Rail corridor could connect downtown Los Angeles with Los Angeles International Airport and Long Beach via a C-shaped curve through the county

MTA schedules meetings on South Bay transit corridor - The Daily Breeze

MTA schedules meetings on South Bay transit corridor
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Posted: 04/06/2009 05:42:55 PM PDT

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Eds: Rick Jager, Metro spokesman, can be reached at (213) 922-2707.

LOS ANGELES - The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will hold five community meetings over the next four weeks to gather public input about a planned public transit service through southwest Los Angeles County.

Metro officials are evaluating the possibility of expanding the county's transit network along a 26-mile-long freight rail corridor that the agency purchased in the early 1990s.

The corridor stretches from Vernon and Huntington Park west through South Los Angeles to Inglewood, then south through El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Lawndale, Torrance and Carson.

Transit through the corridor could connect downtown Los Angeles with Los Angeles International Airport and Long Beach via a C-shaped curve through the county, according to a Metro map of the proposal.

Metro will gather public input on various transit options for the corridor, including a Bus Rapid Transit system, a light rail line and dedicated bus lanes.

Public meetings to gather suggestions and comments about the proposal will be held at the following times and locations:

-- April 21 at 6 p.m. at the Boys and Girls Club of the Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro, 100 W. Fifth St.;

-- April 22 at 6 p.m. at the Redondo Beach Main Library, 303 Pacific Coast Highway;

-- April 27 at 6 p.m. at Inglewood City Hall, 1 Manchester Blvd.,
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in the community room;

-- April 30 at 11:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Water District in Los Angeles, 700 N. Alameda St., Room 2145;

-- and May 2 at 10 a.m. at Augustus Hawkins Nature Park in Los Angeles, 5790 Compton Ave. CNS-04-06-2009 17:23