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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 21 January 2018 - 11:09 AM

LACMTA Media Advisory:

 

 

Work to Begin to Connect Future Crenshaw/LAX Line to Green Line; Five Green Line Stations Will Close Temporarily Beginning January 26 with Buses Replacing Trains

 

Friday January 19, 2018

 

Media Advisory Five Green Line stations will close to allow Green Line tracks to be connected to the future Crenshaw/LAX line beginning January 26 and continuing through Saturday, April 7.

 

What:

Five Green Line stations will close to allow Green Line tracks to be connected to the future Crenshaw/LAX line beginning January 26 and continuing through Saturday, April 7. Free Metro bus service will replace rail service at Aviation/LAX, Mariposa, El Segundo, Douglas and Redondo Beach stations. Work will begin at 9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 26, and will continue 24/7 until 3 a.m. on Saturday, April 7.

 

When:

Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, at 10 a.m.

 

Where:

Green Line Aviation/LAX Station platform level
11500 Aviation Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90045

 

Who:

Metro Board Member and L.A. City Council Member Mike Bonin
Metro Board Director Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker
Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington

 

Visuals:

Aerial Aviation/LAX Station, Metro Board Members and Metro officials at the press conference, passengers getting in/out of trains.

 

Parking:

Parking will be available for news media vehicles inside Aviation/LAX Station near the entrance. Look for signs.

 

 

 

Cross posted:  LACMTA Crenshaw/LAX Line construction advances



#2 KevinKorell

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Posted 21 January 2018 - 12:20 PM

One  may well ask, "Didn't they rough in the connection between the Green Line and the Crenshaw/LAX Line when the Green Line was built?"

 

The answer is Yes and No.   When the Green Line was built (opened summer of 1995), there was no Crenshaw Line proposed. There was however the foresight that perhaps someday a spur off the Green Line would bring passengers closer to the airport than the current setup with the Aviation/LAX station and a parking lot bus.  So they put in a connection with the Green Line to & from the east, so that presumably a Green Line train could run from Norwalk to the airport over this connection just west of the Aviation/LAX station.  But it was not a complete connection. What they did not know was that the future Crenshaw Line would not only serve the Airport station, but interline with the Green Line on its existing route to Redondo Beach (and proposed to go beyond further into the South Cities region).  That meant that another connection now has to be constructed to allow this movement.

 

It is surprising that this will cause a 2-1/2 month closure.  I would figure they would be able to built the connection track with the exception of the track and switches needed to tie the two lines together.  We've seen similar projects done with perhaps one or two weekends of closures required.



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