Southern Pacific ...
Mid-Coast Extension of the Blue Line (San Diego Trolley) Light rail United States: San Diego: 2.17 [85] [86] 2.41 2016 2021 Green Line Extension: Light rail United States: Greater Boston: 2.28 [87] 2.5 2012 2022 The new Lechmere station under construction in May 2020: Highway Vespucio Oriente Tunnel (road) Chile: Santiago: 1.1 1.2 2017 2022
Siemens S70 Green Line train at SDSU Transit Center, on the station's opening day (July 10, 2005). The Green Line is the third line in the San Diego Trolley system, with service beginning on July 10, 2005 along with the completion and opening of the 5.9 miles (9.5 km) [1] Mission Valley East extension.
In 2018, the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System launched Elevate San Diego, a public participation plan that will address the needs for the growing population, and eventually invoke Assembly Bill 805, and increase the half-cent sales tax within MTS jurisdiction via ballot proposition. It has been postponed indefinitely due to the pandemic. [6]
Old Town Transit Center, also known as San Diego–Old Town station, or Old Town San Diego station, is an intermodal transportation station in the Old Town neighborhood of San Diego, California. It is served by Amtrak 's Pacific Surfliner , the COASTER commuter rail service, and the San Diego Trolley , as well as numerous San Diego Metropolitan ...