Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension to break ground June 26
Written by jrood
Local officials including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are scheduled to take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Metro Gold Line Foothills Extension Saturday morning, June 26, in Newcastle Park in Arcadia, Calif.
The proposed extension will
continue the Metro Gold Line from its current terminus in East Pasadena through
the cities of Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale, Azusa, Glendora, San Dimas,
La Verne, Pomona, Claremont and Montclair. There will be six stations in five
cities. A trip from Montclair to downtown Pasadena would take a little over 40
minutes and further to Los Angeles would take approximately 75 minutes.
The Metro Gold Line
Construction Authority is an independent transportation planning and
construction agency created in 1998 by the California State Legislature. Its
sole purpose was to immediately resume design, contracting and construction of the
Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Gold Line (formerly the Pasadena Blue Line),
which had been suspended by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation
Authority (Metro) in the same year. The newly formed construction authority
completed its charge in just under three years with the 13.7-mile line opened
in 2003 on time and under budget. For this leg of the project, state and local
funding were already in place to fund the project.
The same legislation that
created the Construction Authority also dictated its role to plan and construct
"any fixed mass transit guide way eastward to Claremont." This was later
extended to Montclair to include the city’s regional transit hub, the "Transcenter,"
and gain the support and participation of the San Bernardino Council of
Governments.
