Recent Streetsblog LA posts about E Line (Expo Line)

Expo Line Un-Reasonably Closing in on 2020 Ridership Goals

By Damien Newton | Sep 20, 2012 | 15 Comments

It seems rail transit can perform just fine in Los Angeles, despite what folks at the pretend-Libertarian Reason Foundation would tell you. Back in April, the Foundation sent a pair of riders to ride the mostly-opened Expo Line and declared it a disaster. In its first weeks of operation, the line barely attracted a third […]

Approximately 8,000 Fans Took the Expo Line to the USC – Hawai’i Game this Past Weekend.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 5, 2012 | 13 Comments

The link to the original photo is here. Did you ride the Expo Line to the USC game this past weekend? If so, you were one of what Metro estimates to be the approximately 8,000 fans who chose to train their way to the game. Moreover, Metro calculates that at least half of those fans […]

The Challenge Of Getting The Expo Bikeway Done Right

By Gary Kavanagh | Aug 24, 2012 | 6 Comments

After a delay that had left many Expo Line Bicycle Advisory Committee members uncomfortable, given the pace that major elements of bridge construction are, the committee final met again this Tuesday with Expo project representatives. Damien covered some of the concerns going into this meeting in a post last week. Given the significance of this project […]

Ridership Continues to Increase on Expo Line

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 17, 2012 | 32 Comments

Ridership on the Expo Line continues to be “on a roll,” touts Zev Yaroslavsky in his blog. With the opening of the Culver City and Farmdale stations in late June and the reconfiguration of some bus lines to make connections easier, ridership jumped by more than 175,000 passengers, an increase of 55%, between May and […]

Experiments in Enhancing the Experience of Public Art Along the Expo Line

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 9, 2012 | 2 Comments

Have you ever stood in front of a piece of public art and thought your experience would be all the awesomer if you had some context for the work? Or maybe you passed by a public artwork every day and it didn’t register with you until someone engaged you on questions of its value and […]

First Impressions of the Expo Line

By Damien Newton | Jun 20, 2012 | 17 Comments

No, this isn’t about my first impressions. It’s about his. It was with some amazement that I realized that Sammy has never ridden Metro rail. In his nearly three years, we’ve ridden airport connectors and the New York Subway together, but never Metro rail. What better day to break that streak than the opening of […]

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