snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Mar 12, 2010 10:42:43 GMT -8
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Post by metrocenter on Mar 12, 2010 16:48:44 GMT -8
Finally. It's been a long wait. This will be the third incarnation of Angels Flight: |
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Post by Justin Walker on Mar 13, 2010 20:14:32 GMT -8
NEWSFLASH: Angels Flight will reopen on Monday (March 15)! Check out the official press release! (FYI, allegedly they had a soft opening today.) |
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Post by metrocenter on Mar 14, 2010 10:06:10 GMT -8
la.curbed.com confirms the early opening here. |
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Post by bluelineshawn on Mar 14, 2010 12:39:48 GMT -8
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Post by LAofAnaheim on Mar 14, 2010 12:54:48 GMT -8
I just took a ride...and you can already feel the convenience of going between Broadway/Hill street and Bunker Hill. This is very good....very very good! Tomorrow shall be fun once the office workers start using it. Hopefully this revitalizes the Grand Central Market which has seen scary drops of occupancy since the closing (look at the Broadway side of the Grand Central Market).
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Mar 14, 2010 21:39:41 GMT -8
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Post by metrocenter on Mar 15, 2010 8:16:18 GMT -8
I couldn't make it this morning.  Anyway, Angels Flight opened officially this morning on a beautiful clear day. All the local stations covered the event this morning, including ABC News. |
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Post by masonite on Mar 15, 2010 14:00:19 GMT -8
Anyone know how much Angel's Flight needs each year in operating subsidies from its foundation? I can't imagine that 25 cent fare pays for everything, but then again I have no idea how much it really costs to operate that thing. Just curious.
I rode it quite a bit in the late 90s when I worked at 2 California Plaza and would eat at Grand Central Market. Always reminds me of Valparaiso, Chile, where I spent some time a few years ago. They have all sorts of different funiculars there (something like 20-30 go up the hillsides), but they tend to have a feel more like elevators than Angel's Flight.
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Post by Dan Wentzel on Mar 15, 2010 15:43:04 GMT -8
On the current season of The Amazing Race the teams traveled to Valparaiso and rode the funiculars on their way to their next route marker. (This season started out with teams having to navigate from Downtown L.A. to LAX via public transit.)
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Post by nabinut on Mar 16, 2010 19:28:58 GMT -8
This is great news. I'm visiting the area next month and can't wait to ride these ;D
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Post by masonite on Mar 17, 2010 21:14:26 GMT -8
On the current season of The Amazing Race the teams traveled to Valparaiso and rode the funiculars on their way to their next route marker. (This season started out with teams having to navigate from Downtown L.A. to LAX via public transit.) Yes, I saw that. Another tidbit about Chile. Santiago has the best subway system I have ever been on and I have been on quite a few. It is modern, stylish, clean, and efficient having been built mostly in the 70's and 80's I believe, but it really covers the city like an older system. Also, the trains really haul ass. They give you a jolt going out of a station and they don't ease into an arriving station. This is unlike our subway as there is nothing more painful than how slowly our trains ease into a terminal station. Overall, the Santiago subway system is really an icon for South America's most prosperous country. On the LA portion of the Amazing Race, I was a little miffed at how the show basically made it seem like using public transportation in LA was a joke or impossible. However, our City of Angels did have the last laugh as some of them used the Flyaway and others used the Blue/Green Line combo proving that we had multiple ways of getting from Downtown to LAX. The aerial shots of the Blue Line were especially impressive. Los Angeles came out looking pretty good. |
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Post by tonyw79sfv on Jun 10, 2011 9:17:50 GMT -8
This has been reported all over the mainstream local media; Angels Flight has shutdown after a CPUC inspection revealed deteriorating wheel flange.
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Post by James Fujita on Jun 11, 2011 16:41:20 GMT -8
Who operates Angels Flight? If it takes a CPUC warning to get them to do maintenance, something has gone wrong somewhere.
Maintenance should be priority job #1, especially as they already have a giant black eye from that accident. If they have to raise fares to pay for maintenance, they should do it. Or find somebody, a nonprofit, a government agency or a private organization, to take over for them.
But maintenance of a century old, valuable, historic and unique transit link in the heart of downtown should be obvious.
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Post by LAofAnaheim on Jun 11, 2011 23:56:14 GMT -8
Who operates Angels Flight? If it takes a CPUC warning to get them to do maintenance, something has gone wrong somewhere. Maintenance should be priority job #1, especially as they already have a giant black eye from that accident. If they have to raise fares to pay for maintenance, they should do it. Or find somebody, a nonprofit, a government agency or a private organization, to take over for them. But maintenance of a century old, valuable, historic and unique transit link in the heart of downtown should be obvious. A non-profit agency runs Angels Flight: angelsflight.com/There were discussions previous that Jan Perry was trying to get Metro involved but the non-profit wanted to continue to run Angels Flight. But, currently, no government agency is involved in the operations. |
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Post by James Fujita on Jun 12, 2011 15:02:52 GMT -8
Jan Perry had the answer, it seems to me. Sort of like Bud Selig's solution for the Dodgers.
It wouldn't necessarily have to be Metro, mind you, but "if you can't take better care of your toys..."
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Post by bluelineshawn on Jun 12, 2011 18:19:35 GMT -8
IIRC when he was having trouble reopening it, Metro publicly volunteered to take it over (maybe at a news conference with Perry) and were rebuffed.
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Post by dane on Jul 5, 2011 15:35:22 GMT -8
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Post by bzcat on Aug 1, 2011 15:27:50 GMT -8
I took the wife to the Downtown Grand concert last Saturday night at Cal Plaza. We got off the subway at Pershing Square and took Angels Flight up to the top of Bunker Hill. It was our first time riding Angels Flight... not bad for 25 cent fare  |
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Post by thanks4goingmetro on Aug 2, 2011 18:55:58 GMT -8
I took the wife to the Downtown Grand concert last Saturday night at Cal Plaza. We got off the subway at Pershing Square and took Angels Flight up to the top of Bunker Hill. It was our first time riding Angels Flight... not bad for 25 cent fare I do this all the time to go to MOCA! Did the same at the Grand Ave Concert night-- I like the sound of "Now arriving at Pershing Square Station transfer point to the Angels Flight to Bunker Hill" hehe  |
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Post by exporider on Aug 31, 2017 17:02:11 GMT -8
Angels Flight is open as of today, hurray! However, be forewarned regarding the fare if you use a Tap card. The fare is advertised as $1.00, $0.50 with a Tap valid pass. Most news outlets are advertising "50 cents with a Tap card", which isn't the same thing! Don't say I didn't warn you!
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Post by tramfan on Sept 6, 2017 12:56:47 GMT -8
And it closed again...
Now due to a cracked nylon roller. You would imagine that they would use metal or an alloyed as a more robust material to prevent wear and cracking. When this train was build in the early 19 hundreds nylon wheels were not even invented.
Supposedly it will open again tomorrow.
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