The MTA Gold Line is expected to begin operating in July. Dedication ceremonies
were held today for the Avenue 26 and Avenue 57 stations. The Gold Line was
originally going to be known as the Pasadena Blue Line because it was going to be a
northward extension of the Blue Line that runs between Long Beach and downtown Los
Angeles, but that would have required tunneling through downtown, and after the MTA's
experiences building the tunnel for the Red Line under Hollywood Boulevard, they
decided to skip the tunneling and use Union Station as the southern terminus of the
Pasadena Blue Line. Then they decided that it really didn't make sense to call it the
Pasadena Blue Line if it wasn't going to connect with the existing Blue Line, so they
came up with a new name. Once the Gold Line gets to the L.A. River, it follows the route of the old Santa Fe
line that was used by Amtrak until the mid-90s.
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