Metrolink (Los Angeles)

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Metrolink trains at Union Station in Los Angeles

Under the designation Metrolink is Railway -Vorortverkehr in the metropolitan area of the Californian city of Los Angeles operated.

history

Metrolink.

prehistory

Metrolink Hyundai Rotem
Metrolink - Hyundai Red Cab Car.JPG

Until 1992 Los Angeles had no railroad suburban traffic at all. All previously existing railway systems were discontinued in the 1950s and 1960s. The city of 3.8 million inhabitants also had neither subways nor trams after the extensive tram and light rail network was also gradually discontinued after the Second World War . The meager bus service covered the most urgent needs of those parts of the population who did not have a car. As elsewhere, car traffic in the car-friendly city increased so that the state of California, the city of Los Angeles and the districts in the surrounding area (a total of 17 million inhabitants) had to deal with new traffic concepts. In addition to subway and light rail routes in Los Angeles, a suburban railway network with a length of more than 400 kilometers was also designed.

Foundation of the SCRRA

Metrolink stop in Burbank

The prerequisite for this was the founding of the Southern California Railroad Administration (SCRRA) in 1991. This authority acts both as operator and owner of rail infrastructure whose tracks previously belonged to large freight railways. From 1992 it started with three lines. The state-run passenger transport company Amtrak was commissioned with the operation, using the new Bombardier BiLevel double-decker coaches built in Canada and its own staff. In the beginning, the service was only used for rush hour purposes, as is often the case in the USA, on Mondays to Fridays, but today the network comprises seven lines, with trains running on most routes on weekends. Today the network extends to such well-known places as San Bernardino and Anaheim ( Disneyland ).

From June 2005 to June 25, 2010 Connex Railroad or Veolia Transport took over the operation of the Metrolink network on behalf of SCRRA before Amtrak was able to win back the order.

business

Amtrak provides the driver. The route is partly owned by the SCRRA, partly by the BNSF Railway or the Union Pacific Railroad .

In the third quarter of 2019, an average of 38,436 commuters and day trippers were transported with 62 diesel locomotives and 258 wagons on weekdays; supplemented by an average of 1,054 passengers per day using Amtrak trains with Metrolink tickets. In the same quarter of the previous year 37,652 or 965 passengers were registered. The number of passengers in 2019 was thus roughly at the level of 2009, after 42,265 and 1,545 travelers were recorded in 2012, but usage had dropped significantly by the middle of the decade.

On the route network of 624 km, 173 trains run on workdays, 48 ​​on Saturdays and 42 trains on Sundays, serving a total of 62 stations.

Metrolink line network 2012 - The extension to Perris is now in operation.

The seven Metrolink lines cover a length of 624 km with parallel guides and a line length of 861 km. Except for the Inland Empire-Orange County Line, all lines start and end at Union Station in Los Angeles.

The seven lines are:

  • Ventura County Line from East Ventura to Los Angeles (12 stations; 114.1 km)
  • Antelope Valley Line from Lancaster to Los Angeles (12 stations; 123.3 km)
  • San Bernardino Line from San Bernardino to Los Angeles (14 stations; 92.7 km)
  • Riverside Line from Riverside to Los Angeles (7 stations; 95.1 km)
  • Orange County Line from Oceanside to Los Angeles (15 stations; 140.3 km)
  • Inland Empire-Orange County Line from San Bernardino to Oceanside (16 stations; 161.1 km)
  • 91 / Perris Valley Line from Perris South via Fullerton to Los Angeles (12 stations; 134.9 km)

Metrolink is expected to operate the Arrow line between San Bernardino and Redlands on behalf of the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) from early 2022 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tony Biasotti: Metrolink wants to replace train operator Connex. In: Ventura County Star. August 29, 2009, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ Fred Camino: Amtrak to begin operating Metrolink trains on June 26th. In: "The Source" blog. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, March 26, 2010, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Metrolink: FY2012 Boardings Q4 ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 46 kB)
  4. ↑ a b c Southern California Regional Rail Authority's FACT SHEET 3/2019. Southern California Regional Rail Authority, 2019, accessed August 18, 2020 .
  5. ^ Southern California Regional Rail Authority's FACT SHEET 2/2009. Southern California Regional Rail Authority, 2009, archived from the original ; accessed on August 18, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ Metrolink: Factsheet FY2019 Q1 (PDF; 162 kB)
  7. ↑ Steve Scauzillo: $ 520 million deficit has Omnitrans eyeing layoffs and bus-line reductions, but is it enough? San Bernardino Sun , October 21, 2019, accessed August 18, 2020 : “The county agency's Transit Committee voted to replace Omnitrans as the operator of the future Arrow passenger rail service between San Bernardino and Redlands with the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, the parent of Metrolink "

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