Description of the Project

Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Blue Line (Line) will run approximately 13.6 miles from Los Angeles to Pasadena, and will be similar to the Los Angeles to Long Beach Blue Line, which has been in operation since 1990. The fourteen consolidated applications cover 61 crossings in the Cites of Los Angeles, Pasadena and South Pasadena in the County of Los Angeles. The Line will begin at Los Angeles Union Pacific Terminal (LAUPT), which is the largest train station in Southern California, serving Amtrak inter-city trains, Metrolink commuter trains, and the Red Line subway. From LAUPT it will run on aerial construction on exclusive right-of-way northward along Vignes Street and across intervening streets to a location north of College Street and east of Broadway. The Line will transition from aerial structure to ground level and continue northward on exclusive right-of-way to the approach of a new reinforced concrete bridge constructed across the Los Angeles River and the railroads that exist on its west and east banks in accordance with Decisions (D.) 95-02-030 dated February 8, 1995 (Application (A.) 94-08-034) and D. 95-01-043 dated January 24, 1995 (A.94-08-051). The Line will continue on exclusive right-of-way across the new bridge and northward along the former right-of-way of The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's (AT&SF) Pasadena Subdivision, now owned by the Authority, to Avenue 33 in Los Angeles. Then it will continue northward on approximately 1.9 miles of semi-exclusive right-of-way in the City of Los Angeles. It will transition to street-running alignment along Marmion Way for approximately one half mile in the City of Los Angeles, then continue on approximately 4.2 miles of semi-exclusive right-of-way in the cities of Los Angeles and South Pasadena to a point across Del Mar Boulevard in the City of Pasadena. Included in this segment is the Arroyo Seco Bridge across State Route 110, subject of D. 95-09-067 dated September 7, 1995 (A.94-11-027). The Line will continue northward on exclusive right-of-way for approximately 5 miles to the median of the I-210 Freeway and eastward within the median to the eastern boundary of the City of Pasadena.