TMN | TRANSIT - Metro Line 950 El Monte to San Pedro (Southbound) FULL RIDE | 950 LIVES

TMN s3e26 | TRANSIT - Metro Line 950 El Monte to San Pedro (Southbound) FULL RIDE

El Monte CA | August 29, 2020 | 1305

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On December 13th, 2015, Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilman Joe Buscaino, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, and L.A. Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington celebrated the launch of Metro Line 950X in front of the historic battleship USS Iowa in San Pedro CA (MayorOfLA, 2015).

Former Express Line 450 merged into Line 950X, patrons are now able to travel beyond Downtown Los Angeles by eliminating transfers and wait times at Harbor Gateway Transit Center (Broverman, 2015). One-seat rides from San Pedro to El Monte was a breakthrough since the introduction of Rapid Lines during LA's transit renaissance at the turn of the century (Walker, 2020).

Five years later, transportation planners proposed a widely unpopular agenda called "Next Gen Bus Plan" (HumanTransit, LAStreets, LA Times, 2020). The Plan would eliminate one-seat rides on routes traveling at longer distances and cancel or consolidate Rapid and Express services to local lines (MTA, 2020).

Although still in its infancy, Line 950 is L.A. Metro's longest express route (rome2rio, 2020). It is scheduled to be eliminated in favor of resurrected but diminished Line 450 service coverage due to the Next Gen Bus Plan (NextGen, 2020, p. 184).

In this episode our crews documented the entire trip of Metro Line 950, from El Monte Station via Downtown Los Angeles to San Pedro Express. The total distance from El Monte to San Pedro on Metro Line 950 is 49.2 miles or 79.1 km (Rome2Rio, 2020).

Be the one who will always remember the mighty 950. #950LIVES

These are scenes of that afternoon.

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For schedule information on Metro Line 950 please visit: https://media.metro.net/documents/288...

Manufacture: North American Bus Industries
Class: Metro 45C CNG
Metro Fleet Number #8375
Metro Division: 9
VIN Number # 1N94533229A140172

References

Broverman, Neil (2015). Metro’s Thriving Silver Line Stretches to San Pedro. Retrieved on October 2020 From https://www.lamag.com/driver/metros-t...

Canadian Public Transit Discussion Board (2019). LACMTA 8500-8649. Retrieved on October 2020 From https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Los_A...

Human Transit (2020). End of the Metro Rapid? Retrieved on October 2020 from https://humantransit.org/2020/02/los-...

Hymon, Steve (2015). Silver Line now running to San Pedro. Retrieved on October 2020 from https://thesource.metro.net/2015/12/1...

Rome2Rio (2020). Transport. Retrieved on October 2020 from https://www.rome2rio.com/map/El-Monte...

LA Streets Blog (2020). Opinion. Retrieved on October 2020 from https://la.streetsblog.org/2020/03/05...

LA This Week (2016). Episode 869. Retrieved on October 2020 from
   • LA This Week, episode #869  

Los Angeles Times (2020). Editorial. Retrieved on October 2020 from
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story...

Mayor of LA (2015). Mayor Garcetti Announces Metro Silver Line Expansion.
Retrieved on October 2020 from
https://www.lamayor.org/mayor-garcett...

Next Gen Bus Plan (2020). Existing Line 950. Retrieved on October 2020 from
https://arellano.maps.arcgis.com/apps...