We Took the Newly Revamped A Line All the Way to Azusa

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• A creative studio redefining the modern exhibition space
• Foothill Extension
• ‘Rivers in the sky’ have drenched California, yet even more extreme rains are possible
• It’s a work in progress but a great option if you’re looking for a car-free trip to Downtown LA
• More Travel, Right This Way
• Cold storm brings high winds, showers to California on Friday, but weekend to clear up
• Station listing

Construction is underway to extend the A Line further east to Pomona and Montclair. The investment also includes over $800 million in improvements to the I-15 corridor and involves agreements with several unions for skilled labor. The company will also construct three wildlife overpasses, in partnership with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and Caltrans for the safe passage of native species, primarily the bighorn sheep. On a recent weekday, I rode the whole stretch — which still takes about two hours one way — in relative peace. The AC is strong, the trains are mostly clean (sparkling, by New York City standards) and a wealth of aboveground stops means access to WiFi is only limited briefly in the new underground tunnels downtown. (Odds are, WiFi will be installed soon enough in these high-tech stations.) The Downtown corridor is definitely the busiest section of the service, but even when the train was at its fullest, it topped out at about 80 to 90% capacity.

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A creative studio redefining the modern exhibition space

As is the case with all uniform designs, testing on film and camera was done extensively. One thing that permeates all four uniforms focuses on the helmets. Leaning into the Houston car culture, all the helmets are gloss with metal flake. In a the right light, a Deep Steel Blue helmet will see the Battle Red in metal flake.

Foothill Extension

The Las Vegas and Southern California travel market is one of the nation’s most attractive corridors with over 50 million trips between the region each year. Additionally, Las Vegas continues to attract visitors from around the world, with 4.7 million international travelers flying into the destination. The city dubs itself on being the world’s No. 1 meeting destination, welcoming nearly 6 million people to the Las Vegas Convention Center last year. AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports on the development of a high-speed rail between two major West coast cities. “I believe we’ll look back at today and say, ’This was the birth of an industry of high-speed rail,’” Brightline Holdings founder Wes Edens said Monday. The irresistible tidal pull of California style is imbued in these decorative ceramics.

‘Rivers in the sky’ have drenched California, yet even more extreme rains are possible

The station will be co-located with existing multi-modal transportation options including California Metrolink, for seamless connectivity to Downtown Los Angeles and other locations in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. The Rancho Cucamonga Station is approximately 80,000 square feet plus parking. The A Line is the oldest and busiest light rail line in the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, carrying an average of 60,423 riders on weekdays in October 2023. Its initial segment from Long Beach to Downtown Los Angeles opened in 1990, using much of the original right-of-way of the Long Beach Line, a former Pacific Electric interurban line. The line became heavily used, prompting the implementation of capacity and reliability improvements throughout its alignment. A plan to extend the line north to Pasadena in the San Gabriel Valley surfaced in the 1980s but was canceled due to funding constraints.

When Taylor Swift released “The Tortured Poets Department,” on Friday at midnight, her fan base quickly got to work decoding the album, looking for layers of meaning and insight into Ms. Swift’s life. In California, approximately 17 million Southern California residents are within 25 miles of the Brightline West station sites. Studies show that one out of every three visits to Las Vegas come from Southern California. Brightline received Biden administration backing including a $3 billion grant from federal infrastructure funds and recent approval to sell another $2.5 billion in tax-exempt bonds.

More Travel, Right This Way

For single family construction most cities and counties do not require that a plan is stamped by an engineer. Check with your local building official for the specific plan requirements in your area. The Vehicle Maintenance Facility (VMF) is a 200,000-square-foot building located on 238 acres in Sloan, Nev., and will be the base for daily maintenance and staging of trains. This site will also serve as one of two hubs for the maintenance of way operations and the operations control center. More than 100 permanent employees will report on a daily basis once operations begin and will serve as train crews, corridor maintenance crews, or operations control center teammates.

Cold storm brings high winds, showers to California on Friday, but weekend to clear up

The concrete structures are hardly dry at the new stations along the $752-million Long Beach Light Rail Line and the trains won’t start running until next summer. But already graffiti, vandalism and theft are major headaches. It has since become a microcosm of the community it serves as well as of the challenges and successes of mass transit in a metropolis where the car is king. The following is the complete list of stations, from north to south. In the design phase, you will work closely with our designers to develop a design concept.

Station listing

Officials hope the train line will relieve congestion on I-15, where drivers often sit in miles of crawling traffic while returning home to Southern California from a Las Vegas weekend. An average of more than 44,000 automobiles per day crossed the California-Nevada state line on I-15 in 2023, according to Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority data. The original plan called for the extension to end at Montclair in San Bernardino County, but budget challenges forced the construction authority to cut the line back to Pomona. The line's northern terminus is at APU/Citrus College station just west of Citrus Avenue and north of the two universities. The line runs west through Azusa before stopping at Azusa Downtown station at Azusa Avenue, north of Foothill Boulevard. Continuing west, the line crosses over the I-210 freeway and runs parallel to it, entering Irwindale before stopping at Irwindale station at Irwindale Avenue.

The northern extension was revived as part of the Regional Connector project in the early 2000s, and construction began in 2014. The project enabled A Line trains to run to the San Gabriel Valley via a new downtown tunnel connecting the A Line tracks to the L Line tracks. The A Line's current Azusa–Long Beach service was introduced in June 2023 with the opening of the Regional Connector, incorporating the Union Station–Pasadena–Azusa portion of the former L Line.

Brightline West will connect Las Vegas and Southern California with the first true high-speed passenger rail system in the nation. The 218-mile, all-electric rail service will include a flagship station in Las Vegas, with additional stations in Victor Valley and Rancho Cucamonga. At speeds up to 200 miles per hour, trains will take passengers from Las Vegas to Rancho Cucamonga in about two hours, twice as fast as the normal drive time. After Highland Park station, the line runs in the median of Marmion Way, where trains go at only 20 miles per hour (32 km/h).

The Gold Line (renamed the L Line in 2020) light rail line opened in 2003, completing part of the planned extension from Union Station to Pasadena. The Hesperia Station will be located within the I-15 median at the I-15/Joshua Street interchange and will function primarily as a local rail service for residents in the High Desert on select southbound morning and northbound evening weekday trains. Brightline West, whose sister company already operates a fast train between Miami and Orlando in Florida, aims to lay 218 miles (351 kilometers) of new track almost all in the median of Interstate 15 between Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga, California.

While the H may remind some of a modern Hip-Hop feel, it also is very reminiscent of the Old English font for Rice University. All of it plays back to Houston in obvious and subliminal ways. While the home and road uniforms see an even spread of Deep Steel Blue, Battle Red, Liberty White, and the H-TOWN Blue, the alternate design is a bold departure that still plays into the iconic Texans bullhead on the helmet. While all the team colors are used, jersey, pants and helmet are all primarily the Battle Red. Instead of the primary bullhead on the side, the helmet sees oversized horns that run from just above the face mask mount and up toward the top.

Player input showed that they favored how the helmet would appear to the opposing team when dropped down into their stance that had the horns facing the opposing team. While teams such as the Rams and Vikings have had horns, they have been religated to the sides rather than curving over the top. Brightline’s first rail system in Florida connecting Miami to Orlando began initial service between its South Florida stations in 2018.

According to Vosik, H-TOWN branded apparel accounted for 40% of total apparel sales in 2023. Tucked inside NRG Stadium, in the club’s largest conference room, the first updates to the Houston Texans uniforms since their inception in 2002 are laid out on the massive table. Helmet decals of different varieties are interspersed with a printout of the style guide showing color names with codes and textile types. Pages of contact sheets showing players modeling the uniforms are spread out.

Getting a seat wasn’t a problem, and equipped with headphones, the long ride was manageable — pleasant, even. The A and E Lines diverge at Flower Street and Washington Boulevard. E Line trains continue south along Flower Street, and the A Line turns east onto Washington Boulevard before turning south into the former Pacific Electric right-of-way at Long Beach Avenue. This historic rail corridor has four tracks, two for A Line trains and two for freight trains. Along the corridor, there are some flyovers to either eliminate grade crossings in more densely populated areas or pass over diverging freight tracks. Passengers can connect with the C Line at the Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station.

Fares are $1.75 for a one-way ticket, and no rider will pay more than $5 a day. For weekly passes, the cap is $18, and once either amount has been “tapped” for the day, all transfers register as free. Instead of designating unlimited passes, the system works similarly to New York’s free bus transfer setup, when a bus ride taken right after a subway trip comes at no additional cost. The line will also likely lead to more locals spending time Downtown, where parking has become completely untenable, and an ongoing influx of great cocktail bars makes taking the train a desirable option.