Imagine being able to travel from one side of Southern California to the other on Metro trains without ever having to leave your seat. When Metro’s Regional Connector opens June 16, riders will be able to travel from Azusa to Long Beach, East LA to Santa Monica all on one train.
https://abc7.com/los-angeles-metro-regional-connector-long-beach-azusa/13285561/
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If this metro guy's definition of creating safety is having a lot of people riding the train he is totally wrong. Maybe its true for other cities but he fails to mention that LA has a open sewer of a mental institution on its public transit system.
I’m sorry but 10 years for 3 connected stations is pathetic af. Los Angeles could be so much greater with a proper transit system. There a way too many people who live in the greater LA area who have to drive.
That's great.. How about Rider safety first… Metro …. your trains no matter what line it is never feel safe, From all the homeless aboard riding back and forth to the mentally ill and the assaults & murders… Those Ambassadors you hire are useless… Whenever my GF rides your trains she has to carry pepper spray and sit next to the conductor facing the carriage to keep an eye on trouble … Do Better if you want ridership.. The Metro Board needs to ride their own line… No media, NO announcements you're showing up so your staff cleans it up before you board…RIDE IT LIKE EVERYDAY PEOPLE..
Getting the regional connector finished, getting the Crenshaw line to LAX and getting the purple line to UCLA is all cool but people still won't ride it much. It's slow, unsafe and still doesn't go to enough places.
Couldn’t show a map?
I am visiting Los Angeles in mid July and can’t wait to ride ! Any suggestions on what to do for fun would be appreciated!!
does metro ever make money?
So glad to see that homeless and drug addicts will now be able to reach further out areas. I’m sure the politicians made this project happen to increase diversity in the suburbs
If only Orange County would be willing to connect to LA County via light rail. Or put in some rail within the county. But all they have are buses and Metrolink. Bunch of entitled morons.
The letters are a dumb organizational system. They make sense in NYC where different trains take the same lines, but L.A.'s system is more like London's. London has named lines: Piccadilly, Northern, Victoria. The Expo Line is a perfect example that we could have named lines in L.A. too. Long Beach for A. Wilshire for D. etc.
new place for homeless people to sleep.
10 years for 3 stations?! Huhhh 😅😅
yeah for homeless to go across LA county, too.
Yea! Bums can now nod off or rant from Azuza to Santa Monica!
Trains nostalgic childhood travel
Why are the trains so small???
Now do the Orange Line!
New York metro need new lines at outskirts an suburbs. Renovation also need some station an existing lines.
Like many metro lines along with light rail, once a proper line is in place, we can build on it and get people everywhere without cars.
I wish Paul "the more people riding and commuting on the system, the safer it's going to be" Krekorian would commit to utilizing the system as his personal commute to the L.A. City Council office. The system is in shambles. For reasons well documented, there are numerous individuals who have taken to intimidating (or worse) other passengers through their actions. I took the Red Line last year, and it was dreadful. The stations need at least two staff on duty for a small station, more for larger stations. Someone should supervise each platform and gate during all hours of operation. Trains need at least one roving staff member in addition to the driver and conductor. Visible staff and security personnel and police ready to respond in a timely fashion to legitimate safety issues need to be present. Paul's wishful thinking attitude won't solve the problem. We know there are sensitive issues surrounding these issues, but allowing the public transit system to become worthless to any commuter with care for their safety as a sacrifice to that is poor monetary policy in addition to bad transportation policy. We really deserve a return on our public transit investment.
Most people are looking to get out of LA County
Looking forward to this ambitious project woooo!!!!
wow!!!!
Bravo 👏 👏 👏
Can we have a METRO LINE right down the 405 🙏?
cray cray homeless people will inundate the system, ride all day, and regular people will stay away like Bart in the bay area.
Now let's see they keep out the homeless bums.
i love the rail system in many other countries like Singapore, they have the cleanest and the safest to commute in the world… if only LA would clean up crime and safety at all times, then public transportation would have been a nice family trip case of transport option. TBH at this moment, I wouldnt bring my family with me to ride a train especially on Red Line and many other lines in LA.
I used to love the subway, but now it is overrun with homeless folk doing drugs, sadly.
Sad it took so long for L.A to figure out "connect the lines" is the best idea. California just knows how to waste money but, finally something practical.
New home of the LA Homeless System.
It’s really easy to be excited about Metro…if you’re the official spokeshole.
Nice addition – a few hundred more beds for the homeless, from end of the county to the other. Nice, free place to sleep off that fentanyl come down right?
Frankly, I'm conflicted. I've been riding the Green line end to end, twice a day, five times a week for years now. It's just been on this side of acceptable all these years. Once Metro cuts the line at Aviation to curve north to LAX in a few months, I'm leaving the system. It's just too much.
People in east la trying to go to union station 👁️ 👄 👁️
should've been done 30 years ago
@1:42 yeah, it sounded too good to be true ! "The more PEOPLE?" See they EXPECT "PEOPLE" to guard the station ! Look what is happening on NY subways ! They don't even need a security guard on every train, just the presence of guards moving on and off the trains & station. He us talking about SAFETY by the riders ! Where are the security guards ! Well newsflash ! The LONGER bus & train routes, the more homeless people will PREFER those routes because less interrupted SLEEPING ! "LA." was deliberately mis-SPELLED ! The correct SPELL-ing is HELL-A ! 🤡👹
What was a round trip between East Laos Angeles and Azusa via downtown, is now a train through the worst parts of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the San Gabriel Valley. A whole new generation of homeless that have never seen the San Gabriel Valley. Living by the Metro train stations was once a convenience, now it is a curse.
so glad it finally opened… it only took 20 years…
3Metro train station is open now