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Part 2: Happy 20th birthday, L. A. Metro Blue Line |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Jul 14 20:52:10 2010, in response to Happy 20th birthday, L. A. Metro Blue Line, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Jul 14 20:35:36 2010. Now in Long Beach: It looks like the Long Beach PD cop is giving me the evil eye, but I suspect he was just keeping an eye on cross traffic. I know that he didn't say anything to me, may have not even seen me. Back then, no one was hung up on photography much anyway. This pic (in fact, I think all of the ones in this post) are at Long Beach Blvd/Anaheim St, the south terminal until the Saturday before Labor Day, 1990, when the loop stations opened.  Long Beach Transit painted 10 (3516-3525) of their 1979 35-foot RTS-03s to match the color scheme of the Blue Line cars. They were used on a free shuttle from Anaheim station covering the loop stops (5th/LB Blvd, 1st/LB Blvd, Transit Mall (1st/Pacific) and Pacific (5th/Pacific). Even after the loop open and the shuttle was discontinued, those buses kept those colors until their retirement a few years later.   RTD was well prepared, with plenty of buses for those who didn't want to brave the heat waiting for trains to return to L. A. I stuck it out, though :) (that second pic, I cropped so it looked like the last RTS had a pantograph of its own) :) I may have posted it here as a joke awhile back.    The Blue Line was a hit from the beginning. The original plan was to have free rides only for the opening weekend (7/14 & 7/15), however, there were so many people (some may have been turned away, or stayed away due to the extreme heat), RTD, in a rare wise move, extended the free period for the rest of July. Didn't mean much to me, as I had a monthly pass (though with the Blue Line opening, I just bought a base pass, rather than a 2-zone express pass that I used to ride the 446 to get to work at USC), but it was a great gesture. |
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