Santa Monica, CA awaiting the Expo Line's launch

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"Each day, about 80,000 people travel to Santa Monica for work. At the same time, about 45,000 Santa Monica residents head to jobs outside the city.

Most drive solo, often on jammed freeways.

This latest stretch of track, which rolls through key tech and entertainment job centers all the way to the ocean, offers a fresh chance to lure new riders.

Santa Monica officials have been working hard to give the train a central role in the city.

Taking the train, of course, carries its own set of challenges — notably getting to a station, and from a station to a destination. But the city plans to highlight the relatively easy ways in which these hurdles can be overcome.

They can take the bus to the train. They can take a ride share from the train. They can travel all the way or part of the way to their destinations by bike share.

Commuters will be able to see right away where to pick up one of the new Breeze bike share rides or wait for an Uber or Lyft or a Santa Monica Big Blue Bus or Metro bus. There will be signs pointing out the places one might want to head on foot.”

Read more at:
http://www.latimes.com/local/westside/la-me-santa-monica-expo-line-20160420-story.html

[flamingdem]

1. Glad it's happening but there's corruption behind it

Turns out that several in city government own land by the chosen Colorado expo line. Oh and it's appreciated massively with this project. So many other things like that. They were too cheap to elevate the train so it will lead to deaths, accidents and massive traffic delays.

It's already the case and the train is just testing.