Downtown LA / Metro Regional connector project updates Abandoned Monrovia -Glendora foothill tracks

Here in the video we take a deeper look into Downtown Los Angeles history , homeless crisis , transportation , and how it all started with the beginning of metro rail in the country of Los Angeles. The regional connector project connecting people to cities for the 2028 Olympics and recreating long abandon rail lines.

Regional connector project
The Metro Regional Connector Project extends from the Metro Gold Line Little Tokyo/Arts District Station to the 7th Street/Metro Center Station in downtown Los Angeles, allowing passengers to transfer to Blue, Expo, Red and Purple Lines, bypassing Union Station. The 1.9-mile alignment will serve Little Tokyo, the Arts District, Civic Center, The Historic Core, Broadway, Grand Av, Bunker Hill, Flower St and the Financial District.

This new Metro Rail extension will also provide a one-seat ride for travel across Los Angeles County. From the Metro Gold Line, passengers will be able to travel from Azusa to Long Beach and from East Los Angeles to Santa Monica without transferring lines.

The Regional Connector will improve access to both local and regional destinations by providing continuous thru service between these lines and providing connectors to other rail lines via the 7th St/Metro Center Station.

The new Metro Rail extension will offer an alternative transportation option to congested roadways and provide significant environmental benefits, economic development, and employment opportunities throughout Los Angeles County.

MONROVIA-GLENDORA LINE
The line had at least two unusual features which gained it wide publicity: the old and the new Santa Anita Racetracks were erected on the old Baldwin Ranch near Arcadia and PE Monrovia trains were joined by special trains which carried thousands to see the ponies run; and then there was the Great Bridge over the San Gabriel River, just west of Azusa which will receive due attention subsequently.
ROUTE:
From 6th & Main Station, Los Angeles, the line followed the Terminal District to Valley Junction, 3.31 miles. There it followed a double-track line to Indian Village, 4.62 miles where a four-track system began, continuing through Sierra Vista (7.60 miles) where the Alhambra Line and the Sierra Vista diverged, through Oneonta Park (8.45 miles) where the Pasadena Short Line turned north, and ending at El Molino (9.98 miles). At this point the Oak Knoll Line turned north. From El Molino the line continued as a double track line to San Marino (11.33 miles) where the Sierra Madre Line jointed, then on to Arcadia (16.28 Miles), Monrovia , Azusa (23.27) and Glendora . In later years, a single track only was used between Shamrock Avenue in Monrovia and East Duarte. After 1938 single track only was used from west end of Great Bridge over San Gabriel River to Azusa substation. Between Pasadena Avenue, Azusa, and end of line in Glendora the line was always single track.
This line was on private way from Mission Road, Los Angeles, to Glendora, although short stretches of street running were encountered in Arcadia, Monrovia and Azusa. From a point just north of Indian Village to Arcadia the line was in center strip between the twin boulevards of Huntington Drive.
HISTORY:
A double-track standard gauge electric railway was built in 1902 from LA to Alhambra-San Gabriel. In November 1902 this line was continued from Alhambra Junction (Sierra Vista) to Oneonta Park. In 1903 it was further extended as a double track line to Huntington Drive, Arcadia, and as a single track line from that point to Santa Anita Avenue, Arcadia; from that point it became a double track line again, continuing to the station in Monrovia at Myrtle Avenue The first through train from LA to Monrovia operated on March 1, 1903 making the 17.5 miles in 53 minutes with a 50 cent round trip fare charged.Construction further eastward was delayed somewhat. The first car reached Azusa in mid-November, 1907, and Glendora was reached the following month. To cross the San Gabriel River (between Rivas and Azusa), Huntington had to construct the Great Bridge, an engineering marvel of its day. In 1917 PE contemplated extending the line from Glendora to Lone Hill where it would connect with the LA-San Bernardino Line; after all rights-of-way had been obtained, PE was refused permission to built the line by the State Railroad Commission on the grounds it would unjustly compete with the Santa Fe. Prior to World War II PE and the Railroad Commission looked with favor upon the idea of abandoning rail passenger service east of Monrovia, due to extremely light patronage between Monrovia and Glendora. The upsurge of war traffic saved the line for the duration, but from 1946 onward, an almost continuous decline in number of revenue passengers handled per month set in. PE applied to abandon the Monrovia-Glendora Line rail passenger service, permission was given, and the last car rolled out of LA at 12:40 AM September 30, 1951. It was an SC-ERA (ERHA of SC) special, car 5078.

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