Free Rides Across Metro System This Weekend

Regional Connector Map (Photo – metro.net)

Free rides from 3:00 am Friday through 3:00 am Monday on all Metro buses, trains, Metro Bike and Metro Micro.

By News Desk

Celebrate the debut of the new A and E Lines, 3 new stations, and the opening of the Regional Connector!  The new A and E light rail lines, under construction for much of the last decade , made their debut on Friday, June 16, at noon when the Regional Connector and its three new underground stations in downtown Los Angeles opened to riders.

To celebrate this milestone project, Metro is offering free rides from 3:00 am Friday through 3:00 am Monday on all Metro buses, trains, Metro Bike and Metro Micro. Commuters are invited to ride as much as they like and enjoy the many destinations they can reach via Metro across L.A. County.

What’s new

The Regional Connector ties together the A, E and L Lines. As a result, those three lines will become two lines:

• The new A Line will run between Azusa and Long Beach. (On maps, the A Line will retain the color blue).
• The new E Line will run between East Los Angeles and Santa Monica. (On maps, the E Line will use the color gold).
• It will be easy to transfer between the A and E Lines at any of the five DTLA stations they’ll share: Pico, 7th/Metro, Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill (at 2nd and Hope), Historic Broadway (at 2nd and Broadway) and Little Tokyo/Arts District (at 1st and Alameda). Just step off one train and get on the next. No need to walk to a different platform.
• There’s a new A Line schedule and a new E Line schedule.
• Trains on both lines will run every 10 minutes at weekday peak hours, every 12 minutes the rest of the day and during weekend daytime hours, and every 20 minutes in early mornings and later in the evenings.
• Riders coming from Azusa (Pasadena) and East L.A. will no longer have to transfer to the subway at Union Station to reach the heart of Downtown L A (DTLA). Riders can stay on the A or the E Line and now ride directly into the heart of DTLA.

The B and D Lines aren’t changing — and commuters will continue to find the subway useful to reach their destinations in DTLA or beyond. One can transfer between the A Line and the B/D Lines at 7th/Metro or Union Station, and transfer between the E Line and B/D Lines at 7th/Metro.

Source: metro.net