Metro Rail service to East LA is celebrating its 15th birthday this month — so we had a Quincea?era today with roving mariachi bands on the E Line between Atlantic and Little Tokyo/Arts District stations! We extend a huge thank you to the bands that joined us this morning -- Mariachi Cielito Lindo and Mariachi Las Catrinas. The six-mile Eastside Extension opened as part of the former Gold Line in November 2009 with eight new stations between Union Station, Boyle Heights and East LA. At the time, rail transit had been absent from the Eastside for 46 years. When the Regional Connector opened in downtown L.A. in 2023, the Eastside Extension became part of the E Line. That gave Eastside riders a direct rail trip to/from the heart of DTLA along with three new underground stations. There’s more rail coming. The Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2 project will extend the E Line for nine miles to Commerce, Montebello, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, Whittier and the communities of East LA and West Whittier-Los Nietos. Construction of the first phase of the project to Montebello is scheduled to begin in 2029. To learn more, please see https://lnkd.in/gEkycWnN
To bad Gloria Molina could not attend. It was her brain child
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Keep growing
Outstanding!!!
Keeping everyone safe Joshua Tomoyasu
Mailroom and Office Assistant
6 天前Congratulations Metro Rail. I really hope that the rail system not only expands throughout LA County, but I also think that LA Metro should seriously consider converting its current light-rail lines, including the E line, into full rapid-transit like the B and D lines.