downtown Los Angeles in 27 minutes!

Yes ladies & gentlemen the future is here. Ride from the westside to downtown in the comfort of our air conditioned cars. No longer must you leave work at 2 pm to make it to the symphony on time. Come experience convenient mass transit.

Exposition Metro Line

The Exposition Light Rail line will be approximately 9 miles in length. It parallels the heavily congested I-10 Freeway, and is scheduled to open in June 2010.

Approximately eight new stations will be constructed between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City, with an estimated travel time of 27 minutes.

Landscaping is a particularly important element in creating the Exposition Light Rail line as a transit parkway. When it opens, the Exposition Light Rail line will feature over 2,000 trees and 450,000 shrubs and vines. In fact, trees removed during preconstruction will be replaced at a 3:1 ratio (three trees planted for every tree removed).

The estimated cost of the project to Culver City is $640 million. A future second phase would extend the Exposition line to the City of Santa Monica.



Ride your bicycle downtown without getting run over. Get out of your car. Experience LA.


Wait a second, this all seems so familiar.

Flashback!



"Although the State of California has a car culture reputation, rail mass transit is no stranger to the City of Los Angeles. From 1874 to 1963 there have always been some type of fixed rail system in Los Angeles. During the 1920s and through much of the 1940s Los Angeles had the world's largest rail transit system with 1100 track miles, operated by the Pacific Electric Railway. These was not slow streetcar lines but rather high speed interurban rail lines with trains that ran on their own right of ways between Los Angeles and the suburbs. Back then most traveled by train and didn't own a car since they were expensive to own and operate. Many residential buildings were built without garages. After all, who needed a car and a garage when there was an excellent transportation system available. Then came the automobile, freeways, and the conspiracy."

"At first automobiles were too expensive for the average paycheck until the late 20s when prices came down, sales went up and rail ridership started to decline. This was made even worse in the late 40s with the opening of Los Angeles's first freeways (called parkways then) which made traveling by car more convenient and enjoyable. However, these were not the only reasons for the demise of the Los Angeles rail system and rail systems around the world. A consortium of oil, rubber, General Motors and other companies bought up rail lines worldwide then replaced interurbans and streetcars with buses. By 1961 the last remaining interurban rail line in Los Angeles went out of service and in 1963 the last streetcar line shut down."
-Los Angeles Transit System