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The initial line in the San Diego Trolley system, the Blue Line first opened between Centre City San Diego and San Ysidro on July 26, 1981, [4] [12] at a cost of $86 million (equivalent to $288 million in 2023), using the existing tracks of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, which the Metropolitan Transit Development Board had purchased from Southern Pacific on August 20, 1979, for $18 ...
Although the current Blue Line ends at San Ysidro Transit Center, just north of the Mexico–United States border, future plans for the Blue Line to continue into Tijuana are awaiting approval. If it is to be made, the Blue Line would be extended 1 mile [72] or 1.5 miles [73] on an elevated trackage [74] into a new Tijuana station. [75]
The current operating company of the San Diego Trolley system, San Diego Trolley Incorporated (SDTI), was not founded until 1980 [2] when the Metropolitan Transit Development Board (now operating as San Diego's MTS) began to plan a light-rail service along the Main Line of the former San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway (SD&AE Railway), which the MTDB purchased from the Southern Pacific ...
Low-floor vehicles started operating on the Orange Line in 2013 and on the Blue Line in 2015. In 2011, MTS opened the Silver Line, which operates renovated PCC streetcars around downtown San Diego in partnership with the San Diego Historic Streetcar Society. MTS introduced its network of bus rapid transit routes in June 2014.
Old Town also operates as a bus transit center for San Diego Metropolitan Transit System's routes 8, 9, 10, 28, 30, 35, 44, 83, 88, and 105. [15] There is an underground pedestrian tunnel linking bus terminals on both sides of the station with the trolley/train areas.
San Ysidro Transit Center is a San Diego Trolley station in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California.The station is the southern terminus of the Blue Line and is located on a short rail spur off the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway main line which hosts the Blue Line to downtown San Diego.
VA Medical Center station is a San Diego Trolley station in San Diego, California, elevated and adjacent to the Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, a Veterans Affairs hospital next to UC San Diego. [4] Service began on November 21, 2021 [3] after the completion of the Blue Line Mid-Coast Trolley extension project. [5] [6]
Balboa Avenue Transit Center is a San Diego Trolley station in San Diego. The station is located along Balboa Avenue between Interstate 5 and Morena Boulevard. [6] Service began on November 21, 2021 [5] after the completion of the Blue Line Mid-Coast Trolley extension project. [7]