Metrolink (Los Angeles) – Wikipedia

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Under the designation Metrolink the railway on-site traffic is operated in the large area of ​​the California city of Los Angeles.

prehistory [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Interior of a Hyundai-red dub trolley

Hyundai red control car
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In the decades before 1992, Los Angeles had no railway on-site traffic at all. All previously existing railway systems were discontinued in the 1950s and 1960s. Also, the 3.8 million-inhabitant city also had no subway or trams, after the extensive tram or light rail network was also gradually discontinued after the Second World War. The poor bus traffic covered the most urgent needs of those parts of the population that did not have a car. A suburban traffic between the Union Station and Oxnard, which was opened on October 18, 1982 and operated under the brand name Caltrain with Amtrak roller material, suffered from the lack of political interest, as well as on disputes with the Southern Pacific regarding the Traditional usage fees and route capacities on the single -track route, so that the company was set again in March 1983 after the damage of a bridge. As elsewhere, car traffic in the car -friendly city increased in such a way that the state of California, the city of Los Angeles and counties 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 more than 400 kilometer long suburban network was also designed.

Foundation of the Scra [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The prerequisite for this was the foundation of the Southern California Railroad Administration (SCRA) in 1991. This authority appears both as an operator and as the owner of rail infrastructure, the tracks of which previously belonged. From 1992 three lines started. The state passenger transport company Amtrak was commissioned to operate the new, Canada built bombardier bile dual truck and its own staff. If, as is often the case in the United States, the network today has seven lines, as is often the case for vocational traffic purposes, as is often the case in the United States, with the trains also run on the weekend on most routes. The network extends to such well -known places as San Bernardino and Anaheim (Disneyland).

From June 2005 to June 25, 2010 took over Connex Railroad or Veolia transports the operation of the metrolink network on behalf of the Scra before Amtrak was able to regain the order. [first] [2]

Metrolink line network 2022

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Metrolink line network 2012

The driver provides Amtrak. Route is partly the Scra, partly BNSF Railway or the Union Pacific Railroad.

In the third quarter of 2019, 62 diesel locomotives and 258 cars were promoted on average 38,436 commuters and day trippers on weekdays; Supplemented by an average of 1,054 passengers per day that use Amtrak trains with metrolink driving cards. In the same quarter of the previous year, 37,652 and 965 passengers were registered. [3] [4] The passenger numbers were again at the level of 2009 in 2019, after 42,265 and 1,545 travelers were recorded in 2012, but the use had then dropped significantly by the middle of the decade. [5]

On the route network of 624 km, 173, 48 and on Sundays, 42 trains, which serve a total of 62 stations. [4] [6]

The seven metrolink lines include a line length of 861 km with a route length of 624 km through parallel tours. Except for the domestic empire-orange County Line, all lines at the Union Station in Los Angeles end.

The seven lines are [4] :

  • 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 Oceanide 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 has been operating on behalf of the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (Sbcta) also the Arrow -line between San Bernardino and Redlands. [7]

  1. ↑ Tony Biasotti: Metrolink will replace train operator Connex. In: Ventura County Star. 29. August 2009, Retrieved on August 18, 2020 (English).
  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, Retrieved on August 18, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Metrolink: FY2012 Boardings Q4 ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in 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, Retrieved on August 18, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Southern California Regional Rail Authority’s FACT SHEET 2/2009. Southern California Regional Rail Authority, 2009, archived from Original ; Retrieved 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, 21. OCTOBER 2019, Retrieved on August 18, 2020 (englisch): „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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