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At the end of July Michael Antonovich as Chairman of LA Metro introduced a motion calling for more rail and bus connections to the regional airports in the Los Angeles area. The following waterfront hotel labuan malaysia are some excepts from that motion.
Los Angeles waterfront hotel labuan malaysia County, home to 10.2 million people and adjacent to millions more, requires a regional airport system to provide effective air transportation options to support the region s  economy, mobility and quality of life.
Three airports-Bob Hope, Long Beach and Los Angeles International (LAX)-operate within waterfront hotel labuan malaysia the County, with a fourth-Ontario-just across the San Bernardino County border. A fifth airport-Palmdale-provides tremendous waterfront hotel labuan malaysia potential waterfront hotel labuan malaysia for future additional airport capacity to serve the region, waterfront hotel labuan malaysia especially with the development of the High Desert Corridor, upgraded Metrolink  tracks from Los Angeles and future high speed rail links to Bakersfield and Victorville.
Of all these airports, the only one with a direct rail link is the Bob Hope Airport with an Amtrak/Metrolink station on its south side. For a region that would be the eighth largest state on its own,larger waterfront hotel labuan malaysia than Pennsylvania and just behind Ohio, this fact represents waterfront hotel labuan malaysia a failure of our regional transportation and government agencies to coordinate waterfront hotel labuan malaysia and prioritize the connection of our regional airport system to our regional rail transportation network
There is  currently no funding for any of these possible connections. Extending the Orange Line Buses to connect Bob Hope Airport with the Red Line at North Hollywood and possibly the area around Warner/Disney and NBC Studios is a reasonable project in a short period of time. Ontario is a unique problem since it is served like Bob Hope with two separate railines both of which are controlled by the UP. Amtrak has a station in downtown Ontario on the old SP line from LA to Colton for the Tri-weekly Sunset. The old SP line goes right past the terminals of Ontario Airport. Metrolink has a station at Ontario Airport but on the old UP line to Riverside which is behind the runways from the terminals and some distance away. Ideally a new Metrolink service could be created to connect Ontario Airport on the old SP Line to Colton with connections out of LAUS. This would require additional track work and cooperation from the UP which is unlikely any time soon. Efforts to extend the Gold Line to Ontario Airport are ongoing. However there are problems with funding and because this would extend a Los Angeles County service to Ontario which is in San Bernardino County even though Ontario Airport waterfront hotel labuan malaysia is owned by LAX.
Nothing is easy about serving LAX by rail. Current plans are to extend the Green Line and build a new light rail Crenshaw Line to serve the LAX area. There is still no agreement on how passengers would get to the terminal. waterfront hotel labuan malaysia Most talked about would be a People Mover to the terminals which would share a station at Aviation waterfront hotel labuan malaysia and Century Blvd with the extended Green and newly built Crenshaw waterfront hotel labuan malaysia Lines. Another proposal being looked at would extend the Green Line all the way into the terminals at LAX with the Crenshaw line passengers transferring to the Green Line to go to LAX. The Crenshaw Line which is expected to be running by 2018 is only 8.5 miles long and will meet the Expo Line at Crenshaw Blvd and travel down Crenshaw to Florence Ave where it will travel on the old Santa Fe Harbor Line which runs along Aviation Blvd next to LAX and end at Imperial Highway on the south end of LAX. For a passenger at Union Station waterfront hotel labuan malaysia this means in the future with the Regional Connector they will be able to catch the Expo Line at Union Station but transfer to the Crenshaw waterfront hotel labuan malaysia Line then to either waterfront hotel labuan malaysia the Green Line or People Mover to the terminals. LA Metrol Planners feel running Crenshaw Line trains on the Expo Line will create congestion on the Expo tracks. From LAUS passenger in the future could also catch the Blue Line and transfer to the Green Line at the Century Freeway. But only the current Flyaway waterfront hotel labuan malaysia Buses give direct service from LAUS to LAX terminals. The Green Line stops 2 miles short of the Metrolink Station at Norwalk. In the late 90 s the plan was to extend the Green Line to Metrolink with a subway. That project died due to lack of funding.
What would be a better, faster and cheaper alternative would be to run Metrolink from LAUS to LAX, Ontario, Long Beach, Palmdale as well as Bob Hope Airports.This can generally be done using existing rail rights of way although these lines may not last long. With track work and new connections Metrolink trains could run from LAUS to Aviation and Century on the old Santa Fe Harbor Line. For this to happen the Crenshaw Light Rail Line would have to be built so Metrolink could share the right of way but with separate tracks. The Green Line and the Harbor Line already share the same right of way south of LAX. The Harbor Line also runs along Slauson Ave which the local residents would likely want mitigation efforts to run more rail service on. Using the Harbor Line it would be possible to run run trains from Orange County directly to the LAX area by passing LAUS. Doing this would be cheaper than 2 miles of subway in Norwalk and create direct connections on Metrolink to the Green and Crenshaw Lines near LAX. Serving Long Beach Airport is the old UP Harbor Line and Metrolink  with a shuttle connections or track extension could serve the terminals. Metrolink would be able with improved track connections to run on the old UP Harbor Line from LAUS. The most difficult to achieve would be service by Metrolink to the Ontario Airport because of the difficulty of coming waterfront hotel labuan malaysia to an agreement with the UP. But by running Metrolink services from Orange County, the Inland Empire, the San Fernando waterfront hotel labuan malaysia Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley and High Desert with trains running through LAUS we could connect all these regions to LAX, Palmdale, Ontario, waterfront hotel labuan malaysia Long Beach and Bob Hope airports.
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