Quake Griffin wrote:WC NBA Fan wrote:wco81 wrote:Crenshaw to LAX?
Isn't Crenshaw the hood? How many people there take flights?
Must run through downtown areas?
Seems like a train to the airport would also be useful to the suburbs.
What these rail lines do is connect people from all over LA county via transfer from other lines. For example, if you live in Santa Monica, you would take the Expo line to Crenshaw then transfer to the LAX Crenshaw line to get to LAX.
If you live in the valley, you would take the Orange line then transfer to the Red line subway in North Hollywood then transfer to the Expo line downtown then transfer to the LAX Crenshaw line at Crenshaw.
If you live in Duarte, Monrovia or Sierra Madre, you would take the gold line to Union Station then make your way to the Expo line and of course, transfer at Crenshaw to the LAX Crenshaw line. You can basically make your way to the Crenshaw LAX line from any other metro rail line provided you're willing to transfer enough.
Sounds yucky.
I lived in Chicago for a few years. I'd def catch the Orange Line to Midway (you could catch the Blue to O'Hare but I never did). I just got dropped off at the Orange and it was a straight shot. All that transferring sounds terrible and sounds like no way to travel at all.
I've done the blue line to O'Hare. The Crenshaw line will be similar to that because it starts out underground then goes above then back under then above again.
You're right in that Chicago was smart as they connected all lines to the downtown loop so that if you have to transfer, you only have to do it once but for most people, you do have to transfer. For example, if you live on the West side near the Oak Park Green line station and want to get to O'hare, you would have to go downtown via the green line then transfer to the blue line and so on.
Not sure why LA couldn't have done something similar meaning instead of everyone transferring to the Crenshaw line, it could've been just one continuous line that broke off at Crenshaw and Expo and just kept going to the airport.