The Rail-to-Rail Route is an under-construction
rail-trail
A rail trail is a shared-use path on railway right of way. Rail trails are typically constructed after a railway has been abandoned and the track has been removed, but may also share the right of way with active railways, light rail, or streetcar ...
bike path and pedestrian trail in
Los Angeles County, California.
The route runs through the city of
Inglewood, the city of Los Angeles neighborhoods of
Hyde Park,
Chesterfield Square,
Harvard Park,
Vermont-Slauson,
South Park and
Central-Alameda, and unincorporated
Florence-Firestone.
The route will connect
Fairview Heights,
Slauson station, and
Slauson station.
The K Line and A Line are
light-rail routes; the J Line is a
rapid-transit bus corridor.
The path uses the
Harbor Subdivision
The Harbor Subdivision is a historic single-track main line of the BNSF Railway which stretches between rail yards near downtown Los Angeles and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach across southwestern Los Angeles County. It was the primary l ...
freight-train right-of-way
Right of way is the legal right, established by grant from a landowner or long usage (i.e. by prescription), to pass along a specific route through property belonging to another.
A similar ''right of access'' also exists on land held by a gov ...
along
Slauson Avenue
Slauson Avenue is a major east–west thoroughfare traversing the central part of Los Angeles County, California. It was named for the land developer and Los Angeles Board of Education member J. S. Slauson. It passes through Culver City, L ...
and
Hyde Park Boulevard.
The planned "
active transportation corridor" will be a -wide
linear park
A linear park is a type of park that is significantly longer than it is wide. These linear parks are strips of public land running along canals, rivers, streams, defensive walls, electrical lines, or highways and shorelines. Examples of linear p ...
.
The budget for the project is $140 million.
Projected completion is 2024.
A potential future extension, called the Rail-to-River Route, would run through some combination of
Gateway Cities
The Gateway Cities Region, or Southeast Los Angeles County (also shortened to Southeast Los Angeles and Southeast LA) is an urbanized region located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, between the City of Los Angeles proper, Orange ...
Huntington Park
Huntington Park is a city in the Gateway Cities district of southeastern Los Angeles County, California.
As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 58,114, of whom 97% are Hispanic/Latino and about half were born outside th ...
,
Vernon,
Maywood and
Bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator. The strike may be made by an inte ...
to reach the
Los Angeles River
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bike trails.
See also
*
Rail with trail
*
List of Los Angeles bike paths
This is a list of bike paths in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Paths
* 98th Street bicycle path – runs from Avalon Boulevard to Clovis Avenue along 98th Street in the South Los Angeles area. Bike Path ID: 1. Mileage: 0.52.
...
References
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External links
metro.net Rail-to-Rail Active Transportation CorridorRail-to-River (planning stage)
Rail trails in California
Bike paths in Los Angeles
South Los Angeles