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Metro Set to Promote Ten Minute Late Night Trains for Red, Purple and Blue Lines

By Eric Richardson
Published: Wednesday, November 02, 2011, at 06:01PM
Metro Eric Richardson / blogdowntown

Email blast from Metro promoting a press conference for "More Trains More Often" service on the Red, Purple and Blue lines.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — During an appearance on the Patt Morrison show last week, Metro CEO Art Leahy .

He was serious: Metro will be holding a press conference on Monday to unveil "More Trains More Often," a service that will run trains on the Red, Purple and Blue lines every 10 minutes until midnight. Currently, trains on each line run every 20 minutes during that time. Service on all lines stops by 1am.

An email blast sent out this week invites those attending the press event to "dress to represent key late night venues in your area (i.e. waiter, chef, sports mascots or fans, shoppers holding bags, etc.)"

The service appears set to start the following week.

Downtown business owners banded together to fund late night Red Line service during the 2008 holiday season. The 20-minute service between 1am and 3am on Fridays and Saturdays attracted approximately 1000 riders per night, according to Metro.

Monday's press conference will be held at 9:30am at the Music Center.

Update (Thursday): Looks like the press conference got moved up to Monday, November 7.

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Dion on November 02, 2011, at 11:13PM – #1

Excellent! next step is train service till 3 am on thursday, friday and saturdays.


() on November 03, 2011, at 10:49AM – #2

This means that if you are traveling anywhere in or near Downtown (from Union Station to Vermont) - you will be able to hop onto a train - every five minutes until midnight.


Chris Loos on November 03, 2011, at 11:02AM – #3

Wow! No more bumpy trips on the 720 Rapid when I work late ever again.


Simon Hartigan on November 03, 2011, at 12:30PM – #4

This is excellent. I agree it needs to run much later. I know people could technically use the bus at that late hour, but it confuses people because they'd prefer to take rail and rail is probably how they got there, but will have to figure out a different way back. running them until 02-03:00 will be huge as it makes night life in LA very accessible, allowing us to continue efforts to remove cars from the road without effecting businesses.


Chris Loos on November 03, 2011, at 03:51PM – #5

I agree. And considering all the drunk driving that goes on between DTLA and Hollywood, later hours on the red line could literally save lives.


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Gregory Wright on November 08, 2011, at 06:12PM – #6

The Red, Gold, Blue and other urban rail lines should create digital LAST DEPARTURE TIME signs at every station, brightly visible at street level by both automotive passers-by and system riders, announcing the times of the last trains in both directions from that location.
Far more folks will try the trains and subways if they know the time they need to be back at the station to get home and not become stranded out in the city at night!
(I've been making this recommendation to MTA officials and local activists for years and have never received a squeak of a positive response, so I have no illusions this will happen soon, if at all; which is a pity, since it is such a good idea.)



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