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Metrolink (Southern California)
Metrolink is a commuter rail system in Southern California, serving Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties, as well as to Oceanside in San Diego County. The system consists of eight lines and 69 stations operating on of track. This includes Arrow, which Metrolink operates under a contract with the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA). In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Metrolink connects with Los Angeles County's Metro Rail and Metro Busway systems, North County Transit District's Coaster commuter rail and Sprinter hybrid rail services, and with Amtrak's '' Pacific Surfliner'', '' Coast Starlight'', ''Southwest Chief'', '' Sunset Limited'', and '' Texas Eagle'' inter-city rail services. Metrolink owns several hundred miles of track; however, it also shares track with freight railroads. The system, founded in 1991 as the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA) and adoptin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metrolink Logo 2022
Metrolink, MetroLink, or Metro-link is the name of several transport services throughout the world: Australia *Metro-link Bus Lines, a bus operator in Sydney, New South Wales *TransdevTSL, formerly known as MetroLink, former joint venture between Transdev and Transfield Services **Transdev Brisbane Ferries, formerly known as Metrolink Queensland, a ferry operator in Brisbane, Queensland **Yarra Trams, MetroLink Victoria, former operator of Yarra Trams in Melbourne, Victoria *Sydney Metro (2008 proposal), also known as Metro Link *Metlink, a public transport governing body in Melbourne, Australia Canada *Metrolinx, a public transport governing body in Southern Ontario, Canada *MetroLink (Halifax), a bus rapid transit service in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia India *Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad, a rapid transit system for the cities of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar Ireland *MetroLink (Dublin), a proposed metro line in Dublin city. New Zeal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Bernardino County, California
San Bernardino County ( ), officially the County of San Bernardino and sometimes abbreviated as S.B. County, is a County (United States), county located in the Southern California, southern portion of the U.S. state of California, and is located within the Inland Empire area. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 2.18 million, making it the fifth-most populous county in California and the List of the most populous counties in the United States, 14th-most populous in the United States. The county seat is San Bernardino, California, San Bernardino. While included within the Greater Los Angeles area, San Bernardino County is included in the Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario metropolitan statistical area. With an area of , San Bernardino County is the List of the largest counties in the United States by area, largest county in the contiguous United States by area, although some of List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska, Alaska's boroughs and census areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwest Chief
The ''Southwest Chief'' (formerly the ''Southwest Limited'' and ''Super Chief'') is a Amtrak Long Distance, long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a route between Chicago and Los Angeles through the Midwest and American Southwest, Southwest via Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff, Arizona, Flagstaff mostly on the BNSF's Southern Transcon, but branches off between Albuquerque and Kansas City via the Topeka, La Junta Subdivision, La Junta, Raton Pass, Raton, and Glorieta Pass, Glorieta Subdivision. Amtrak bills the route as one of its most scenic, with views of the Painted Desert (Arizona), Painted Desert and the Red Cliffs of Sedona, Arizona, Sedona, as well as the plains of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado. During fiscal year 2023, the ''Southwest Chief'' carried 253,838 passengers, a 13.5% increase from FY2022. However, this is a 25% decrease from its pre-COVID-19 pandemic ridership of 338,180 passenger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coast Starlight
The ''Coast Starlight'' is a Amtrak Long Distance, long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on the West Coast of the United States between Seattle and Los Angeles via Portland, Oregon, Portland and the San Francisco Bay Area. The train, which has operated continuously since Amtrak's formation in 1971, was the first to offer direct service between Seattle and Los Angeles. Its name is a combination of two prior Southern Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific (SP) trains, the ''Coast Daylight (SP train), Coast Daylight'' and the ''Starlight''. During fiscal year (FY) 2024, the ''Coast Starlight'' carried 359,432 passengers, an increase of 6.3% from FY 2023. In FY 2024, the train made 730 trips and 1 million train miles; it had a total revenue of $49.5 million, and operating expenses of $93.9 million. History Background Before the formation of Amtrak, no passenger train ran the entire length of the West Coast of the United States, West Coast. The closest equiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Surfliner
The ''Pacific Surfliner'' is a passenger train service serving the communities on the coast of Southern California between San Diego and San Luis Obispo. The ''Pacific Surfliner'' is Amtrak's third-busiest service (exceeded in ridership only by the ''Northeast Regional'' and ''Acela''), and the busiest outside the Northeast Corridor. Like all regional trains in California, the ''Pacific Surfliner'' is operated by a joint powers authority. The LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency is governed by a board that includes eleven elected representatives from the six counties the train travels through. LOSSAN contracts with the Orange County Transportation Authority to provide day-to-day management of the service and with contracts with Amtrak to operate the service and maintain the rolling stock (locomotives and passenger cars). The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) provides the funding to operate the service and also owns all of the locomotives and some of the rolling stock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprinter (rail Service)
Sprinter (stylized in all caps) is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) service operating in the North County area of San Diego County between the cities of Escondido and Oceanside, California, United States. The service uses the Escondido Subdivision of the San Diego Northern Railroad. Station platforms were constructed for the line's fifteen stations serving the cities of Oceanside, Vista, San Marcos, and Escondido. The line provides service to California State University, San Marcos and Palomar College. Sprinter service operates every 30 minutes and is targeted towards students and commuters. Sprinter is operated by the North County Transit District, the area's public transit agency. The agency also operates the Coaster commuter rail service and the Breeze transit bus services. At Oceanside Transit Center, Sprinter connects to three commuter rail services (Coaster and the Metrolink Orange County and Inland Empire–Orange Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coaster (rail Service)
Coaster (stylized in all caps) is a commuter rail service in the central and North County, San Diego, northern coastal regions of San Diego County, California, United States, operated by the North County Transit District (NCTD). The commuter rail line features eight stops, with a travel time of about one hour and one minute end-to-end. The service operates seven days a week except nights, with slightly greater frequency during weekday peak periods. Coaster first entered service on February 27, 1995, and has since grown in ridership and capacity. In , the line had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . History The North San Diego County Transit Development Board was created in 1975 to consolidate and improve transit in northern San Diego County. Planning began for a San Diego–Oceanside commuter rail line, then called Coast Express Rail, in 1982. Funding for right-of-way acquisition and construction costs came from TransNet, a 1987 measure that imposed a 0.5% sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Metro Busway
The Los Angeles Metro Busway (previously known as Metro Liner and Metro Transitway) is a system of bus rapid transit (BRT) routes that operate primarily along exclusive or semi-exclusive roadways known locally as a busway or transitway. There are currently two lines serving List of Los Angeles Metro Busway stations, 29 stations (not including street stops) in the system: the G Line (Los Angeles Metro), G Line in the San Fernando Valley, and the J Line (Los Angeles Metro), J Line, serving El Monte, California, El Monte, Downtown Los Angeles, Gardena, California, Gardena, and San Pedro, Los Angeles, San Pedro. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) operates the Metro Busway system. The G Line, which runs along an exclusive busway, was the first route in the system to open on October 29, 2005. The J Line opened on December 13, 2009, utilizing the pre-existing Harbor Transitway and El Monte Busway, semi-exclusive roadways that are used by both buses and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Metro Rail
The Los Angeles Metro Rail is an urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County, California, United States, consisting of six lines: four light rail lines (the A, C, E and K lines) and two rapid transit lines (the B and D lines), serving a total of 103 stations. The system connects with the Metro Busway bus rapid transit system (the G and J lines), the Metrolink commuter rail system, as well as several Amtrak lines. Metro Rail is owned and operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro). Metro Rail has been extended significantly since it started service in 1990, and several further extensions are either in the works or being considered. In , the system had a ridership of or about per weekday as of . Metro Rail operates the busiest light rail system in the United States. Los Angeles had two previous rail transit systems, the Pacific Electric Red Car and Los Angeles Railway Yellow Car lines, which operated between the lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Bernardino County Transportation Authority
The San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) is the successor to San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG). They are responsible for administering the Measure I half-cent tax which voters in San Bernardino County, California, passed most recently in 2004. The SBCTA conducts transportation planning, construction, and operation in San Bernardino County. The SBCTA is a joint powers authority comprising the entire county and its cities. Every city and county supervisor is provided one seat on the board, and it also includes a nonvoting member from the California Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) District 8. History In 2016, Senate bill 1305, consolidated five different transit agencies into SBCTA. Those agencies were County Transportation Commission, County Transportation Authority, Service Authority for Freeway Emergencies, Congestion Management Agency, and Subregional Planning Agency. In 2019, SBCTA mulled direct takeover of Omnitrans due to its 520 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrow (rail Service)
Arrow is a hybrid rail (light rail with some features similar to commuter rail) service in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Opened on October 24, 2022, the line runs from the San Bernardino Transit Center in Downtown San Bernardino in the west to the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, Redlands in the east. The line was planned and constructed by the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority as the Redlands Passenger Rail Project and is operated under contract by Metrolink (California), Metrolink, which integrates Arrow into its commuter rail system, making it the only line in the entire Metrolink system to be entirely in San Bernardino County and also became the second line not to serve Los Angeles Union Station nor cross the Los Angeles River since the opening of the Inland Empire–Orange County Line in October 1995. This is the first and only Metrolink line to utilize completely different rolling stock than the rest of the system. Operati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Metrolink (California) Stations
Metrolink (California), Metrolink is the commuter rail system serving the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California. The system is governed by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA) and operated under contract by Amtrak, serving five counties in the region—Orange County, California, Orange, Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles, Riverside County, California, Riverside, San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino, and Ventura County, California, Ventura—as well as the city of Oceanside, California, Oceanside in San Diego County, California, San Diego County. The network consists of 69 stations along eight lines, with a total route length of . Arrow (rail service), Arrow is operated under a contract with the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA). Lines Stations Closed stations Future stations Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Metrolink Metrolink (California) stations, * Lists of commuter rail stations Lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
