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Re: LA Rail Revival

So is the rolling stock on the red, blue and green lines interchangeable?

Cheers
John Wayman

<tomwetzel@my-deja.com> wrote in message 7k3q80$3fn$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:7k3q80$3fn$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> 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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