Metrolink (reporting mark SCAX ) is a commuter or regional train system in Southern California; it consists of seven lanes and 62 stations operating on 534 miles (859 km) of rail network.
The system operates in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura County, as well as Oceanside in San Diego County. It connects with the Metro Rail County system of Los Angeles, San Diego Coaster commuter train and Sprinter light rail service, and with Amtrak Pacific Surfliner , Coast Starlight , Southwest Head , and Sunset Limited intercity rail service.
This system, established in 1991 as the Southern California Regional Authority ( SCRRA ) and adopted "Metrolink" as its moniker, began operating in 1992. Average customer day work is 39,838 as 2017.
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Route
In addition to the community and suburbs, Metrolink also serves several points of interest such as Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood Burbank Airport, California State University, Los Angeles, Angel Stadium of Anaheim and San Clemente Pier. Specialized services have also been extended to Pomona Fairplex, Ventura County Fairgrounds, and Auto Club Speedway for specific events.
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Rates
The tariff structure of Metrolink is based on fixed costs for carriage rides and additional charges for distance to tariffs calculated with a 25 cent increment between stations.
Metrolink tickets are the fees applicable to most buses and connecting railways; A specific Metrolink ticket applies to certain Amtrak routes.
Tariff increases typically occur annually in July, coinciding with increases in fuel and labor costs, and generally average between 3.5% and 5% per year (although restructuring leads to a larger tariff leap). The rise in oil prices since 2003 was partly the cause of consistent tariff increases, as the Metrolink train was powered by diesel fuel.
History
SCRRA member agencies purchased 175 miles (282 km) of lanes, care centers, and other stations and properties from the South Pacific for $ 450 million in 1990 ($ 843 million adjusted for inflation). The right to use Los Angeles Union Station was purchased from Union Pacific, the owner of the station at the time, for $ 17 million in the same year ($ 113 million adjusted for inflation) (Union Station has been purchased by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transport Authority). Authority was formally established in 1991. Amtrak started a Ventura operation, Santa Clarita (later renamed Antelope Valley), and San Bernardino line on October 26, 1992 under a contract with SCRRA.
In 1993 the service expanded to include Riverside and Orange County Lines. The Inland Empire-Orange County Line opened in 1995. In 1995 more trains in the Orange County area were financed. Line 91 opened in 2002.
From July 2004, Metrolink rates were changed from zone based on one by distance. In 2005, a five-year operational contract was awarded to Connex Railroad/Veolia Transport. In 2005, the Orange County Transport Authority approved plans to increase the frequency to 76 trains daily in Orange County and Inland Empire-Orange County Lines in 2009, and funding for increased Metrolink services included in sales tax update Measures M for transportation approved by voters in November 2006. A proposed station in Yorba Linda was canceled in 2005 due to local opposition.
In July 2008 it was announced that passengers had increased 16% over the previous year. After 2008 the Chatsworth train collision in which 25 people died and 135 were injured a number of security measures were taken; in the fall of 2009, the inward-facing video camera was installed in the locomotive to ensure that staff complied with the rules, specifically the prohibition of cell phone use. In 2010, the first of 117 passenger cars absorbing energy (which reduces passenger casualties in case of accident) is received by the operator. Amtrak regains the contract to operate Metrolink starting July 2010. The average of the weekday passengers for the fourth quarter of 2009 is 38,400.
In 2010, to save money in the face of funding cuts, the Metrolink board voted to reduce daytime services at Inland Empire-Orange County Line, as well as weekend services in both the Orange County and Inland Empire-Orange County areas.
The average visitor on weekdays is 41,000 during May 2011. A survey found that 90% of users during a typical business day in 2009 will either be self-driven or swept away and that the system replaces about 25,000 vehicle trips. During the closing of Interstate 405 weekend in July 2011, the system recorded the weekend's top 20,000 boarders who were 50% higher than the same weekend in 2010 and 10% higher than previous weekend travel records that occurred during the Tour U2 360 Â ° in June 2011. Leadership continues to increase in 2012 (up 2%), when the average working day reaches 42,265. Despite the 2013 annual boardings of nearly 12.07 million, passengers dropped to 11.74 million in the fall of 2014 as opposed to projections. Blaming the decline in the worst recession since World War II, Metrolink said it found itself trapped between cutting services and raising tariffs, both of which would likely further reduce the number of passengers.
Metrolink started offering mobile tickets in early 2016.
The Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) extends Line 91 southeast 24 miles (39 km) to Perris, using the existing San Jacinto Branch Line, purchased in 1993. The initial plan is for the construction/renovation of the track starting in 2012, but this was delayed by a lawsuit filed by the homeowner in the affected area, which challenged the RCTC environmental report. The lawsuit was settled at the end of July 2013. Construction of the $ 248.3 million extension began in October 2013; the service was originally planned to begin in December 2015, and then in February 2016. In mid-February 2016, the opening of the extension was planned in March of that year. The extension opened in June 2016.
The famous incident
Placentia, April 2002
Two people were killed and 22 seriously injured on April 23, 2002, when the BNSF freight trains collided directly with the Metrolink train in Placentia, near the Atwood Crossroads, at the intersection of Orangethorpe Avenue and Richfield Road. Both trains are on the same east-west route moving towards each other. The Metrolink has the right path; it should turn to the south path. The BNSF train should have slowed down and stopped just before the switch while the Metrolink passed, but the crew missed a signal of a mile and a half again warning them to slow down. When the crew saw a red "stop" signal on the switch and the Metrolink train, they were too quick to avoid a collision. Although there is speculation that a signal reminding BNSF to slow down and stop it is not working, the inquiry then concludes that it was a human error by the crew that caused the accident.
Glendale, January 2005
Eleven people were killed (including a deputy sheriff who was not on duty and a rail conductor) and more than 100 people were injured, about 40 people on January 26, 2005, when a Metrolink passenger trains collided with a vehicle parked on a rail, which was then taken hostage. and hit a stationary cargo locomotive and the Metrolink train was moving in the opposite direction. The man who parked the vehicle on the tracks, Juan Manuel Alvarez, was arrested and charged with 11 first-degree murder charges in special circumstances, including a railway accident. On 26 June 2008, Alvarez was convicted of 11 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Chatsworth (Los Angeles), September 2008
Twenty-six people were killed and 135 wounded when the Metrolink commuter train carrying 222 people collided with a Union Pacific carriage train, dropping one of the passenger cars and the locomotive to its side in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles. Together with 135 injured people, 81 were transported to a local hospital in serious or critical condition. The speed of the train caused the locomotive into a telescope into the first passenger car. About 218 people were killed by the Metrolink train crash from 1993 to 2008, a number that includes pedestrians.
Oxley Oxnard, February 2015
Thirty people were injured when the Ventura County Metrolink Route Line to south 102 (East Ventura to LA Union Station) crashed into a truck that stops on a rail at the intersection of Rice Avenue near Oxnard at around 5:40 pm on February 24, 2015. One person, a train engineer, then died of his wounds. The driver, who had left the truck before the accident, was found by police and taken into custody. The train comprises the leading "guardian fleet" fleet of Hyundai-Rotem's cabin, Bombardier Bi-level "bike car" coach, two Hyundai-Rotem "guardian fleet" trainers and EM5 F59PH locomotive. After this accident, Metrolink hired 40 diesel cargo locomotives from BNSF, to be placed into service as a temporary taxi car when they investigated the problem with their Hyundai-Rotem car. On July 8, 2016, the Metrolink board approved a $ 1.5 million plan to fix the rover on the Hyundai Rotem carriage. After the repair is complete, the car will be back in operation and the BNSF locomotive leased will be returned.
Future
Metrolink has grown in popularity and there are a number of planned extensions from new systems and stations. The parking capacity of the station has also been strained.
A new Metrolink station in Placentia, which will serve Northern Orange County 91 Line passengers, has completed its final design phase, except for problems associated with the parking necessary to accompany the station. The construction of the $ 24 million Placentia station is currently projected to begin in 2018, and is scheduled to open in 2020.
The San Bernardino-Redlands Passenger Rail Corridor, a 9-mile (14 km) eastward railroad extension from San Bernardino to Redlands and Mentone, is planned by San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG). The Association is considering whether to extend commuter trains along the corridors or to install bus rapid transit or light rail lines, but by December 2015, SANBAG officials said it plans to extend the Metrolink service only to the San Bernardino Transit Center and use some diesel units operated by Omnitrans as a replacement for the locomotive Metrolink trainer-transported on the rest of the route. However, Metrolink can provide services to Redlands as part of the extension. The project, budgeted at $ 242 million, is expected to begin final design in September 2015. Construction is projected to begin in late 2017, with service beginning at the end of 2019.
The Metropolitan Transport Authority of Los Angeles County (Metro) has proposed the addition of commuter train services along the Harbor Subdivision corridor offering services to Inglewood, Los Angeles International Airport, South Bay, Los Angeles Harbor and/or Long Beach Port. The decision whether to use commuter trains, light rail, or fast bus transportation in this corridor has not been reached by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transport Authority.
In 2008, lobbyists pushed the rail line to Temecula in southwest Riverside County through 91 Line's La Sierra station. While this proposed path can follow the route of the abandoned freight line, it will require significant money, since the freight service stopped almost 30 years ago. Nevertheless, the Riverside County Commuter Traffic Feasibility Study in 2008 still lists this route as a possible consideration.
Cities in Coachella Valley (Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Palm Desert, and Indio) have requested commuter train services from Los Angeles and Orange County, but Union Pacific Railroad opposes further passenger services on track. Nonetheless, in 1999, the Coachella Valley Government Association was investigating the possibility of two daily round trips via Line 91 from Union Los Angeles Station via Fullerton and Riverside to stations in Palm Springs and Indio (with possible stops near Palm Desert), perhaps through partnership with Amtrak. This extension will also require significant money for infrastructure improvements: at least $ 500 million, according to the State of California Railway Plan 2005. Nevertheless, in 2013 Caltrans conducted a feasibility study of the Coachella Valley service and the RCTC has decided to pursue one.
The expansion into Kern County has been discussed in the Kern County Council of Government 2012 report.
High speed rail interface
During the early years of operation of the California High Speed ​​Train between Merced and Burbank, which is projected to begin in 2022, passengers will use Metrolink to travel between Burbank and downtown Los Angeles. An alternative plan would have a line sharing to Union Station but this would require electrification for part of the path. This alternative plan will provide a "one seat" early in the service between Central Valley and downtown, or even Orange County.
Government
SCRRA is a joint power authority regulated by five regional level agencies: the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transport Authority, the Orange County Transportation Authority, Riverside County Transportation Commission, the Government of the San Bernardino Association, and the Ventura District Transport Commission. Ex officio members include the Southern California Government Association, the San Diego Government Association, and the state of California.
Metrolink Headquarters at one time was at MCI Center. In 2000, Metrolink expanded rent at the MCI Center of 6,700 square feet (620 m 2 ), giving the agency a total of about 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2 ) space. In June 2011, Metrolink moved its headquarters to the MTA Building, where the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transport Authority (LACMTA) is also headquartered. Metrolink will move to the Wilshire Grand Center in 2018 along with the Southern California Government Association. The move is precipitated by LACMTA which requires more space in the MTA Building.
In 2014, an internal report suggests a change in the structure of the railway administration because of conflicting demands from various institutions is difficult to fulfill. The report proposes to transfer operations to a local transit agency.
Facilities
Metrolink operates several maintenance facilities throughout its service area. The Central Maintenance Facility (CMF) is located on the eastern edge of the Los Angeles River near the intersection of highways 5 and 110, just south of the former South Pacific Taylor Yard location. This facility is operated by Metrolink equipment maintenance contractor: Bombardier Transportation. The nearest Maintenance East facility is located in San Bernardino. Metrolink Trains are also served at the Stuart Mesa Coaster Facility, located between San Clemente Pier and Oceanside at the southwest end of Camp Pendleton. This page is owned by North County Transit District.
The Metrolink operation center is located in Pomona, near Pomona (North) station.
Rolling stock
The Metrolink fleet consists of 55 locomotives, The EMD: F40PHR, F59PH, F59PHi, F125
MPI: MP36PH-3C,
Passenger cars: Bombardier Bi-level, Rotem cars
For an in-depth list of Metrolink Rolling Stocks, visit the Metrolink Rolling Stock page.
Livery
Most owned Metrolink units are painted with white livery with blue stripes. The agency is currently in the process of switching to new blue and green "ribbon" designs since the proposed changes in 2007. Locomotives are being given updated designs during routine maintenance, and Fleet Guard arrives from the factory in new colors.
See also
- Transportation in San Diego County
- Transport in Los Angeles
- Hal Bernson, former chairman of Metrolink
References
External links
- Official website
- Metrolink service update on Twitter
- Metrolink on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority website
- Metrolink on the Orange County Transportation Authority website
- Metrolink on the Riverside County Transportation Commission website
- Metrolink on the San Bernardino Associated Governments website
- Metrolink on the Ventura District Transport Commission website
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