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Article: Green Line Defies Predictions as Ridership Surges.(higher gasoline prices, parking rates downtown and increasing congestion responsible)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 10, 2001
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When it opened in the summer of 1995, the Metro Rail Green Line was dubbed "the train to nowhere."
On the west, it bypassed LAX and went to the shrinking aerospace employment center in El Segundo. On the east, it ended in Norwalk, two miles short of a major rail and bus transportation hub in Santa Fe Springs.
Transit officials predicted a mere 10,000 riders per day for the line running down the median of the Century (105) Freeway.
But now, the Green Line is packed at rush hour as average ridership reaches a record 33,000 passengers per day. So many people are taking the Green Line that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is adding cars to ...