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B Line (Los Angeles Metro)
The B Line (formerly the Red Line from 1993–2020) is a fully underground rapid transit line operating in Los Angeles, running between North Hollywood, Los Angeles, North Hollywood and Los Angeles Union Station, Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles. It is one of six lines in the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Built in four stages between 1986 and 2000, the line cost $4.5 billion. The B Line is one of the city's two fully-underground subway lines (along with the D Line (Los Angeles Metro), D Line). The two lines share tracks through Koreatown, Los Angeles, Koreatown and Downtown Los Angeles. , the combined B and D lines averaged 66,642 boardings per weekday. In 2020, Metro renamed all of its lines using letters and colors, with the Red Line becoming the B Line (retaining the red color in its service bullet) and the Purple Line becoming the D Line. Service description Route The B Line is a rapid tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA), branded as Metro, is the county agency that plans, operates, and coordinates funding for most of the Transportation in Los Angeles, public transportation system in Los Angeles County, California, the most populated county in the United States. The agency directly operates a large Public transport, transit system that includes Public transport bus service, bus, light rail, Rapid transit, heavy rail (subway), and bus rapid transit services. Metro also provides funding for transit it does not operate, including Metrolink (California), Metrolink commuter rail, List of Southern California transit agencies, municipal bus operators and paratransit services. The agency also provides funding and directs planning for railroad and highway projects within Los Angeles County. In , the Metro system had a total ridership of , and had a ridership of per weekday as of . It is the largest transit agency by ridership in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vermont Avenue
Vermont Avenue is one of the longest running north–south streets in City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County, California. With a length of , is the third longest of the north–south thoroughfares in the region. For most of its length between its southern end in San Pedro and south of Downtown Los Angeles, it runs parallel to the west of the Harbor Freeway (I-110). Route description Vermont Avenue's southern point is just north of San Pedro at a five-point intersection with Anaheim Street, Gaffey Street and Palos Verdes Drive. After a short distance, Normandie Avenue branches off due north while Vermont turns northeast towards its intersection with Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Afterwards, it travels roughly in a straight line north for , parallel to the Harbor Freeway (I-110) to the east. North of PCH, it passes through the unincorporated area of West Carson before crossing the San Diego Freeway (I-405). Between a point south of the intersection with Artesia Boul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Electric
The Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned Public transport, mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s. Organized around the city centers of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, it connected cities in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, Orange County, California, Orange County, San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino County and Riverside County, California, Riverside County. The system shared dual gauge track with the Narrow-gauge railway, narrow-gauge Los Angeles Railway, "Yellow Car," or "LARy" system on Main Street (Los Angeles), Main Street in downtown Los Angeles (directly in front of the 6th and Main terminal), on 4th Street, and along Hawthorne Boulevard (Los Angeles County), Hawthorne Boulevard south of downtown Los Angeles toward the cities of Hawthorne, Gardena, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Station (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Union Station is the main railroad station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest passenger rail terminal in the Western United States. It opened in May 1939 as the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, replacing La Grande Station, Central Station, and Salt Lake Station. Approved in a controversial ballot measure in 1926 and built in the 1930s, it served to consolidate rail services from the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, and Union Pacific railroads into one terminal station. Conceived on a grand scale, Union Station became known as the "Last of the Great Railway Stations" built in the United States. The structure combines Art Deco, Mission Revival, and Streamline Moderne style. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Today, the station is a major transportation hub for Southern California, serving almost 110,000 passengers a day. It is by far the busiest railroad station in the Western United States; it is Amtrak's fifth-busiest s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civic Center, Los Angeles
The Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, is the administrative core of the Los Angeles, California, City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, and a complex of city, county, U.S. state, state, and Federal government of the United States, federal government offices, buildings, and courthouses. It is located on the site of the former Central Business District, Los Angeles (1880–1899), business district of the city during the 1880s and 1890s, since mostly-demolished. Location The Civic Center is located in the northern part of Downtown Los Angeles, bordering Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California, Bunker Hill, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Los Angeles, California, Chinatown, and the Historic Core, Los Angeles, California, Historic Core of the old Downtown. Depending on various district definitions, either the Civic Center or Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California, Bunker Hill also contains the Los Angeles Music Cente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historic Core, Los Angeles
The Historic Core is a district within Downtown Los Angeles that includes the world's largest concentration of movie palaces, former large department stores, and office towers, all built chiefly between 1907 and 1931. Within it lie the Broadway Theater District and the Spring Street historic financial district, and in its west it overlaps with the Jewelry District and in its east with Skid Row. The Historic Core falls into two business improvement districts, Historic Core (south of 4th St.) and Downtown LA (from 2nd to 4th Street). The total Historic Core is thus composed of: * Los Angeles Street from 2nd to 6th streets, * Spring Street and Main Street from 2nd to 7th streets, * Broadway from 2nd to 9th streets, * Hill Street from 2nd to 10th streets History The Historic Core was the central business district of the city from the first decade of the 1900s through the 1950s. Before 1900 the business center was further north, between the Plaza and about Third Street. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pershing Square (Los Angeles)
Pershing Square is a small public park in Downtown Los Angeles, California, one square block in size, bounded by 5th Street to the north, 6th Street (Los Angeles), 6th to the south, Hill Street (Los Angeles), Hill to the east, and Olive Street, Olive to the west. Originally dedicated in 1866 by Mayor Cristóbal Aguilar as La Plaza Abaja, the square has had numerous names over the years until it was finally dedicated in honor of General John J. Pershing in 1918. History 19th century In the 1850s, the location was used as a camp by settlers from outside the Pueblo de Los Angeles, which lay to the northeast around the La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles, Our Lady Queen of the Angels' church, the Los Angeles Plaza, and present-day Olvera Street. Surveyors drew the site as 10 individual plots of land, but in practicality it was a single parcel. A waterway called Arroyo de Los Reyes ran through what is now the square.Canals distributing water from the Zanja Madre we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial District, Los Angeles
The Financial District (Financial Core) is the central business district of Los Angeles. It is bounded by the Harbor Freeway to the west, First Street to the north, Main and Hill Streets to the east, and Olympic Boulevard and 9th Street to the south. It is south of the Bunker Hill district, west of the Historic Core, north of South Park and east of the Harbor Freeway and Central City West. Like Bunker Hill, the Financial District is home to corporate office skyscrapers, hotels and related services as well as banks, law firms, and real estate companies. However, unlike Bunker Hill which was razed and now consists of buildings constructed since the 1960s, it also contains large buildings from the early 20th century, particularly along Seventh Street, once the city's upscale shopping street; the area also includes the 7th and Flower area at the center of the regional Metro rail system, restaurants, bars, and two urban malls. History What is now the Financial District was origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Street/Metro Center Station
7th Street/Metro Center station is an underground light rail and rapid transit station on the A Line (Los Angeles Metro), A, B Line (Los Angeles Metro), B, D Line (Los Angeles Metro), D, and E Line (Los Angeles Metro), E lines of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station also has street level stops for the J Line (Los Angeles Metro), J Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. The station is located under 7th Street (Los Angeles), 7th Street, after which the station is named, at its intersections with Figueroa Street, Figueroa, Flower Street, Flower and Hope Streets. It is officially named 7th Street/Metro Center/Julian Dixon station after former U.S. Rep. Julian Dixon, who had a pivotal role in obtaining the federal funding that enabled construction of the Metro Rail system. History 7th Street/Metro Center was constructed by the Southern California Rapid Transit District, which later became part of today's LA Metro, as part of the first ''minimum operating segment'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light Rail
Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit that uses rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from heavy rapid transit. The term was coined in 1972 in the United States as an English equivalent for the German word ''Stadtbahn'', meaning "city railway". From: 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference Different definitions exist in some countries, but in the United States, light rail operates primarily along exclusive Right_of_way#Rail_right_of_way, rights-of-way and uses either individual tramcars or multiple units coupled together, with a lower capacity and speed than a long heavy rail passenger train or rapid transit system. Narrowly defined, light rail transit uses rolling stock that is similar to that of a traditional tram, while operating at a higher capacity and speed, often on an exclusive right-of-way. In broader usage, light ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E Line (Los Angeles Metro)
The E Line (formerly the Expo Line from 2012–2019) is a light rail line in Los Angeles County, California. It is one of the six lines of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). The E Line runs east-west and serves 29 stations between East Los Angeles and Santa Monica, interlining and sharing five stations with the A Line in Downtown Los Angeles. The line operates for 19 hours per day with headways of up to 8 minutes during peak hours. It is the second-busiest light rail line in the system, carrying more than 12 million total passengers in 2023. The majority of the E Line’s western section from Downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica follows the original right of way of the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad steam railroad, built in 1875. Regular train service ended in 1988, and Metro acquired the right of way in the 1990s. Formal studies to convert the corridor into light rail began in 2000, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Line (Los Angeles Metro)
The A Line (formerly and colloquially known as the Blue Line) is a light rail line in Los Angeles County, California. It is one of the six lines of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). The A Line serves 44 stations and runs east-west between Azusa and Pasadena, then north-south between Pasadena and Long Beach, interlining and sharing five stations with the E Line in Downtown Los Angeles. It operates for approximately 19 hours per day with headways of up to 8 minutes during peak hours. It runs for , making it the world's longest light rail line since 2023. The A Line is the oldest and busiest light rail line in the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, carrying over 15 million passengers in 2023, with an average of 69,216 weekday riders in May 2024. Its initial segment from Downtown Los Angeles to Long Beach opened in 1990, utilizing much of the original right of way of the former Pacific Electric L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
