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[KevinKorell]

KABC-TV, ABC-7 in Los Angeles, CA, 5/22/23:

 

 

    Metro's new Regional Connector will allow riders to travel across LA County on 1 train     

 

 

Imagine being able to travel from one side of Southern California to the other on Metro trains without ever having to leave your seat.

 

Even more

[KevinKorell]

L.A. Metro page on the upcoming changes

 

 

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=eqGH4NP6GYY

[KevinKorell]

Ventura County Star,  Camarillo, CA, 6/8/23:

 

 

   What the Regional Connector will bring us    

 

What, if anything, will the Regional Connector bring us?

 

Or has it come too late?

Article

[CNJRoss]

Los Angeles (CA) Times, 6/16/23

 

Metro’s new downtown tracks can speed up your travel. Here’s what to know

 

Anyone who rides Metro regularly is used to waiting for a train — just not for three years.

 

That’s how much extra time it’s taken Metro to finish the 1.9-mile Regional Connector, which opens Friday with three new stations to downtown Los Angeles. The main significance of the new line isn’t the extra stations, however; it’s the two major holes in the Metro system that the Regional Connector’s tracks plug.

 

Think of the connector as the glue between five sets of tracks that reach downtown L.A. It will take travelers starting to the north and northeast of downtown directly to points as far south as Long Beach, and travelers as far west as Santa Monica to stations as far east as East L.A.

 

 

Continue here.  

[KevinKorell]

mynewsla.com  6/17/23:

 

 

  Los Angeles Celebrates Grand Opening of Long-Awaited Metro Regional Connector    

 

 

Metro is offering free rides through 3 a.m. Monday on all Metro buses, trains, Metro Bike and Metro Micro as the agency continues the celebration of the roughly $1.8 billion Regional Connector project.

 

Story

[KevinKorell]

Los Angeles, CA Times,  6/17/23:

 

 

 For L.A.’s newest underground art experience, head down to the Metro Regional Connector    

 

 

The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority debuted its Regional Connector Transit Project yesterday, a $1.8 billion undertaking that’s been more than a decade in the making. It includes three new downtown L.A. subway stations — the Grand Ave. Arts/Bunker Hill, Historic Broadway and Little Tokyo/Arts District stops — and each are filled with ambitious new works of art.

 

Full story

[KevinKorell]

LAist, 6/16/23:

 

 

    LA Metro’s New Regional Connecter: A Big Step Forward For Public Transit    

 

 

L.A. Metro’s new downtown regional connector is a piddly 1.9 miles of new underground track, but the pomp and circumstance surrounding its opening Friday was befitting the launch of the transcontinental railroad. 

 

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[KevinKorell]

KABC-TV, ABC-7 in Los Angeles, CA, 6/16/23:

 

 

     LA celebrates grand opening of long-awaited Metro Regional Connector with free rides all weekend  

 

 

The downtown Los Angeles train system got a major facelift Friday with the opening of Metro's Regional Connector, and the transportation agency is offering free rides all weekend to celebrate.

 

This is where the story is.

[KevinKorell]

Railway Gazette, 6/19/23:

 

 

   Regional Connector reshapes Los Angeles light rail network  

 

 

The Los Angeles urban rail network has been extensively reshaped with the opening of the 3 km light rail Regional Connector between Union Station and 7th Street/Metro Center.

 

 

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