Modern Light Rail Connecting Los Angeles and Culver City

The Exposition Light Rail line will share common track and two stations (7th St./Metro Center and Pico) with the Metro Blue Line as it leaves downtown Los Angeles.

The Exposition Light Rail line will be approximately 9 miles in length. It parallels the heavily congested I-10 Freeway, and is scheduled to open in June 2010.

Approximately eight new stations will be constructed between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City, with an estimated travel time of 27 minutes.

The estimated cost of the project to Culver City is $640 million. A future second phase would extend the Exposition line to the City of Santa Monica.

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i want more info on the floating stations...

I like the second station can we get a clearer look at it. I think it's the best one yet!!!!

Does anyone know when construction on this is supposed to begin?

^^ According to the MTA groundbreaking is in 2006 no specific date. Completion for the project is in 2010 (Venice/Washington). Well we know it's going to start sometime between today and Dec. 31, woohoo!!!!

Glad to hear that you're happy about it Ferney. Oh btw, how is the "vacation" going?

I actually look forward to The Expo Line, I really can't explain it. As far as my vacation I'm having a blast. It's just too bad we don't have a pool like everyone else here.... :cry:.

preliminary work has already started on Expo and actual digging will start before december, i think. ill double check and update if necessary.

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They're working on re-painting the Blue Line fleet, they're going to be very silverish and stand out from the rest of the fleet.

The 3 cars they have painted were the 3 cars sporting the old Red Car livery. As far as I know those are the only ones that have been done so far.

Hey I just thought about this, Since both Expo & Blue will share Stations on Flower and 7th St (Underground Station). Are they going to change the BlueLine Trains to match Gold, Expo fleets???? The reason I ask is because the Blue Line are boxy and not very attractive. Say they just had a fresh coat of paint instead of that plain faded Orange and black strip. They would definite make a difference!!!!!

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Sorry for the confusion on top^^

Getting back to Blue Line, so there going to paint them silver. I wish there was a pix so we can check it out. Also are they going to to have wraparound advertising on the Blue Line, I hope so?

Here's some links to pics of the new paint job for the blue line cars.

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^^ Well I don't know about the dull gray color. I like the way the Dash buses were painted. It looks clean, fresh and most importantly inviting. So are all Rail lines getting the same dull gray paint job. A brighter silver color would of made a world of difference......

Although I agree it is kinda dull, it works along with Metro's new simplistic approach to coloring in their advertisements and on the livery.

That, and anything is better than white with a yellow stripe.

I think it's better to have them paint the trains according to the line color they serve. It's looks much more like a serious, functional rapid transit system like this than the generic white with orange stripe.
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i really like the new colors, but it seams everyone and there mother are driving silver cars. why not silver trains

I think it's better to have them paint the trains according to the line color they serve. It's looks much more like a serious, functional rapid transit system like this than the generic white with orange stripe.
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^^ I actually read somewhere that all lines are getting the same coat of paint. Something to do with it being more easier to switch service line. Can someone confirm if this is in fact correct???

I think it's better to have them paint the trains according to the line color they serve. It's looks much more like a serious, functional rapid transit system like this than the generic white with orange stripe.
http://images.nycsubway.org//i41000/img_41241.jpg

I've never heard of such a thing. That means that a city like NYC with a huge system would have to paint every car on every line that same unique color and these cars couldn't even be interchangeable to other lines (in case of breakdowns and such)since they already have a permanent color. Sounds artistic but not practical or functional.

exactly. these trains arent exclusinve to each line and when the Downtown Connector gets built, forget it. there is no way.

. . .but. . .but. . .IT WOULD BE SOO COOOL THOUGH!!! :D

Maybe they could have a light or something on the lead car that changes color depending on which line it's serving? :)

Maybe they could have a light or something on the lead car that changes color depending on which line it's serving? :)
I was thinking that the background colour on the destination board should match the line that the LRV was travelling on i.e. blue for the blue line, green for the green line and gold for the gold line.

The thing about light rail or really any rail in Los Angeles is that it is quiet. For this reason, that it could surprise some people when approaching an intersection, whatever the color, it should be bright and very noticeable.