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Post by Elson on May 24, 2005 22:15:38 GMT -8
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Post by JamesFujita on May 26, 2005 14:50:02 GMT -8
looking at that map, I am so glad they decided to abandon the detour around Fairfax. although I wouldn't mind a Red Line extension to County Hospital and beyond.
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Post by crzwdjk on May 29, 2005 21:40:48 GMT -8
Depending on how the Eastside Gold Line fares, perhaps they will consider an extension of the Red Line eastward. The current Gold Line is basically the middle alignment on that map. This leaves the northern and southern alignments. Both could be served by the Red Line. The northern alignment it just the El Monte Busway, and that can fairly easily fit a Red Line extension without too much tunneling, and even still leave room for the busway. The southern extension would likely include the current yard tracks, a station somewhere in or near the yard, and either a tunnel or a bridge over the LA River and the many freeways of the area to a tunnel alignment under Whittier Blvd.
The western part of the map was devised under the now-incorrect assumption that the gas-containing areas would have to be avoided completely, though that doesn't seem to be the plan anymore. Currently, the most likely westward extension is straight down Wilshire.
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Post by Elson on May 30, 2005 0:20:54 GMT -8
Yes, I would like a southeast Red Line extension...
It would invariably have to go past the yard. Heck, our taxes paid for that portal, and that yard, might as well put it to good use.
If the Gold Line Eastside extension parallels the 10 and 60 Freeway corridors, then this Red Line extension would have to parallel the 5 corridor.
This is not a new concept. In the early RTD/LACTC vision of the Metro Rail system, pre-1991, the heavy rail line was envisioned to eventually heard southeast along the 5 Freeway corridor and end at Norwalk (presumably linking with the Green Line; Metrolink was not yet planned then).
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Post by jejozwik on Sept 18, 2008 8:41:04 GMT -8
[/img][/quote] yo, what happened to your link? i want to see some maps
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