LOS ANGELES : LACTC Agrees to Change Name of Orange Line
Bowing to a request from Orange County officials, the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission has decided to stop calling its east-west subway the Orange Line.
By dropping orange from its palette of rail lines, the LACTC has made it possible for its counterpart in Santa Ana--the Orange County Transportation Authority--to use it for an elevated rail line proposed to run across Orange County.
What used to be called the Orange Line in Los Angeles--a new name has not been chosen--is the east-west branch of the Red Line subway. The core of the Red Line will run in a generally north-south configuration from downtown to North Hollywood.
The first segment of the Red Line is scheduled to open in March, while the first segment of the no-longer-Orange Line is scheduled to start running in 1996. The Metro Blue Line from Long Beach to Los Angeles opened in 1990, and the El Segundo-to-Norwalk Green Line is scheduled to open in 1994.
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