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Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Did residents actually use the B-Line service? CATA reveals cost and numbers
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (WTAJ) – The Bellefonte/Benner B-Line will be out of service starting July 1, but how popular was it in the first place? The B-Line was introduced as a stripped back service to try to appease the financial needs of both Bellefonte and CATA. It seemed like council would not be renewing the contract months ago, but the official decision did not come until this week. 'There's been a lot of conversations and, unfortunately, we couldn't fit the need and what they're looking at financially,' CATA Chief Operating Officer Derek Sherman said. Sherman says the overall trip cost for the B-Line was about $42. Bellefonte's contribution took off about $9 to $10 per trip, with customers paying a $4 fare. This led CATA to eating about $30 of the cost per trip. For Bellefonte, that price is still too high despite the number of people actually using the service. 'Right now we operate on a monthly basis, anywhere from about 270, we've peaked at 350 for a month,' Sherman said. 'So we have people utilizing the service.' The borough's solution is to use the county's van service, which Dorothy Neff, a B-Line rider and member of Bellefonte's former Transportation Task Force, is not against. 'I think the idea with the county van service, I'm rather receptive to that,' Neff said. But, the plans for how that service will work and what it will cost are still unknown. For now, CATA plans to try and make the transition smooth and Sherman says they are always willing to try negotiating again. 'It is now for us to help our passengers transition over to the new service so they can have a very smooth transition from the B-Line over to what the county services are going to be running,' he said. To stay updated on the B-Line service before it ends, visit CATA's website. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Metro D Line will be closed for 70 days, starting May 17
The Metro D line, also known as the Purple Line, will soon be closed for 70 days as construction continues on the rail expansion project beneath Wilshire Boulevard. Service on the route will be suspended at all stops from Union Station to Wilshire/Western from May 17 to July 25. B Line service — which shares stops from Union Station to Wilshire/Vermont — will increase from North Hollywood to downtown to accommodate riders. Shuttle service will be provided for the last leg of the line to connect riders to Koreatown from Wilshire/Vermont to Wilshire/Normandie and Wilshire/Western stations. The project will add seven stations and expand service on the line from Koreatown to Hancock Park, Beverly Hills, Westwood and West L.A. broke ground more than a decade ago. It's faced delays over safety concerns and received pushback from some Westside residents. Metro's goal is to finish the project by the 2028 Olympics, but hundreds of millions of dollars promised by the federal government for the project have not yet been delivered. Rep. Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), who sits on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and recently toured the rail project, also warned that tariffs affecting the cost of materials could pose new obstacles to infrastructure projects. The current route is one of Metro's most heavily used. Ridership numbers for the B Line and D Line, which Metro combines, were more than 1.8 million in March. The first $3.7 billion phase of the extension under Wilshire Boulevard will include three stations — Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega. Those are expected to open by the end of 2025. Tunneling is complete for that section, according to Metro. Tracks have been laid and lighting has been installed. The transit agency will next work on connecting communication and power systems between the existing line and new sections during the upcoming service interruption. The next phase of the project will include Wilshire/Rodeo and Century City/Constellation stations, which are expected to open in 2026. The final section to create the Westwood/UCLA and Westwood/VA Hospital stations are planned for a 2027 opening. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
08-05-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
Metro D Line will be closed for 70 days, starting May 17
The Metro D line, also known as the Purple Line, will soon be closed for 70 days as construction continues on the rail expansion project beneath Wilshire Boulevard. Service on the route will be suspended at all stops from Union Station to Wilshire/Western from May 17 to July 25. B Line service — which shares stops from Union Station to Wilshire/Vermont — will increase from North Hollywood to downtown to accommodate riders. Shuttle service will be provided for the last leg of the line to connect riders to Koreatown from Wilshire/Vermont to Wilshire/Normandie and Wilshire/Western stations. The $2.4-billion project to add seven stations and expand service on the line from Koreatown to Hancock Park, Beverly Hills, Westwood and West L.A. broke ground more than a decade ago. It's faced delays over safety concerns and received pushback from some Westside residents. Metro's goal is to finish the project by the 2028 Olympics, but hundreds of millions of dollars promised by the federal government for the project have not yet been delivered. Rep. Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), who sits on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and recently toured the rail project, also warned that tariffs affecting the cost of materials could pose new obstacles to infrastructure projects. The current route is one of Metro's most heavily used. Ridership numbers for the B Line and D Line, which Metro combines, were more than 1.8 million in March. The first phase of the extension under Wilshire Boulevard will include three stations — Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega. Those are expected to open by the end of 2025. Tunneling is complete for that section, according to Metro. Tracks have been laid and lighting has been installed. The transit agency will next work on connecting communication and power systems between the existing line and new sections during the upcoming service interruption. The next phase of the project will include Wilshire/Rodeo and Century City/Constellation stations, which are expected to open in 2026. The final section to create the Westwood/UCLA and Westwood/VA Hospital stations are planned for a 2027 opening.
Time Out
07-05-2025
- Time Out
Metro is shutting down the D Line for 70 days to prepare for its Westside subway expansion
Four miles of new subway tracks will completely transform how Angelenos can commute to and from parts of the Westside by the end of this year. The first phase of Metro's D Line extension, slated to open later in 2025, will extend service underneath Wilshire Boulevard from Koreatown to just past the Beverly Hills border—and eventually as far west as UCLA. But transit riders, particularly those in K-town, will have to tolerate a couple months of commuting pain before we can get there: Metro announced that it'll temporarily close the entire D Line (formerly known as the Purple Line) for 70 days, starting on Saturday, May 17 at 9pm through the end of service on Friday, July 25, in order to connect its current terminus at Wilshire/Western with three upcoming stations to the west. The D Line is the shortest of Metro's half-dozen rail lines, and of its eight stops, the six in Downtown L.A. and Westlake are shared with the B Line (Red). Thankfully, that means all of those stations will continue to have rail service during the closure due to the DTLA-to-North Hollywood B Line. In Downtown L.A. specifically, Metro says you can expect trains to increase from every 12 minutes to every 8 minutes (until 7pm on weekdays and after 7am on weekends). But it's a much different story for the two stops west of there in Koreatown: Wilshire/Western and Wilshire/Normandie. With those two stations completely out of service, Metro will instead operate a temporary 855 bus, which will follow the B Line schedule and take riders as far east as Wilshire/Vermont. Alternatively, you can rely on the existing 720 or 20 bus routes (or take a roughly half-mile walk between each stop). Metro says it'll be using the 70-day closure to connect all of the rail, communication and power systems between the existing D Line and the upcoming extension. After the work is wrapped up in July, the next major milestone will be the still-to-be-announced opening date of the three new stations: Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega. We included the D Line extension in our list of 'things to look forward to in L.A. in 2025,' and it's easy to see why once you look at the locations of the new stops it'll add: at Wilshire and La Brea, about a half block down from République; at Wilshire and Fairfax, right next to the Petersen Automotive Museum and across the street from LACMA and the Academy Museum; and at Wilshire and La Cienega, just over the Beverly Hills border and near the Saban Theatre. After that, the line will expand to near Rodeo Drive and at the edge of Century City in 2026, and by UCLA and the VA in 2027. The D Line isn't the only major Metro project in 2025: The A Line will continue its San Gabriel Valley expansion with stations in Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne and Pomona later this year, and the C and K Line's LAX/Metro Transit Center station
