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"California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. Directions to Metro Union Station/Inside Union Station (PDF) (Map). Metro. November 2022. Link Union Station (Report). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. January 2019. p. 2-31.
The Los Angeles Metro Rail is an urban rail transit system in Los Angeles County, California, operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA or Metro). The system includes 102 metro stations with two rapid transit (known locally as a subway) and four light rail lines, covering 109 miles (175 km) of route ...
It will serve as the transfer point between Metro Rail and the LAX Automated People Mover (APM) serving the Los Angeles International Airport terminals and facilities. Additionally, the station will have connections to Metro Bus , other municipal bus lines, a customer service center, and a Metro Bike Share hub. [ 6 ]
These include a $1.6-billion project to update Terminals 4 and 5; a $477.5-million project to extend Terminal 1 and a $230-million project to improve Terminal 6 — all part of a $30-billion ...
On June 7, 1930, the facility was dedicated and renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport. [14] Los Angeles Municipal Airport on Army Day, c. 1931. The airport was used by private pilots and flying schools, but the city’s vision was that Los Angeles would become the main passenger hub for the area.
The basic layout of the airport dates back to 1958 when the architecture firm Pereira & Luckman was contracted to plan the re-design of the airport for the "jet age."The plan, developed with architects Welton Becket and Paul Williams, called for a series of terminals and parking structures in the central portion of the property, with these buildings connected at the center by a huge steel-and ...
The historic Pacific Electric Building (also known as the Huntington Building, after the railway’s founder, Henry Huntington, or simply 6th & Main), opened in 1905 in the core of Los Angeles as the main train station for the Pacific Electric Railway, as well as the company's headquarters; Main Street Station served passengers boarding trains for the south and east of Southern California.
Westchester began the 20th century as an agricultural area, growing a wide variety of crops in the dry, farming-friendly climate. The rapid development of the aerospace industry near Mines Field (as the Los Angeles Airport was then known), the move of then Loyola University to the area in 1928, and population growth in Los Angeles as a whole created a demand for housing in the area.