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Posted 14 October 2010 - 02:13 PM

LA-ist, 10/6/10:

Green Line Extension Could Give South Bay More Light Rail Miles



The Westside Subway may be the popular kid on the block, but let's not forget about possible plans to extend the Green Line deeper into the South Bay. Specifically, Metro is looking to extend the Green Line 4.6 miles from its terminating Redondo Beach station to the proposed Torrance Regional Transit Center.

It's interesting that the line, after Torrance, could go to either Long Beach or San Pedro, or both as the map leads one to believe. Link here.


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Posted 03 November 2010 - 09:23 PM

Opinion in Redondo Beach, CA Patch, 10/30/10:

Does Right-of-Way Make It the Right Way to Go?



The Chick Hearn Blue Line Station on Pico Boulevard is just a block away from Staples Center in downtown L.A. and if our nearest Green Line station wasn't a 20-30 minute drive from my Hollywood Riviera home I'd be taking the train to every game—despite my harrowing experience during the finals in June.

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Posted 01 April 2011 - 08:01 AM

Progressive Railroading, 3/31/11:

LACMTA to solicit public comments on South Bay Metro Green Line extension


The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) will hold three community meetings in April to solicit public comments on the environmental impact of the proposed South Bay Metro Green Line extension.

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Posted 14 November 2013 - 06:09 PM

KCET-TV, Channel 28 in Burbank, CA, 11/13/13:

One of Metro's highly anticipated metro rail projects is the South Bay Green Line Extension. The Green Line's current western terminus is Redondo Beach Station, located on the edge of Hawthorne and Redondo Beach's North Redondo Beach section. If all goes according to plan -- and there's little to believe that it won't -- the Green Line will be extended further southeast along the old Harbor Subdivision Transit Corridor right-of-way, into the small city of Lawndale, through northern portions of Redondo Beach, and finally on down to Torrance's planned Transit Center.


This is the article.

While this extension of light rail to growing residential, retail, and employment centers is surely welcome, this may not be called the Green Line. Operating schemes that have been published before show an operational change between the Green and Crenshaw Lines once the latter comes online. The existing Green Line would begin westbound at Norwalk as it does now, but it would turn north onto the new Crenshaw Line to stop closer to LAX International Airport. The new Crenshaw Line, going south, after stopping near LAX International Airport, would turn west onto the existing Green Line and take over the remaining existing stops. It therefore would be what is extended beyond the current Redondo Beach terminus to Torrance.


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Posted 28 January 2016 - 10:15 AM

 

 

Could a new light rail line connect Torrance with the NFL stadium in Inglewood?

 

A proposal to study the feasibility of building a light-rail line that would extend from Inglewood’s NFL stadium into the South Bay — and possibly end in Torrance — will be discussed today by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board.

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Posted 10 October 2017 - 02:06 AM

Curbed Los Angeles, 10/9/17:

 


 

Metro looking at options to push the Green Line deeper into the South Bay

 

 

For years, Metro’s had a plan to send the Green Line deeper into the South Bay, to a new Torrance transit center. Now fortified by the voter-approved Measure M sales tax increase for transportation projects, Metro has decided to crank up the heat on the project and consider some new route options, Urbanize LA says.

 

The 4.6-mile extension of the light rail line, which currently ends at the northern border of Redondo Beach, would allow riders to connect to LAX via the future automated people mover at 96th Street Station.

 

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As far as I know, what I said in the parent note of this thread above 4 years ago still holds.  It won't be the Green Line extended to Torrance, but rather an extension of the Crenshaw Line, since the Green Line would be terminating adjacent to LAX Airport.



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Posted 16 October 2017 - 12:47 AM

Daily Breeze, Torrance, CA, 10/15/17:

 


 

Could light rail through South Bay be built in time for 2028 Olympics? Stay tuned

 

Proponents of a long-dormant 4.6-mile light rail extension that would slice through the South Bay to Torrance are attempting to find the money and commitment to finish the project by 2028, when Southern California will host the Summer Olympics.

 

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Posted 16 October 2017 - 10:14 AM

This thread is the first time I have ever seen the term "South Bay" in connection with the Los Angeles area.  It is, however, a common moniker for the San Jose environs.  A bit confusing.  :huh:   Sloan



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Posted 18 October 2017 - 12:32 AM

This thread is the first time I have ever seen the term "South Bay" in connection with the Los Angeles area.  It is, however, a common moniker for the San Jose environs.  A bit confusing.  :huh:   Sloan

 
Sloan,

 

The difference is that the San Jose environs are in the South Bay Area (key word Area, with the bay of course being San Francisco Bay) while the reference to the area south of LAX Airport is simply South Bay, with the bay being Santa Monica Bay. Here is the Wikipedia version of what the L.A. South Bay is. By this definition, the existing Metro Green Line stations between El Segundo and Redondo Beach are within the South Bay already, and the Torrance extension will be as well.

 

That said, I think they also refer to this as the South Bay Extension to differentiate it from another discussed extension on the other end of the Metro Green Line, which currently dead ends in Norwalk adjacent to a freeway interchange (I-105/I-605).  The extension would take it east logically to the Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs station to make connections with Metrolink's Orange County Line and 91-Perris Valley Line.



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Posted 09 January 2018 - 11:18 AM

The Source LACMTA blog, 1/8/18:
 

Update on Green Line South Bay extension to Torrance

 

 

Planning work continues on a key Metro Rail project to extend the Green Line from its current terminus at Redondo Beach Station to a new transit center in Torrance.

 

I encourage everyone to peruse through the above Metro staff presentation, which dives deeper into the proposed routes. The project homepage is here.

 

Some of the project basics:

 

Continue here w/slide presentation.






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