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D Line (Los Angeles Metro)
The D Line (formerly the Red Line from 1993–2006 and the Purple Line from 2006–2020) is a currently out-of-service fully underground rapid transit line in Los Angeles, California, running for between Koreatown and Downtown Los Angeles. It is one of six lines on the Metro Rail system, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The D Line is one of the city's two fully underground lines (along with the B Line). The two lines share tracks between Koreatown and Downtown Los Angeles. , the combined B and D lines averaged 133,413 boardings per weekday. In 2020, Metro renamed all of its lines using letters and colors, with the Purple Line becoming the D Line (retaining the purple color in its service bullet) and the Red Line becoming the B Line. Construction is underway for a major extension of the line to the Mid-Wilshire district, Beverly Hills, Century City, and Westwood, which will add 7 stations and 9 miles of track to the line. The exten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Local
The Los Angeles Metro Bus is the transit bus service in Los Angeles County, California, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). Metro Bus operates in the Los Angeles Basin, the San Fernando Valley, and the western San Gabriel Valley, serving a population of approximately 10 million people. Metro Bus provides the main local bus service in the Los Angeles, city of Los Angeles, and regional services across its service area. Metro Bus services connect with List of Southern California transit agencies#Los Angeles County Transit Agencies, multiple other operators in the region, providing connections at an extensive network of transit centers, many of which are located at Los Angeles Metro Rail, Metro Rail stations and regional destinations. , there are 116 Local, Rapid, Limited, and Express routes in the system, excluding Los Angeles Metro Busway, Metro Busway routes. The Los Angeles Metro bus fleet, Metro Bus fleet is the third-largest in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Union Station
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 sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilshire/Western Station
Wilshire/Western station is an underground rapid transit (known locally as a subway) station on the D Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located under Wilshire Boulevard at Western Avenue, after which the station is named, in the Mid-Wilshire and Koreatown districts of Los Angeles. It is the current western terminus of the D Line. Prior plans called for the D Line to extend to Fairfax Avenue, then turn north into the San Fernando Valley but due to political disagreements, the line currently terminates here and the B Line travels to the Valley via Vermont Avenue. Metro is now currently constructing the D Line Extension to extend the D Line west from this station to Westwood/VA Hospital station in Westwood, near UCLA. The two artwork installations at Wilshire/Western are called "People Coming", and the other "People Going". They are large murals at each end of the station. The artist responsible is Richard Wyatt, a Lynwood native. The courtyard features a ... [...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] |
