Expo Line Opening Saturday, April 28, 2012

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Published on Saturday, 07 April 2012 22:37

Written by Dianne Lawrence

Phase I of the Expo Line will officially open on Saturday, April 28, 2012, as the newest addition to LA’s expanding rail network.

The line will initially run 7.6 miles from downtown 7th/Metro to La Cienega/Jefferson. This opening also includes the murals done at the Crenshaw stop, by TNN’s featured artist Willie Middlebrook.You can see his work at our website under”Art”.

This summer, the Culver City stop will extend the line a mile further. Including the Culver City stop, the Expo Line Phase I will share two stations with the Blue Line downtown for a total of 12 Expo Line stops.

MTA will operate the Expo Line seven days a week starting at about 5am and ending at about 12:30am, and is expected to have 27,000 daily boardings.

Phase II of the Expo Line, whose construction began last September and is scheduled to be completed by 2015, will extend from Culver City 6.6 miles out to Santa Monica ending at 4th/Colorado. Together, Expo Phase I and II will be the first mass transit line to connect Downtown Los Angeles to the Santa Monica in half a century.

In a little over one year, Los Angeles will open three major transportation projects—the Expo Phase I Line, the Orange Line expansion, and the I-405 expansion.  Los Angeles will also break ground on three more major projects—the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor, the Purple Line Subway extension, and the Regional Connector. These projects are expected to support over 100,000 jobs.