Los Angeles' Metro Network Evolution
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- From its beginning in 1973, Los Angeles' subway, light rail, and busway network has grown to 119 stations, spanning 155 miles (249 kilometers). This animated video takes you through the timeline of when new stations were opened, forming the Metro network that we know today.
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Los Angeles 801 A Blue line light rail
Los Angeles 802 B Red line subway
Los Angeles 803 C Green line light rail
Los Angeles 805 D Purple line light rail
Los Angeles 806 E Expo line light rail
Los Angeles 901 G Orange line busway
Los Angeles 910/950 J Silver line busway
Los Angeles K Pink line light rail
Los Angeles 810 El Monte busway
Los Angeles 809 Harbor Transitway
It's so funny how the perception is that LA doesn't have public transit. I'm visiting next month and had no idea I could take subway and light rail to a lot of the destinations on my to-do list. Very informative!
How did it go?
Yeah I’m very curious. They’ve expanded the metro quite a lot but LA is still a very difficult place to commute without a car
Public transit was limited to buses only between 1962 and 1990. Still not perfect but we now have the fourth largest urban rail network in the nation.
Does it, go, to the Oscars?
@@humanman3000 Yes. There is a subway station at Hollywood and Highland that is very close.
UPDATE: The Regional Connector ended up opening in June 16, 2023. The K Line ended up opening in October 7, 2022. The C and K Line future connection plan shown in this video is based from Option 3 of the plan. Option 3 involves the K Line running up to Norwalk and the C Line (Green) in its current route, but with its eastern terminus being cut back to Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station. In reality, the LA Metro board approved Option 2 of the plan instead. Option 2 involves the K Line being extended up to Redondo Beach and the C Line being rerouted to LAX/Metro Transit Center station (Aviation/96th station). The new C Line will run from Norwalk directly to LAX Airport, just like what LA Metro had envisioned in the 1990's. Part of the C Line's current route towards El Segundo and Redondo Beach will be taken over by the K Line.
And many more new Light Rails, Line Extensions and Subways to come
And with completion, LA will finally have replicated the Pacific Electric lines that were taken out in the 1950s. Too bad that the Big Red Cars weren't maintained to modern standards all along instead of being abandoned for freeways. I'm old enough to have ridden the Red Car from El Monte to Downtown with my Mom and Nana.
I grew up in Huntington Park in the late Fifties into the Sixties and I remember the streetcar tracks running down the middle of Pacific Ave... streetcars were gone though. It was always a mystery to me why they were discontinued. My maternal grandmother and uncle rode them to and from work and wished for them back when they were gone.
Not quite. PE at its height had 1000 miles of track and was the largest in the World. With these we'll only have about 150 miles. Still good enough for the second largest system in North America though.
@@juststeve7665 The people lost trust in the rail companies, they were private industries who made lines to profit and bribed city officials. People simply trusted private transportation more and voted on things for cars and voted against things for rail. In some ways, people thought private transportation would be best, thinking it could usher some sort of utopian city; we see now how that is ‘t the case, and we increasingly need more and more decent public transit as population and traffic increased
Most of the lines follow all or some of the old Pacific Red Car lines, so the Metro is basically an indirect successor to the Red Cars
@@themoviedealers considering the state of the metro that’s depressing
Amazing to see how this system evolved in a relatively short time to such a big network. I wish Philly had the resources to bring back some of their closed lines and expand.
Well, we voted three different times to increase our sales tax in both the city of L.A. and County. And because of that, many of the projects also qualified for matching federal funding. Where there is a will, there is a way.
lol
It’s not enough. Most of the lines will struggle with capacity. 3 car trains without the ability to run 20-30TPH can’t move many people.
It's not that the SEPTA Board can't do what L.A. has done, they WON'T. They do not care what you, me or anyone thinks. They could have secured the land of the old G.E. Plant on Elmwood Avenue so that they have a new depot for new low-floor trolleys. When Councilman Kenyatta Johnson and State Senator Anthony Williams instead "secured" the land for Amazon, SEPTA seemed relieved and chose not to secure it through Eminent Domain.
Yes, I’ve always said that, in barely 30 years, and mind you the distances in LA are huge. But, we voted 3 times to increase our sales tax 1/2 a cent to expedite these projects, so it cannot be said we are blindly in love with our cars and roads, when 75% of the “yes” voters were and are car owners. We love and want a broader public transportation option.
I can't believe how big the Blue and Gold lines are gonna be in 2022. Long Beach to Azusa? East LA to Santa Monica? Damn!
True, in fact in the future the A Line (Blue) will go all the way to Montclair becoming the longest light rail line in the world at 60+ miles long, that’s totally long but it will be a big change in all of LA’s rail line network.
And the E Line (Gold) that goes to East LA at Atlantic Blvd will be extended part of the Eastside Extension will go all the way to Whittier ending at Lambert St, personally I think it should have gone all the way to Downtown Whittier, there was a point that the line was going to run along the 60 Fwy serving South El Monte as well, but that extension segment was deemed with huge big problems, from a nearby landfill, to a huge power lines near the Montebello Mall, and also a large dam in Whittier Narrows that was too difficult to pass by, and also that planned extension was awful running near the freeway taking you in the middle of nowhere.
But yeah those two lines will be fantastic in the near future.
@@thestone30080 Indeed, and the extension to Whittier will include three underground stations and some aerial ones too.
@@thestone30080 When are they gonna finish all of that
Metrolink: Am I a joke to you?
@@theorignalmartian1261 These will be done when the Regional Connector opens. Very soon now, they are already running test trains on it. Probably July 23.
You should do Seattle: Their network is immense and will almost triple over the next 5 years:
*their network will become immense. It definitely isn't yet.
Not that immense but lots of modes (ferry, light rail, streetcar, monorail, busway, etc.)
@@avenir7337 diverse, yes
Will be, in a couple years
@@avenir7337 No love for the trolley buses?
I've been trying to find a simple explainer for a non-southern californian of Metro's planned expansions for a while (Wikipedia is hard to follow), and this is exactly what I needed. Plus the history of how the system formed is great.
Just discovered this channel and I can’t stop watching lo
Same. Also hello osc buddy
Welcome to the party
Maybe 6 or 7 years ago (whenever it was that the Space Shuttle made that epic trek from LAX to CSC), I flew into the airport and took Metro all the way to Pasadena. Being from Chicago, I expected LA transit to be aggravating and awful but It was super easy to use and navigation was a snap. Good ridership at that hour too. The subway stations are beautiful and the transfer at Union Station was a treat. Hope they get going with 'Subway to the Sea' soon.
I think it depends on Metro at this point :/ To them it's not that enticing given the low density of Wilshire west of the VA, and given the ever rising costs of Subway construction and the need for new lines in other areas, the E Line from Santa Monica to LA might be all we get for a while :/
Sorry but as an American who has lived in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Tokyo the metro in LA sucks. It's incredibly slow with no direct air port connections along with pretty long headways in between trains. They need to do much more to compete with their peer cities in the pacific.
@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv That lies with Metro and more specifically the rogue Metro Operations Dept. Metro has decreased services on their lines so much since I first started riding, with little to no explanation as to why they are doing so. At least no explanation that doesn't read as "We are doing this to save pennies". Its so ridiculous that the LRT lines come more frequently than the Subway lines, and its ridiculous that LADOT fights any kind of service increase on the LRT past 6 minute headways.
@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv On board with the lack of a direct airport connection. Both of Chicago's airports have L stations but LA wasn't THAT bad. Reminded me of the Logan connection to the T. Hell, reminded me of NYC airport connections. Honestly I was expecting the worst and it was fine. (For America ... no comparison to your Asian experiences.)
@@robertcrafton7187 Burbank Airport has a direct connection, albeit through a very long walkway. Since Southwest serves Burbank now, it's one of the better ways to get to the LA area from across the country -- with both Amtrak and Metrolink service taking you across the region from there.
"interstate 10"
And that's how we know he isn't from Southern California!
That and he pronounced Pico as "Pick-oh".
10 Fwy ...and pico Rivera essay!
Eric Underwood class of 81 Downey High School California...grew up on Telegraph Rd Pico /Downey border
But it is! It goes from Santa Monica to Florida! Check the map out!
@@ManuelLopez-vg6sp Nobody from California callas any Interstate or California Freeway "Interstate 10" or "Freeway 210." We all call freeways "the." For example, for me to drive to my grandparent's home in Santa Monica, I take the 210 to the 57 to the 60 to the 10. The likely reason we say "the," is because we have so many freeways that saying the full prefix is a pain, especially when giving instructions.
@@ManuelLopez-vg6sp yeah we know...but us locals in LA just call it the 10 Fwy...listen to a broadcast of LA traffic...you'll see what I mean....and out on the 10 Fwy we have a accident....traffic backed up...get it?
I would give LA's transit an A+ for effort, but a C+ for implimentation. It's a vast sprawling metro region with high density throughout, so light rail with small vehichles makes very little sense for much of the region. LA is far better suited for an S-Bahn or RER like regional rail network, with BRT branch lines connecting it together. I hope that along with all of Measure M's promised expansions, we see a Metrolink upgrade to make it a true RER network. I also hope that they eventually replace 2-4 lanes of every highway with a dedicated busway.
The A and E lines WILL be an RER type service once the Regional Connector opens. A couple months away now.
@@themoviedealers There isn't nearly enough capacity on the LRV's being used to properly serve such a massive population, especially when speed and frequency on the light rail lines are so low. The technology being used really only works on maybe 20km long lines, but LA Metro's LRT lines are over 50km. Fast suburban rail with headways of 10-20 minutes and a 1000+ passenger capacity really should be used for those distances. Or at least, a grade separated, automated light metro system with 3 minute headways - not a grade variable tramway. It's an absolutely ridiculous waste of resources to use low capacity light rail with a maximum speed of 80kmph for those kinds of trips. The money would be far better spent building more dedicated busways with enough drivers that they're a decent 10 minute frequency. It's all around terrible planning, as most of those light rail lines will have to be retrofitted into proper grade separated metro systems in order to properly serve the transit needs of greater Los Angeles. Unless LA Metro builds the transit system that the city actually needs, it will always be a polluted, congested hell of car-dependancy.
@@RoboJulesYou obviously don't know the city at all or how these transit projects are funded which has a lot to do with what project is built.
That being said, the ideal system would be mostly subways, but the issue of cost per mile comes into play. It's prohibitively expensive
So the result is a system that is being expanded in the most efficient way possible that results in the most comprehensive coverage of not just LA City, but LA County too, and that has to do with the funding which requires transit projects to be spread out throughout the County.
In terms of the actual light rail lines that have been built, they are all partially grade separated with either underground or aerial stations or both to avoid the most problematic areas.
Our light rail lines have dedicated ROWs too. They are not trams or streetcars as you see in Europe that share the street ROW with other vehicles.
That being said, we are building more subways and elevated automatic people movers too.
Though I do agree that we need many more BRT lines. BTW, we also have a shuttle type service called DASH that operates in certain areas and is convenient and inexpensive too.
it wouldve worked if it was mostly underground
@@secretagentcat that's called a subway and it's the most costly to build. That's why it's not done. Cost per mile is paramount to expand the system as quickly as possible. Metro has done a good job balancing cost per mile and overall efficiency.
I was just shy of turning 4 when the Blue Line opened. We took it to Long Beach, and visited the Spruce Goose and Queen Mary. Still to date, my only time setting foot on the Queen Mary. We were all so excited when the new rail line opened. It has been a joy to see the growth firsthand throughout the years.
And this expansion is necessary given that LA is going to be hosting the 2028 Olympics.
No. This expansion is necessary because over 10 million people live in LA metro area. Public transit is made to serve local residents, not some tourists.
@@etunimi1208 why not both? We both know that had the Olympics not come to Salt Lake City in 2002, there wouldn't be a light rail system there.
we're gonna need much more to handle the surge of the 2028 olympics. Much much more:
@@anglobostonian
Yes. It can benefit both, but expensive new rail lines should not be built to serve Olympic venues which are going to be used for just three upcoming weeks in 2028.
LA held the Olympics last time in 1984 when they had basically no public rail infrastructure and it went fine. Why would you now invest so much money for some tourist who are not paying the expenses?
And not that it matters, but I believe Salt Lake City would have nowadays light rail even if they wouldn't have had the Olympics 20 years ago.
This expansion isn't even good enough. LA most likely needs 200 miles of new subway lines. Not light rail but heavy rail.LA has terrible traffic so the only way to aleviate it is build quick convenient subway lines. If you get to work 30 to 60 minutes on the subway then why drive.
I love it! Some of your pronunciations of LA locations are a bit off, but overall its a great transit history video! Its easy to forget how much LA's system has expanded since Measure A was passed in the 80's.
lol he ways calling Pico station Picko station
@@chromebomb yeah, Pico is pronounced the same as the metric system's root 'pico'
Understandable considering the generally Hispanic names
@@Poopsticle_256 Pico is latin so it's the same in all the branch languages. Pee-ko
Those mispronunciations were annoying to listen too.
I’ve always found it strange that only the red and purple lines are actual subway lines but the rest is totally different, the difference being light rail and BRT... It kinda amazes me that they made it all work together pretty well.
they wanted to make more subways but while making it sinkholes in Hollywood started happening
@@bloozy7350 That wasn't the reason they stopped with the subways. It was overall more expensive than light rail but also for stupid political reasons. A law was passed blocking funding for subway construction.
@@theexmann You can blame Reagan and Clinton for that, fuck them
@@sygneg7348 No, the law that was passed banning funding for subway construction was a LA County law supported by two West LA politicians, Zev and Waxman. They cared more about their political careers than doing the right thing for public transit and LA voters who support it. It delayed mew subway construction by 20 years when the law was finally overturned.
Costs are also an issue. Heavy Rail can cost double per mile than Light Rail. Los Angeles is so huge they are going for more coverage than better service.
That being said, the line through the Sepulveda Pass should be Heavy Rail subway.
Missing items:
- Foothill Transit also operates on El Monte busway with Silver Streak service
- San Pedro Red Car is sort of light rail
- There were freeway bus stops on Harbor Freeway before current setup. They were on the side kind of like how the San Pedro area stop area.
- Hollywood Freeway had and still has freeway bus stops. They are mostly forgotten but a few buses stop there during rush hour
- Downtown LA had contra flow lanes on Spring Street. They are long gone, but would have been considered BRT had they lasted.
San Pedro Red Car is heritage streetcar mainly for tourism not light rail. (It's a bit of a continuum humantransit.org/2010/03/streetcars-vs-light-rail-is-there-a-difference.html)
A bit off topic but yeah the silver line gap looks a bit weird, I'd probably add in the dashed lines into downtown at least.
@@wesleylin3175 didn't it shut down?
@@wesleylin3175 I think the San Pedro Red Car is dead now that they are completely redoing Ports O' Call.
These videos are so relaxing to watch. Thank you so much, I hope you enjoy making them as much as I love watching them!
You should start much further back when LA had the red trolleys. Literally probably the greatest public transit system in America and ripped it all out
Well, it was both the Red and Yellow street cars. The Yellow cars were within the city and the Red cars took you further out to neighboring cities. The growing problem with the system was that the Yellow cars had no dedicated track so they had to share the road with cars which caused the Yellow cars travel times to slow tremendously so people slowing started to ride them less and using cars more. Some people think that wasn't by coincidence. The Red cars did have some dedicated lines and several of those right of ways are not being reused in the new Metro system. For example, the Expo Line partially uses one of those ROWs to get to Santa Monica from DTLA..
It would take him years to do that video.
I liked that you included their near-term expansion plans.
When you’re so early the video is only in 360p
Amazing work on this very detailed video! Thanks for your efforts.
Love the videos! Is Chicago planned for a future video?
Chicago is the second oldest and second largest in the country. And when cta took over they closed SEVERAL lines that used to run so i think it would be very interesting!
@@Sweepout Yes I completely agree! Some of the closures made sense while others seem to have been shortsighted closures. Either way, it would be a very interesting video
I am British. I have just discovered your videos. They are excellent! In particular thanks for including segregated busways in your discussion. European commentators on public transit systems tend to confine themselves to rail based systems and ignore busways, even though there are some excellent examples in Europe. Perhaps the best busway in Europe is in the Netherlands. It runs from Haarlem via Hoofdorp, Schiphol Airport and Amstelveen to a major interchange at Bijlmer Arena on the southern edge of Amsterdam.
Hello fellow British person!
The one you have labeled as “University City” is “Universal City.” It’s at Universal Studios.
This video was well done, direct to the point. Thank you.
Once the D line goes to Century City, I will be able to take the subway to work!
LA still got about 565 miles of track to catch up to New York City's 665 miles of track 😅
Maybe but the Tri State Area also has at least 6 million more than LA county
really exciting to see los angeles investing in more transit
Sadly it's too little too slow
Another well researched (IMO) and very well presented video. Too bad Ann Northrup (R) of course) stopped the Louisville, KY light rail project. It would've served Muhammed Ali Airport, U of L, downtown and crossed the Ohio to S. Indiana.
I'm scared the BYD proposal will be taken for the Sepulveda line...
Same here
let us pray it doesn't!!!!!!
@@aaravyadav3748 Tell Bel Air about their views being ruined for the monorail!
Be afraid, be very afraid.
This was great thank you
This was a very informative video! I've heard about the Purple Line extension, and I fully support it, as I believe that it's stop near Westwood Village will be vital for UCLA students. I also think that they should try to extend the Purple Line all the way to Downtown Santa Monica, so that way there can be two train options in the beachside city.
At bare minimum it needs to attach to the densest developments inbetween; like Century City as a prime example… that aspect alone increasingly makes me wonder what the holdup on the D/purple line was in the first place…
Extending the Purple Line to Santa Monica would be amazing.
@@FlyingOverTr0ut I agree. It would live up to the “Subway to the Sea” slogan.
@@schwenda3727 Technology to tunnel around methane pockets. With new boring machines the tunneling is much safer.
@@schwenda3727there will be a station in century city.
I was actually hoping to see you include that line they're planning on building through the Sepulveda pass next to the 405, connecting the west side to the San Fernando Valley. I heard there are competing proposals for a heavy rapid transit line, or a light rail line, or even a monorail line. Apparently they found the fact that monorails can climb a steeper grade helpful in this situation... Also it seems that as of right now, the system in LA is very downtown-centric, which could make that general area a choke point in the system. Maybe some sort of belt or ring line that covers the near suburbs would make sense.
This channel only covers projects that have had the construction tendered out, it doesn't include planned projects. Also the Monorail is an absolutely horrible idea, and for LA's sake I hope they don't go for that. Watch Nandert's video if you're interested in the details.
@@Absolute_Zero7 To be fair, I am not at all a fan or proponent of their monorail option. I was actually surprised to hear that they've been considering it. Apparently they think the monorail option might work better with steeper grades of the pass and allow them to not have to tunnel as much. Personally I think heavy rapid transit is probably their best option. The demand for capacity along the route makes it the best option.
@@CSSBTGaming Totally cool. However if steeper grades is what you want, ICTS is probably a better choice of technology.
@@Absolute_Zero7 I can see that ICTS has that benefit. Although I suspect if LA Metro does give up on the monorail idea, they'll most likely use the technologies and rolling stocks that have already been implemented in their existing system on the Sepulveda line. So they will probably end up running either their LRT vehicles or the rapid transit vehicles found on the B and D lines on the new line. Personally I doubt LRT would offer nearly enough capacity for the line.
@@CSSBTGaming As I said I highly reccomend you watch Nandert's video on the topic.
I recommend you do an update next year after the LAX People Mover and the D Line subway extension to La Brea open.
Nice video! Cant wait to see Philly!
Please do Chicago! I'd love to hear you explain skip stops.
Skip stop is not really something that would be worth discussing IMO
@@QuarioQuario54321 might be. You realize this channel isn’t only watched in the USA. 🙄
The rail lines also had internal route numbers (I have noticed some of your other videos have internal route numbers for services, but this one doesn't). Also, the stop on the red line is Universal City (not University City). It is also the stop for Universal Studios and the Universal Studios Tour. This video will need to be updated again soon because of the proposed new rail services along the Santa Ana branch as well as the new services through Sepulveda Pass. In both cases, the exact alignments and stations have not been finalized.
The rail lines have letters now
San Diego's Blue Line ends at University City.
Amazing Video, Just wondering if you can do one on the Sound Transit Link LRT?
Well done!
When I went to LA to visit I couldn't rent a car, But when we went we used the Metro and some of the buses, We stayed downtown. The transit system impressed me tbh. My daughter loved it and was fascinated with the trains, TBH so was I. I had already taken Amtrak there and back. I had never been in a Subway nor have I ever been on a train. Even though we didn't have a car, we still had a lot of fun. We loved it. I believe we used the E and the L. We did go to the pier and we did go and visit my Fiances dad. A lot of fun even with using the subway system.
Do you know why the video is only available in 360p?
TH-cam’s taking forever to process it into HD for some reason. I thought it’d be done by the time I scheduled it, but I guess not. The file is HD though - once it’s done processing it should be better.
@@VanishingUnderground I dunno why TH-cam takes so long to process videos sometimes, it happens quite alot for me
@@Saucy-ws6jc the video would be longer if he included the Pacific Electric
@@Saucy-ws6jc He does not include mixed traffic lines, which street cars are. Watch the Boston video for lines, which are only partially included. The BRT lines are this way to. He does not show where lines go in mixed traffic.
@@tntmaster1104 Realistically, an extra 16mins longer
I like this video and the videos are related to trains and I like trains that’s why I subscribed to you.
I love transit and know lots about it and take it everywhere in LA and its so interesting to know the history!
Thanks! Great video! LA local here so only one piece of feedback: name is Universal City (vs. University City ). Keep up the great work!
for people u enjoyed this video, I STRONGLY recommend nandert's series on a LA's transit expansions
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A very good video, truly. However, you forgot a couple of projects to be listed, though I'm sure you had a reason you didn't include them. The projects I'm talking about in particular are the West Santa Ana Project, the Sepulveda Transit Project, the Torrance Extension Project, the Whittier Project, the Hollywood Extension Project, the Burbank Extension project, the Van Nuys Corridor project, and many more that I can't remember to mention at the moment.
Torrance C Line Extension Project goes to Crenshaw Blvd at the new Torrance Bus Center. Van Nuys Blvd Project is decided to be LRT.
I live in Los Angeles and am rightfully ashamed of our transit system and the company (Metro) that operates it. When riding you have to step around, if not over, the homeless people that literally live on the buses, trains and subway along with their trash if not their human waste. They ride, for example, from Union Station all the way on the subway to North Hollywood sleeping sprawled out over several seats with their body odor making you sick if your stop doesn't come soon enough. The Transit Police ignore them totally.
Excited for an eventual Bay Area episode!
Shout out to the Orange line, I remeber seeing the construction to expand it to Chatsworth every day when going to school. Now I take it nearly every day
There are plans to convert the Orange Line to light rail.
I thought the valley was getting a light rail system
It's said it will open in 2028, his video ends in 2027
The Van Nuys LRT.
You should do NYC Subway, Bus, and Commuter Lines... but that will take a while and a lot of explanation to do.
Yup.
It will be released at the end of the year.
Maybe an update to this truly wonderful video would be detailing the evolution of pre-1970s Los Angeles light rail. The streetcar network used to be very extensive, and I appreciate the re-addition of light rail but mourn the need
Something you missed: In 2020 the gold line was split up and the original Little Tokyo closed, in preparation for the regional connector.
7:35 has the split
Rip original gold line 2003-2022
Rip expo line color 2012-2022
Realize just how massive LA is in area. The city of Santa Monica itself is about the width of Manhattan and comparable to midtown to the financial district in square miles. Imagine packing all of LA's metro trains underground into Santa Monica, and more. That would be Manhattan's public transportation!! In fact, Times Square station serves more lines than all of LA!
For reference, Santa Monica is 9 square miles. Los Angeles is 503 square miles. Manhattan is 22 square miles. To get some of the same coverage as NYC, LA will still have to build so much more. The biggest issue with using the metro lines is that you have to travel far distances to even reach a station.
Good starting point, The Silver J lines are connected and go from San Pedro/Long Beach to El Monte. Also LA has more trains like commuter rails expanding all of Southern California
You should post an update once the k line and regional connector.
The east San Fernando line, noho Pasadena brt and Vermont brt are all planned to open this decade
It’s a good network but I think it needs to be expanded much more to suit the size of LA. In an ideal world 2 more subway lines and 5 new light rail lines
Agreed, but it's getting there. In addition to the new Crenshaw Light Rail opening in about a year or so, they should quickly extend it North to connect with the B (Red) line in Hollywood. They also need to extend the B (Red) subway line South underneath Vermont from Wilshire. We also need a subway line to East L.A. It was originally proposed back in the 80s. It should run beneath Whittier Blvd. Of course the Sepulveda route is currently being discussed, but they haven't decided whether it will be a subway or light rail. And there is also discussions about the West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor that will serve Southeast Los Angeles cities and county areas. That will go from DTLA to Cerritos.
La needs to start rezoning the city.
@@theexmann Metro eliminated the Sepulveda light rail option. Only looking a Subway or monorail.
I wish the California High Speed Rail and Brightline West would connect with this network if they both built tracks to Los Angeles (especially after CHSR's line from Merced to Bakersfield)
You missed one important new line that is further along and the draft EIR has already been completed. It's called the West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor and will go from DTLA to Cerritos to serve communities in Southeast L.A.
Two new lines and one expansion were not mentioned. Both the San Fernando Valley and the Southeast Gateway lines have had their final EIRs approved and should start construction in 1 or 2 years. The extension of the East LA E line section further East should have it's final EIR approved ahortly as well. Starting construction in about 2 years. These three projects should be done within 8-10 years from now. Very exciting. We'll have 10 lines by then. 6 light rail, 2 subway, and 2 BRTs if not more. It could be 11 lines if the Sepulveda Pass line could sneak in there, too if it gets fast tracked adding a 3 heavy rail subway line to the mix. It would make LA Metro the second largest metro system in the USA behind NYC. To increase the number of rail lines by 50% in 10 years would be amazing!
This was a great story about the Los Angeles Metro systems while I cannot be there.
All of these expansions before the 2028 Olympics
Metro is talking about extending the Crenshaw Line north towards West Hollywood, Hollywood. There are 3 options.
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I nearly moved to LA from SD with some friends, maybe ten or twelve years ago, BECAUSE of the layout of the train. It's an aspect of life that I think not many ppl associate with LA. It goes virtually everywhere important. The house we'd be living at - it was going to be super easy access to the train. I had a car at the time but it was a 2000. It had like 100k+ miles on it, despite the fact that I took care of it. I don't think it could've handled LA driving. I was all ready to lose the car, so I could bike, walk or train it. Lyft last minute emergency. Lol. I had the jobs with potential interviews lined up too, whenever I was to be ready. But alas here we are. Life goes other ways. I'm still in my hometown city, two hours south, and is like a "mini-LA" in the worst ways though. And we still have the dumbest public transport AND street design I've ever seen.. and no more options like car2go since 2015. sigh.
Damn. Now I'm thinking; I took such good care of that car too. Until the 18 y/o kids (a couple), in their black SUV Escalade, decided to slam on their brakes, in front me. Why...? And on the freeway. And in rush hour. So it's automatically "my" fault. Even though, believe me; my car was DONE FOR. Their Escalade didn't get a scratch from me. They were actually really chill about it. Dumbasses, still.
I lived in LA the summer of 1995. I got to experience from Hermosa Beach the green line (had to go about a mile from the beach to catch it at the Marine/Redando stop). It was nice to avoid the traffic the few times I went downtown and take the train in. The rest of the time I had to drive south daily to Orange County where the office I worked in was located. Driving on I-405 was horrible, to say the least to get to work every day. I cannot imagine what that road is now today 30 years later. The K line from the airport which I know is under construction will help some for those who want to avoid the traffic while visiting.
I think you meant the 405 freeway. Yeah, it's a bloody nightmare!
@@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome You are right, corrected. The road was bad back then. I can only imagine what is like now. So sorry you have to drive that!
@@Buc_Stops_Here Orange County is NIMBYism at its worse. The OC politicians keep expanding the 405 south of the 605, now they are installing Toll Lanes.
Time to update the Video as some recent changes have been made.
A and E Lines Regional Connector opened in June 2023
K Line opened in October 2022
K Line extends to redondo Beach in 2024.
C Line will now terminate at LAX.
D Line will also extend in 2024
Need a New Map for the conclusion
Do Chicago area next
Cool video! Unfortunately L.A. is 100 years behind on public transportation! Lol
Being only 100 years behind is an improvement.
Can you please do San Francisco next?
Coming later this summer
The Bart or Muni
Would love to see a DART video. The system is huge
Could you do Philadelphia PA?
Los Angeles says transit system is one of the reasons I want to move there.
It's not that great though...
@@andrepoiy1199 yea 1.Traffic over there is soo long
you have to live near a station for it to be really useful
@@ciello___8307 yea that’s true I live right next to the Canoga Orange Line Station
@@ciello___8307 and out there that is not that hard to do.
Ten years ago, my family visited my brother who lives NW of LA. We don't live in the US, and live in a city with a decent transit system that my young teenage kids used often. In our discussion about transit, my 11 year old Californian niece innocently commented, "buses only go where nannies live." We all laughed because what she said was both true and horrifying at the same time. The next year, they visited us, and while the adults enjoyed a sunny afternoon on my deck, my kids took her on transit downtown and they were back before dinner. My brother, who grew up here, was stunned at the efficiency of our system, but he was also terrified that kids safe in the suburbs were that close to downtown. (A decade later, all our kids have grown up to be fine young adults). Anyway, hoping to hear about LA having transit that goes to where the nannies live, but also lots of other places.
The southeast of LA County is getting a line to Artesia before 2028. It will start in Downtown and run along side the Blue Line for a while, on old Pacific Electric right of way, the Santa Ana Branch. Santa Ana itself is getting a streetcar as well.
What you see in this video started after 1990. This is the SECOND time Los Angeles built a transit network. The first was the Red Cars lines that were dormant for decades, ironically the same tracks being recycled for this re-birth of rail.
No love for the Yellow cars?
Red Cars were more like Metrolink; the Yellow Cars were for shorter trips like Metro Rail.
What's the name of the background instrumental beat?
This map needs an update. So much inconsistent decisions by politicians changed the outcomes of the future plans (which are now history).
We got to see the peak of the colored lines: A, B, C, D, E, G, J, K, and L. And the K Line will go it's original route plan from like 2008 with southern terminus at Redondo Beach. The C Line will realign to LAX/Metro TC (Aviation/96th)
Please do new york city for this series
He will do that at the end of the year.
Please do new york
It would be really good if a station to service LAX. I'll need a way to get into town after I land :)
They are planning to build a sort of people mover that will connect LAX to the transit system, I dont remember when it will open tho
@@maurioooe1973 It will open when the Aviation/96th station opens on the K line, which directly connects to it.
Can you do Philadelphia?
Rip gold line 2003->2022
Rip expo line color 2012 to 2022
And finally L.A is getting a reasonable transit system. I hope you Angelinos use the system when you can and tell all visitors you meet about it..
As a New Yorker. I approve of this message.
request:can you make a of bay area rapid transit network evolution
Finally
Can you do septa ??
They're also going to build a Santa Ana line and a Sepulveda Pass line. God! I hope they don't use monorail as I heard they are planning to do. Better to go with subway, skytrain, or Montreal-style metro trains.
You forgot the Pacific electric railway it originated form LA all the way to MT Baldy/Lake Arrowhead
Did hear about the train that travels in the speed of light
The K Line would not be extended to Norwalk but will eventually connect to the Green Line once the LAX connector is finished, but there are plans to extended it to the purple line
Update. the K Line will run between Redondo Beach and Exposition. The C line will run from Norwalk to the LAX Rental Car structure.
Please do Phoenix!
You guys forgot to service Glendale and Burbank
talk about the ones underground!!
Great video 😁 why LA metro looks like it could be in Phoenix Or Dallas, it’s absolutely absurd that it looks like this. There are lots of measures to catch up to what it supposed to be but I feel like they’re only doing this because they wanna look good for the Olympics not to actually benefit the people of LA
I know LA America’s second largest City and should be able to hold a candle to smaller US cities like DC and Chicago, however in their fairness LA’s a lot less decently populated and far more spread out so public transportation is more difficult
An excellent overview of the transit system development in LA.
However your diction and pronunciation really needed to be better. Additionally it would help enormously if the narrative could be slowed down to match the pace of the graphic. It was hard to see on the map what your comments related to.
Hope you’re not offended by these suggestions.
This was truly a very interesting post. Thanks for your hard work.
I hear they’re just now beginning to study/plan very accordingly for a line around/through the historically congested Sepulveda Pass.
But now looking at their current lettering scheme, does anyone have any idea exactly if/where an F, H, or I Line is going to go? It seems a bit like they’re missing but they’re quite likely going to join everything accordingly between A & at least K if/when everything’s said & done…
LA needs to get the purple line extended all the way to Santa Monica.
I agree, but I'm sure a lot of people will be like "the expo line goes there already"
My man mispronounced some words, who cares? He already had to make this beautifully made video, at least he did A LOT of researches of the expansion