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LACMTA Regional Connector
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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority Regional Connector project (also referred to as the Downtown Connector) is a proposed mass transit rail project in downtown Los Angeles, connecting the Blue Line to Union Station.
This connection would begin at the 7th Street/Metro Center station, which is currently the northern terminus of the Blue Line. The project is still at very preliminary stages of planning and thus no alignment has yet been determined, but a number of alignments have been informally studied and proposed. The connector was envisioned as far back as 1992, when in its Long Range Transportation Plan, LACMTA envisioned the Blue Line running through downtown to Union Station and onward to Pasadena. The connector was not completed due to lack of funds and realignment of the Red Line eastside extension which became an extension of the Pasadena Gold Line.
The project was most recently revived in 2004, when LACMTA staff initiated a technical feasibility assessment for a potential regional connector. This study focused on conceptual methods to provide a regional connector and to alleviate potential operational constraints. In July of 2006, the LACMTA Board voted to approve funding and staff to initiate a major investment study for the Regional Connector in conjunction with approval of a similar study for the extenstion of the Red Line subway.
Previous studies have determined that any alignment of the downtown connector could not be done entirely underground due to funding constraints. Such studies have contemplated an all at-grade alignment along Alameda Street and Washington Boulevard, as well as a partial underground alignment along Flower Street, surfacing somewhere between 3rd and 1st Streets and then proceeding east to Alameda Street, where it would join the tracks of the Gold Line, which continue northward to Union Station.
The Transit Coalition has prepared presentations and advocacy materials in favor of the Regional connector. [1]
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority [2]
City of Los Angeles Office of the Mayor [3]
| Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (website) | |
| Metro Bus | Metro Local – Metro Rapid – Metro Express |
| Metro Rail | Red Line – Purple Line – Blue Line – Green Line – Gold Line – Expo Line (future) |
| Metro Liner | Orange Line |
| Metro Transitways | Harbor Transitway – El Monte Busway |
| Connecting rail | Amtrak – Amtrak California – Metrolink |
| Other information | Union Station – Metro Fleet – Transportation of Los Angeles |