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“The 2028 Games are an opportunity to showcase the best Los Angeles and the United States have to offer our guests from around the world,” said Fernando Dutra, Metro Board Chair and City of Whittier Council Member.” LA Metro’s progress reflects its commitment to a more
At the Blue Line groundbreaking in 1985, LA County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn declared, “Let’s build, build, build to the year 2000.” During the 1990s, the Red and Green lines also opened. Over the past four decades, four light rail and two heavy rail lines, now designated by letters, have opened to connect much of the
T he 2025 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers have a unique link to the transportation world. In early 1900s, the baseball team based in Brooklyn went through a few names before landing on the Brooklyn Dodgers, shortened from the nickname “trolley dodgers” — a designation given to pedestrians who dodged streetcars in the New York metropolis. The team moved to Los Angeles after the 1957 season. The Dodger Stadium Express, Metro’s free shuttle service to Dodger Stadium for ticketholders, saw record single-game ridership out of Union Station during the 2025 World Series, twice surpassing last year’s record of 6,601 boardings. Total Dodger Stadium Express ridership for the series, which includes both Union Station and South Bay service for all three home games, reached 22,525 total passenger trips. connected and vibrant future and a legacy that will serve our communities long after the Olympic flame has been extinguished.” Metro has reached several connectivity milestones including: The opening of the Regional Connector downtown and the LAX/ Metro Transit Center Station; the A Line Foothill Extension to Pomona; and the K Line (Crenshaw/LAX Line) service. This year, phase 1 of the D Line (Purple) Subway Extension Project to Westwood is schedule to open. Target completion of Phases 2 and 3 is in 2027. The three-phase project adds nine miles of new subway service to Metro’s rail network, with seven new stations between Koreatown and Westwood. Metro is also enhancing freeway, bus and pedestrian mobility ahead of the Games to link venues and neighborhoods through a variety of transit options. “The improvements we’re making now are not just for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, they’re investments that ensure that the momentum we’ve built will continue long after the closing ceremonies,” said Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins upon marking 1,000 days until the Olympics in October 2025. Angelenos have supported transit development since the
vast Los Angeles County region. There are 112 stations and over 400 rail cars with more than 300 million boardings annually. Last September, Metro reached a milestone 1 million weekday riders. “The Metro Blue Line ranks right up there with my greatest accomplishments,” said Kenneth Hahn to the Signal Hill Tribune at the time. His daughter, LA County Supervisor and Metro Board Member Janice Hahn celebrated the opening of the Regional Connector in 2023 that created transfer-free rides between Long Beach and Azusa on the A Line, and from Santa Monica to East LA on the E Line. Since 2023, the A Line transfer- free ride has been extended east to Pomona. “For the first time since the Blue (A) Line opened in 1990, it will now offer a single-seat ride from Long Beach to Union Station,” she said. “The Regional Connector will mean that jobs and education opportunities, which used to require 2-3 transfers for residents in my district, will now be just one train ride away.” The development continues with Metro’s Twenty-Eight by ’28 initiative, a comprehensive plan to enhance the region’s transit infrastructure in time for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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