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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

A light rail [wikipedia.org] line which connected downtown Los Angeles to Culver City [wikipedia.org] has now been extended to the seaside community of Santa Monica [wikipedia.org]. The Santa Monica terminus [dictionary.com] (end) is the only station in the Los Angeles light rail system that is adjacent to a beach.

The Expo Line [wikipedia.org] follows a route that had been used for the same purpose from 1908 to 1953, when the Pacific Electric [wikipedia.org] system was decommissioned. The Los Angeles Railway [wikipedia.org], another passenger rail network, was closed around the same time.

The 6.6-mile (10.6 km) Phase 2 extension, built at a cost of $1.5 billion, opened on 20 May.

links:

• LA Weekly [laweekly.com]
• Los Angeles Times editorial [latimes.com]
• Los Angeles Times [latimes.com]
• Telegraph [telegraph.co.uk]
• CNS and Fox (KTTV-TV) [foxla.com]
• Santa Monica Daily News [smdp.com]
• Time Out Los Angeles [timeout.com]
• KTLA-TV [ktla.com]
• KPCC-FM [scpr.org]
• KPCC-FM [scpr.org]
• The San Gabriel Valley Tribune [sgvtribune.com]
• Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority brochure [buildexpo.org]

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