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Re: LA Rail Revival

In article <VA.000000c0.009b6fdc@default>,
  mike@gtnorthern.demon.co.uk wrote:
> > Additionally, the Green Line (light rail) was named so because it
runs
> > along a freeway, and the dominant color of freeway signage is green.
>
> Would the Green Line have been near complete in early 1994? ISTR a LRT
> line being built along the central reservation of an (also quite new)
> freeway during my visit not long after the earthquake.
>

Yes, that was the Green Line. It isn't really a light rail line,
tho, because it is completely grade-separated. Like the Docklands
line in London, it is modeled on the Vancouver Skytrain, except
that the Green Line has a pathetic ridership...only 23,000 boardings
a day.

Tom Wetzel


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