Metro plan could add delays for South Bay light-rail riders
Passengers board the Metro Green Line at the Marine Redondo Beach station. Photo Under a proposal that will come before the Metro Board Thursday, the Metro Green line could get shorter, a decision that would impose a second transfer and potentially added time for South Bay riders heading to downtown Los Angeles. Thursday Metro Board of Directors meeting includes an item with a service plan for linking the existing Green Line and the Crenshaw Line, which will open in fall 2019. The two lines will intersect near the Los Angeles International Airport, and the flow of trains in multiple directions prompted Metro to reconsider what the service will look like in the future. The Crenshaw Line is projected to terminate between the existing Mariposa and Aviation Green Line stations at a new station, tentatively named Century/Aviation. (A future station at 96th Street, which would link rail passengers to the airport via a people mover, is scheduled to open in 2023.) As recently as last month, Metro officials said they were unsure what the connection would look like. Then last week, a Metro staff report debuted two possible options: one would link the Crenshaw line with the portion of the…
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