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ChineseA Double Whammy of Transit News
If you weren’t aware, (and I was definitely not) today is Dump the Pump Day. What does that mean? Well, the answer was not immediately clear to me. Obviously it means is a national day of public transportation awareness, but other then that I’m not really sure what happens. Public transportation is definitely not free for the day, at least not on Metro. I know there have been arguments for and against that in the past, but today seems like it would be ideal if well promoted.
So in honor of DTPD, Metro has announced four new rapid lines. Two of which are the new Rapid Express lines. How very exciting of them. The new lines are as follows:
- Line 704 on Santa Monica Boulevard
- Line 760 between Downtown Los Angeles and Metro Blue Line Artesia Station via Long Beach Boulevard
- Express Line 920 along Wilshire - KNBC reports it will start at Vermont and stop at Western, , Fairfax Avenue, Beverly Drive, Westwood Boulevard and Fourth Street in Santa Monica
- Express Line 940 along Hawthorne Boulevard in the South Bay
According to the official Metro press release, these lines will cut travel time by 15% over existing Rapid lines. So is that 40% total or 36.25% total? I was never very good at math.
The two express lines will start service on Monday. The release wasn’t clear on when the 704 and 760 would start running.
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704 and 760 will start with the schedule change on Sunday.
Links to the new line schedules, are included in this list instead of where one might have intuitively looked:
704: http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/riders_guide/images/704.pdf
760: http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/riders_guide/images/760.pdf
920: http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/riders_guide/images/920.pdf
940: http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/riders_guide/images/920.pdf