The Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension, overdue for a number of reasons, may finally be getting on track. Testing is to begin this Sunday, according to Metro. Throughout the day on Thursday, Oct 1st, Metro was announcing via the Red Line and Gold Line station P.A. systems that straphangers "should exit Gold Line Trains at Union Station as quickly as possible, as the Gold Line trains will be continuing south along the Eastside Extension for testing."
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Its about damn time!
I know its not a big distance but i hate walking from Atlantic Blvd at Beverly Blvd(where i get off the Montebello 10) and then having to walk the 1/2 mile to 3rd St and Mednik Ave (to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf)
Im too cheap to pay another $1.10 to take the 40 :)
And do you know if anyone or yourself, have stayed on the trains and taken the test rides to East Los? mmmm
Posted by: loveandhatela | 10/03/2009 at 01:00 PM
Exciting! :)
Posted by: Matt | 10/04/2009 at 02:58 PM
Owing to my fleeting youth yielding to the inevitable middle age, I nho longer hop trains like I did a couplea decades ago. However, I did spend the better part of last Monday filming the Gold Line trains' tests along a handful of stations, and will post brief clips from the few hours worth of video, on Thursday.
Posted by: Randall BusTard | 10/07/2009 at 10:28 AM