Los Angeles Metro: The Red Line Subway
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- Let's take a ride on the Los Angeles Metro's Red Line subway. We depart Union Station and travel into Hollywood, getting off at Hollywood/Vine. Here we'll see a number of trains arrive and depart before heading back to downtown. Nearing the end of our ride we'll get a rear-view of the subway tracks as the train makes its last few stops.
This video was filmed during my vacation in the Los Angeles area in October, 2014. Enjoy!
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The sound of the train stoping and leaving brings back memories, my grandpa would always take the metro through L.A. when i was 7
I get the impression that the LA subway and public transportation is a hidden gem. Most people are so indoctrinated into the "you must have a car" to get around in los angeles mindset, that the few who know about this feel blessed. No traffic, and vertually no people when you consider the fact that los angeles have million of people. I live in stockholm and the subway looks the same here, and there are millions less people here.
It’s the most underrated hidden secret. Improving year after year with more rail lines, but people just assume it doesn’t go anywhere without ever having tried it.
Metro Rail sees half a million passengers a day, and growing. Doesn’t seem to be a hidden gem. 74% of LA County voted to approve a tax plan for Metro Rail expansion too.
I’m only 14 but yesterday my friend introduced me to the metro we went from east la to I think Santa Monica blvd and just skated I was so fascinated by it and plan on using the metro again
David Nissim half a million passengers a day is nothing for a city with a population of over 4 million. In Sao Paulo, we have a population of 12 million people, and the subway system sees around 7.8 million passengers per day.
Hi! I am from Argentina and I 'm travelling to L.A in January 2019. This video helps a lot since I Won't be using a car there. Thxs for sharing (It makes me feel less scared of travelling).
The train system in LA is a 360 degree turn from the past. In the 1970-80s the only way to get around was by bus, RTD. I lived on 108th ST & Western. Bus ride to Hollywood or Downtown. Nearly 2 hours. Now with the rails it takes 1 hour. Also by bus from Hollywood to downtown. 1 and a half hours. Now by rail only less than 30 minutes.
I never knew that L.A. had a subway.
honda 777 LOL had it for like 20 years already.
+honda 777 (turbo) Los Angeles has had a subway system since 1993 almost 23 years now. Where have you been?
Transport Simulator Nation oh yes....if you watch Speed this WAS the railline subway for the last action scene!
Transport Simulator Nation The Metro rail is a whole fleet of electric trains and theres a Gold,Blue,Expo,Green,Red, and i think the last line is the purple line and the red and purple are both subways and the reast are overground and sometimes go underground
Ithinkiwill66 yes. This is what I think of when I think about the metro in LA
Fun fact: The subway goes 70 mph in the hollywood area
thank you savage doritos
I'm born n raised in LA County. I've rode the trains on several occasions. Very comfortable and fast. In the 1970s II would ride on the RTD. That was the only mass transit we had. Never thought I'd see so much improvement with the addition of light rail and subways here. When the Blue Line opened in July of 1990, we were there to ride it.
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I didn't know until I saw this video that the train horn sounds are identical to the old Pacific Electric Red Cars!
I haven't ridden the LA trains since the Blue Line opened out of Long Beach in the 1980s.
My parents rode the last PE train from LB to LAX in 1961.
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This used to be my daily commute. Just gotta say, your editing skills are pretty dope. I WISH my
commute was as smooth (and uncrowded) as this!
This red line is my childhood, I would always ride it and it brings back Nostalgia, especially the voices of the station 🚉 😭☺😁
I can relate to you, when the redline extended to NOHO in 2000 I was amazed how fast and convenient the metro is.
I love the feeling when I am in any metro rail in Los Angeles. Plus, on the Green Line, you have a great view of Downtown LA especially in a sunset. In live in central California.
I love the sound it makes when approaching the station. You don't hear it so much inside the train, only outside. It makes those the octaves tones, then a steady tone. It gets me everytime I hear it. I hope someone someday make a video just about that sound and why/how it makes that sound. I know, gears or is it power decreasing? But it would be cool if a more in depth video was made just about that sound.
The guy talking:The Red Line is a subway that takes you to Hollywood.
Me:North Hollywood.*
So cool when "Jack," on "Speed," pushed ex-cop ( I forgot his name on the movie) head up into the warning light! BANG! Decapitation! My God I love that movie!!
Howard Payne 😀
At 1:51 you can literally walk this distance to the next station, I love that.
Love the trains! The Breda A650 is my favorite! Wish one train would have sounded the horn but at least they used the trombone whistle. The horn is so loud it gives me chills every time I hear it!
+Stuart Alvarez While I was riding the train, at times when I wasn't taking video, I had my iPod recording audio of the train station announcements & stuff. When departing a station they let out a short, but loud blast of the horn. It was loud even from the inside! I wish I could have gotten some video of that from the platform.
+Bobby Harvey Whenever I ride the LA subway, I always hear the whistle. I only heard the horn around twice or so. Why do they have both? I wish they used the horn as default, they sound really nice.
Chi Hyun Ahn Someome told me that the air horn is a yard warning when the trains are on the surface at the Santa Fe Yard. But it is sometime used when the driver sees a safety hazard when approaching the platform. It would be cool if it was used as a default.
+Stuart Alvarez: I personally think the red line is loud enough, though I do like the air horns. I seem to hear one about every other time I ride.
It used to be customary for the red line trains to use it when they were at least halfway to the station but still in the tunnel. It was a very awesome sound as it echoed up through the tunnel, but they were getting too many complaints I guess so they installed the dainty whistles.
I just got back from L.A. one week ago I took advantage of using the Red Line! I Love those rail cars. I wish they had more subway lines to ride
tbh i agree and im from L.A. too currently live in Phoenix i personally feel like if the city puts a little more effort into these transits more it could definitely lower the traffic especially on the 405 freeway and the I10. like NYC has a really good subway system but things in New York are a lot closer vs in LA which is more spreaded out
+itsdelann yes and NY people are used to it. I see rats on clips and that alone would keep me away. I take the metro here in LA but I know the majority of people sneer upon the idead
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It won't lower the traffic, but it will keep the traffic the same as the population increases. So, kind of a lowering.
It would basically level out or equalize when you're able to get more people to use the subway/light rail who would have otherwise used the freeways and made the traffic even worse.
That was very nice. I love watching it, and I love the sound of it.
damn..the memories...this vid takes me back to riding the train to/from class every day in 2006... Hollywood/Vine was my home station.. I dont remember that orange line being connected to the north hollywood station..they must have added it on since then, or I just forgot
I took a all rail journey from Long Beach to Sacramento ( Blue, Red, Amtrak 14/11) it was a very good journey.
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TY Bobby Harvey! We in Miami have "heavy rail" too yet it is all elevated like Bangkock! Great video and thanks for sharing!
xoxxobob Thank you!
I used to live in Los Angeles, but left before the subway was complete in 1984. Thank you for doing this video, they did a very nice job on the building this subway with large roomy stations and well lit tunnels, a excellent video. :o)
As a visitor to LA several times, I asked my friend who lives there why he doesn't use the metro and why most other people don't. He said obiviously people love their cars in California, but also that for as suburban as SoCal is, it makes more sense to ride something like Metrolink or Caltrain if you actually live around the cities of LA or San Fran for example. If you look at the map, it seems to almost have been built for tourists as from what I've read and understood, very few people actually live in the downtown or immediate metro of LA. SoCal is much less dense than a place like NYC so commuter rail is the method of choice for most who live in the area. The metro 'doesn't go anywhere' to quote my friend although the orange line up to Chatsworth hits one of Metrolink's first stops so, I guess it kind of goes farther north than in any of the other directions. I rode the metro a few times and there seemed to be quite a few homeless and the trains were empty. Didn't really inspire confidence but the trains were mostly clean and pretty fast for an underground metro. Not as fast as maybe say MARTA but, pretty speedy.
I'll be moving back to Southern California soon. The Metro Rail Line in Los Angeles, California is ten times cleaner than the MTA subways in New York City. I know...I'VE BEEN ON IT MANY TIMES!!!
but the LA metro has crazier people
@@brendanmcmahon2744 Wdym? It's calm as heck down there
I was born in Lynwood
I go to the Union station to take the subway metros
.. sometimes to Hollywood ..
the fresh breeze you feel when the train is on it's way..
idk what to choose .. the outside metro trains or these subways
My cousin Ray (Who lived on west 11th street in LA) died in 1986. Too bad he did not live to see this. He would have LOVED it!
I remember riding this line back in 2006 when I lived in LA... back and forth between hollywood/vine and hollywood/santa monica stations for school...i miss those days
You probably mean Vermont/Santa Monica cuz there's no Holly/Santa Monica...
I travelled to LA this year. I was great. The subways ir really this calm and informative!
Their going to expand every metro rail in Los angeles
All except the metro blue line. That line is staying the same, the metro gold line is being expanded way past Siera Madre Villa, and The metro Expo line is only about 40 - 50% done. I am very exited to see the lines finished, as well as the new subway and metro cars after they are FINALLY put into service.
Also the gold line to Pomona the gold line will be stoping la country fair
Thier gonna extand the east la side.........check my video I put the video that they are gonna extand the blue line to connected to the gold line check out my video
adrian lopez What will the subway's new rolling stock be?
noob168 I'm not sure, Metro has announced that they have or at least will be purhcasing new trains for the red and puple lines, but they have not released what train or from who they will be buying them from. Personally I LOVE the Breda A650. I will miss them when they're gone.
The Subway scenes in the movie ''Speed '' [1994 ] was filmed at one of these stations i think its the Pershing Square station is the one they used .
this line was taken as location for the movie "speed"
Also to the movie "Volcano" in 1997.
The video was great I enjoy every min of it .
Roger Ricalde Thanks!
There is no doubt in my mind I'll continue using LA Metro. Public Transportation is important here in LA since the county is so heavily rely on and heavily congested with cars. Metro Rail is the hidden gem for all Los Angelenos, and I am willing to bet it'll lessen traffic and lessen the amount of cars being on roads every single day.
Lived in So Cal all my life - never seen the metro or know anyone that's used it. Lol
Yeah that's the mentality but many of us are trying to educate our friends and push for policy that will diminish driving.
That's called anecdotal evidence. 500,000 people use MetroRail daily. That you don't know any of them is irrelevant.
Los Angeles actually has much more extensive rail network than a lot of East Coast cities. It's completely false that you can't get anywhere in L.A. without a car. I've traveled there many times and used only public transportation. It's an easy and mostly pleasant way to get awound.
I lived in LA for a year... all I used was the train to get around mainly because I couldnt drive my brother's manual transmission
I can understand your point of view. In high school I went to school in East Los Angeles and I knew a lot of people who did take the bus/rail metro lines. However personally I think I had only ridden it once or twice because I had never done so before. Prior to high school, with the exception of the visible rail line on the 105, I had no idea Los Angeles anything like a Metro. I've since lived in Eastern Europe and China and have seen massive rail systems that further dwarf what Los Angeles has. Considering that its so easy to finance used and new cars here we seldom see or know people who actually take the metro. In China I used it daily because there's a stop in convenient places in 1st tier cities but in Los Angeles the suburbs really don't have metro stations and so you learn to drive and deal with the traffic. Silly people who have never been in metro dense world cities don't realize that making people aware of the metro isn't going reduce driving. You have to make it accessible, affordable and convenient. This means expanding lines with stations that extend into major suburbs with convenient areas to leave your car. Bus transportation systems that take you to the metro in an efficient manner and making it all much less of a hassle to do and afford. The legal headaches with extending lines, building them efficiently and opening them up with mass appear are massive hurdles. Look at the Pasadena freeway, that thing has been wanting to be extended for decades. The 105 was able to be built so relatively quickly because it just made a path through poor neighborhoods that no one cared about but it was a very helpful project. If money wasn't an issue and if they could do to metro rail expansion to what they did with the 105 freeway, Los Angeles would have a world class metro line. However a lot of big if's of course. Who want's to pay for it? Who want's to approve it? Who wants to ride it? It have to be so damn amazing and convenient that people who say "Oh yeah I ride the rail since its so easy to get to and cheap compared to driving a car 5 days a week" Get real.
It is fun riding the train. I enjoy it.
I love that computer sound I hear in every announcement its familiar when I first used a computer and I heard that sound I want to know what windows os is that sound came from because I know its from windows or maybe linux
+Kevin XL Gamer This chimes you will find in the old Windows grey ones, from the 9x series: 95, 98 and Me as well! Just google it like Windows Me sounds you will find pronto· (;
+Kevin XL Gamer Ik they also use it on the green line
+Kevin XL Gamer But what os
The Purple line subway from Downtown Los Angeles to midWilshire is being expanded to Westwood Village and is now under construction.
So happy about that. I only wish Metro had chosen to build a north/south line connecting to Expo, the Crenshaw is not even going to reach LAX all the way.
LAX is building a people mover system to the Crenshaw line station.
13:16 Exit here for L.A. City Hall, L.A. County Superior Courts and Hall of Administration, the Music Center, Disney Hall, and the L.A. Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels.
Oh! These trains! I have taken these on some days but it a lovely train
It's cool because the red line was featured in 2 movies.
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The Los Angeles Union Station looks a lot like Grand Central Terminal in New York.
When I went to LA in 2022, I went on the Red Line and there were very meatily ill people on it talking to themselves, moving their body weirdly, etc. Me and my parents were scared on that train and fun fact, the Red Line I heard was not like that until covid.
Are these the same trains found on Baltimore and Miami's metros
This reminds of the movie volcano 1997 it my first time to ride the metro train in Los Angeles from 2021 of may 2021 I love lapd !!!!
I was 3 weeks in LA and i never saw a metro station. Giant City
I really like the look of those subway trains are they Budd car's ?
Barracuda 89 they’re Breda A650s
Most of these trains actually have the same GE AC traction motors as the now retired DC Metro 1000 series.
I wonder how long the red line subway cars,are are they 75' long,the door nomenclature,looks like the old NYC, BMT standards,which had the same door arrangements,but were only 67' long.and had a different roof.Those cars were styled by noted railroad stylist,Lewis B.Stillwell.Who also styled,the NY,W&B commuter cars,arch bar trucks,amue brakes,great trains.!
What is that high-pitched sound the train makes when it accelerates and decelerates?
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Bro the first time i saw the movie Volcano in LA i was scared asf of the red line i was 6 at the time tho
it's bin a long time I rode the metro rail I'm planning a trip to Pasadena some time soon I'll let you know how it went.
This is the train for the movie "speed"?
Yep!
And "Volcano."
I thought the interior would be the same as the New York subways
_This was in the movie "Volcano"_
Sergeant Major Jordan Rogers Don't remind me. That scene always gave me nightmares.
lol the older metro logo was creepy with the red
The station they showed near the Beverly Center was fictional; Red Line was supposed to go there originally, but an explosion at Ross Dress For Less in 1985 moved it over to Vermont Avenue.
Can someone tell me what's the name of those subway trains they are so cool I like the design and shape of them
I lived in L-A, or in one of its many suburbs, and I found using the subway to always be a nice experience. If you lived in the bedroom communities, West Covina, Covina or other suburbs EAST of the downtown area You'd catch the Blue line INTO downtown, transfer to a subway train and get downtown, or further on the Subway ( Red Line) Those naysayers, including long time residents have been brainwashed/programmed to stay in their cars, and cuss and fuss about TRAFFIC, when you have a near world-class transit system at your fat fingertips. I no loner live in L-A, but I have my children who live there. I know they don't use the system, even though they live in the Inland Empire, an area heavily serviced by the entire system.
Inland empire isn't served by Metro Rail (yet).
Why isn’t this subway system more popular like new york? this would save us a lot of time and free up some traffic!
NYC Subway has 472 stops and 36 different train lines
In La the trains go 70 mph
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What is the Computer sound on the PA I heard it on a computer once but what Operating system is that sound came from because I heard the sound on the computer back in the day
Did you get permission? I don't think so as most people just post nowdays!!
@Virginity no worries I was just confirming
The red line is going to extend to Burbank airport from north Hollywood to Burbank airport station......
The orange line is the one is going to the Burkbank airport by 2017. Instead of the bus it's going to be a light rail.
By 2017, Burbank airport will have the Orange line light rail(trolley), Amtrak & Metrolink trains that is good. It
makes sense to travel by rail with gas prices going back up, crowded streets & highways nationwide in all
Metropolitian areas.
By the year 2030 the Orange line will be connecting to the gold line in del mar station .....I have the whole map of the future site of metro rail of 2030 the green line will extand Norwalk to Norwalk Santa fe
these were the original plans when Metro was in the process of making a subway in L.A. the Red line was supposed to go to LAX but instead it went to North Hollywood, there are videos of the future projects that metro were planning. if you typed in Building Los Angeles Metro Red Line,1991 it gives you a brief story of the projects of the L.A. Metro system.
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I always like this video!😁😁😁
When you walk into one of the redline cars it smells like a farm.
Do they ever plan to add more lines for the subway system or are they just going to keep the red and purple lines?
They are expanding the system right now. Gold line to Claremont. Purple Line to Westwood. New Crenshaw Line to LAX. Extending green line to Torrance. New line to Cerritos. Subway under Sepulveda pass. New light rail in the valley.
They are extending the Purple Line right now, and adding (a lot) to the light rail network. However, there are no firm plans on additional heavy rail subway lines, nor to extend the Red Line.
It sounds like NYC's R160 Siemens Propulsion
They even sounded like the WMATA's Rohr 1000 Series
I used to ride on this subway.(north hollywood station) redline
The most embarrassing moment when I attempted to ride trains (purple line) by accident 3 times before I got the red line going to Universal City.
OMG these sound EXACTLY like WMATA's 1000 series cars after they were rehabbed by Breda!
+Official BlasianShizzle I agree
They've been in operating since 1993. So that's a 25 year life span.
Gracias por el video.
LA Metro is good, but the real metro, heavy rapid transit, is too short, that's why it's always empty· :/
Zarastroika its not always empty during rush hour the platforms have people, dont expect to get a seat by the way and ready to see a lot of standing people
About 300,000 people use the Red Line every day. They are extending it to Westwood so it won't be too short anymore.
Which.station stop for universal studio
It sounds like 1000 series train in Washington Metro
Because the A650 and the 1000 series use the same traction motors by GE. So they both sound exactly the same.
The trains sound like the old Rohr cars of the DC metro
it looks way better than New York's subway stations.
They're a little under 100 years newer so they should
Sounds like the red line in Boston and Washington
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what kind of bud cars are those?
The train comes 8:00🕗 is lives at 8:09
Now we have the purple line(wilshire)
Sounds like a r110b but a little different
I know the metro B red line from North Hollywood to downtown Los Angeles
Subways are very nifty
I am surprised LA has a subway, although if you play GTA there is one on there
Yes GTA 5 is based on the the city of Los Angeles
Here I take my little girl on her first LA Subway ride! -> th-cam.com/video/bmqDCIfhxUU/w-d-xo.html
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What?? LA has subway? Live in LA and never knew there is a subway.
Thanks for sharing, do you know how much it cost to leave my car at union station if I want to take the red line to hollywood? or do you think is better if I go to a public parking in LA?
+MAOG76 O It looks like parking at Union Station is $12-$14 for 24 hours but space is limited, there are other lots nearby for much less. Doing a search on parkopedia.com brings up a lot of results. When I was in Los Angeles I rode Amtrak in from the Midwest so I didn't have a car.
+Bobby Harvey Thanks a lot...really appreciated
People think that the only way to get around in LA is by car. And yet LA has one of the LARGEST public transit networks in the nation, with its subway system having the highest ridership per mile of any US subway.
This is the effect of car-loving politicians. I bet they’re just mad that 74% of their county approved a tax plan to fund Metro expansion
Really cool but the metro cars look like antiques.
Me neither
train motors sound like Washington dc metro rohr 1000s
Kelly Jermaine Brown The Rohr 1000s were mostly Breda rehabbed. So they have the same propulsion system and traction motor.
So much cleaner and prettier than NYC subway, but not as large, unfortunately!
This train come from speed train crash
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Metro Red Line Subway