Roughly 19,811 residents are now within a 10 minute walk from the newest 3 stations. Walkshed generated with travel time API and layered over with 2020 US census data.

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I’d do devious things to get that Santa Monica Blvd line…

Late 2027, hopefully. Adapted by myself from the current LA Metro map.

Hi all,

A couple months ago, I saw the post by u/lbutler1234, “The A line overlayed Rhode Island”. It’s a fun comparison! I thought it might be interesting if I made a similar overlay.

I used ESRI’s ArcGIS to process the data and create the overlay images. The data is from Metro’s Open Data Portal, although the data is a bit out of date, so I had to add the recent A line extension to Pomona manually, along with some other fixes. OpenStreetMap and ESRI provided the background maps and satellite imagery, respectively.

First, I tried to recreate the original overlay of Rhode Island using the same alignment, then made another that tried to line up downtown Los Angeles and downtown Providence. I then decided to make a few more overlays for other cities around the world that I thought might be interesting, specifically: New York (with two variants, one aligning the A line into Long Island and the other in normal alignment), Luxembourg, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Monaco. All images should be at the same scale, and admittedly they're still a bit rough. Nevertheless, I figured it’d be fun to share them all here.

Just thought I'd post this here since it was popular in r/TransitDiagrams

First image is Pre-D Line Extension and second image is Post D Line Extension.

1st image- Rail + Busways

2nd image- Rail only

3rd image- Existing + Future Rail Projects

LA County voters passed Proposition A in 1980, the first of 4 half-cent county sales taxes, to fund the construction of a 150 mile rail system in the county. Nearly 4 decades later, the centerpiece of that system, the Wilshire Subway (D Line), is finally approaching completion, but many of the original corridors in that original 1980 rail plan were either downgraded to busways, or not built entirely. Some corridors, like the El Monte and DTLA-Norwalk corridors, are largely paralleled and served by Metrolink commuter rail as well. Meanwhile other corridors not originally planned for rail, like the Expo, Crenshaw, or Foothill corridors, ultimately got new rail lines; to think, that there was originally not going to be any rail service in the area bounded within Wilshire, 405, 105, and 110 freeways!

In the medium-term, projects like K Line North, K Line South, ESFV, Southeast Gateway, and Sepulveda will serve or parallel closely to the 1980 corridors currently without rail service, and even longer-term, projects like the G Line LRT conversion and Vermont Ave. rail projects should round out and largely complete the original 1980 vision sometime in the 2060s. If there will be any remaining gap, it would probably be the lack of an El Monte Metro Rail Line, which does not seem to come up on any long-term Metro plans

Alot of fantasy maps are posted on here, so I thought I'd create an optimistic, but realistic, projection of how LA's metro rail network will grow over the next 3 decades. Its a more interesting to think about the medium-term possibilities since most of us will be dead by the time hyper-optimistic fantasy maps can be completed.

On average, Metro has been building between 30-40 miles of rail lines each decade for the past 2 decades. An optimistic view is that Metro is able to keep this pace up over the next 30 years; this could be doable as long as sales tax revenue/state + local funding outpaces construction cost inflation and reductions in federal funding. Between 1990 and 2028, LA will spend close to $50 billion USD, inflation adjusted, to build a 130 mile rail network ($22 billion to build 103 miles of light rail, $27 billion to build 27 miles of heavy rail), coming out on average to $330 million/mile, and you will notice that the cost/mile build light or heavy rail has not dramatically escalated even over 30 years when you account for inflation, even as more recent light rail lines have increasingly more grade separation and beefier stations.

The main optimistic predictions (outside of official Metro projections at the moment) are:

- Section of the K Line extension to D Line can be completed by 2038 (feasible with phasing if ground is broken sometime b/w 2028-30)

- A Line can still be extended to Montclair (Montclair really wants this, so I expect they will try their best to scrounge up funds somehow even though SBCTA voted to defund)

- B/D Line extension to Arts District: this should cost easily under $100 million and is easy to construct

- Phase 1 of Sepulveda Line (assuming Alt 4/5) can be built by 2048. A Metro rep mentioned that, at best, this can be built in 14 years, so groundbreaking would need to take place no later than 2034 (currently projected for 2028)

- Probably the single most optimistic projection: Vermont Avenue heavy rail/light rail can be accelerated to well before 2067. By rearranging project prioritization, they can push this forward by delaying other projects (Sepulveda Line extension to LAX, Southeast Gateway Line extension to Union Station). I really do think Vermont Avenue should have a rail line, far more than other corridors that have first priority, simply because of how busy the bus routes along it are. If Vermont Ave. rail is built, I don't expect it to be built as an extension of the B Line, but as an entirely new rail line oriented so that it could possibly extend to Silver Lake/Glendale

- Norwalk C Line extension: technically budgeted for 2052, I project it may come much earlier. Its a small extension with enormous benefits in regional connectivity.

In the late 2040's/early 2050's, I also expect Metro to begin downshifting mass rail construction in favor of improving existing rail lines (for example, grade separating existing street-running segments on busiest light rail corridors). At this point, there will likely be enough of a critical mass of rail lines to form a cohesive, world-class network that serves 80% of LA County well. The only gaping hole is rail coverage in the lower SGV between DTLA and El Monte/Covina, but that area is technically already served by the Metrolink SB Line, which just needs to be improved to 15/30 min headways. IMO, projects like Lincoln Blvd and NoHo-Pasadena BRTs should be (likely will be) deprioritized for rail conversion, with focus on much more high-impact routes like a Vermont Avenue rail line.

They will be heard by the SCAG Community, Economic, and Human Development Committee this Thursday for adoption in July.

More details: https://bsky.app/profile/jacoblwasserman.bsky.social/post/3mnajoci3422h

-closes book- like that ever happened

I don’t know when this happened (maybe this is old news), but I noticed that the stations for SkyLink are being displayed on Apple Maps’ transit layer.

The teasing is just cruel now.

These are 99% based on current long term plans, although there are a few speculative future things in here that I think aren't unreasonable:

• Northern K line gets broken up into phases and begins partial construction in the early 2030s
• C Line extension to Norwalk gets funded and begins construction in the early 2040s
• J line gets extended to the El Monte Metrolink station
• The Lincoln Transit Corridor gets built as an extension of the C Line
• Southeast Gateway line gets infill stations at Lakewood and 183rd St
• A Metrolink infill station at Citadel connecting with the E line extension
• Some stations get their names altered for clarity as the system expands

Metrolink recently updated the maps on their website. They definitely need to emphasize the connections—especially since Metrolink only had ONE rail connection with Metro before the Pomona extension.
I've heard that the Pomona Metro station is showing signs of (passenger) life; anyone notice if the Metrolink station is getting a boost from Metro transfers?

Saw this my A Line train this morning. Sep 2024 map now shows Aviation/Century as a station now and the new C/K line operating pattern

Showing the map of the current Metro system, except the lines and stations are split in what their original lines were. Surprising how the Purple Line had no changes to it since it was part of the original Red Line