The following excerpt appeared in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune on September 30, 2016. Click here to read the full article.
Here’s a glimpse of what the Gold Line train from Glendora to Montclair will look like – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Azusa Station used for transportation by many students attending Azusa Pacific and Citrus College.The City of Azusa and Glendora officially opened its extension of Citrus Avenue Monday September, 19, 2016. The extension provides a direct connection to the APU/Citrus College Gold Line station so drivers and pedestrians don’t have to take a long, winding path through Rosedale.(Photo by Walt Mancini/Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
By Steve Scauzillo
September 30, 2016
[Excerpt]:
Engineering plans for a 12.3-mile extension of the Gold Line from Glendora to Montclair were approved by the train construction authority’s board of directors and were released for public review Friday.
The 700-page document — completed after two years at a cost $15 million — outlines the alignment of two new light-rail tracks, plus the location and design of six future stations and parking facilities, 24 grade-separation bridges and 24 street crossings.
Six cities on the route: Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne, Pomona, Claremont and Montclair have 60 days to comment on the preliminary plans. Regional transportation agencies, including the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), also will send comments.
“It is a huge milestone. You can’t go into procurement unless you have this document to put before a contractor,” explained Habib Balian, chief executive officer of the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority.
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Can’t Metro or the Gold Line authority convince the owners of the property adjacent and directly north of the existing Citrus station parking to sell this small parcel of land and build another parking structure? These 200 parking spaces are now all taken by 5:30 am and this won’t get better only worse, even when this new extension is completed.
I’ve tried to address the situation that there are WAY too few parking spaces in the existing parking garages for the communities that are served on the east end of the Gold Line (this is a whole other important topic) by riding my bike from home to the station and then to work……Are there any plans to design a better way for bike commuters to ride on the train with their bikes? The space on the train for bikes is poorly designed, as you can really only fit 1 bike in the space (because there is no way to secure the bike, and the rider must stand there to hold the bike). Also, during rush hour, most commuters will stand in the space where the bikes are supposed to go, and when the train rolls into the station, I stand there trying to figure out how I will be able to load myself and my bike into that crowded train car, subsequently having to let trains go past – as there is just NO way to put myself on the train WITH my bike….some kind of rack designated to place bikes in the space would be extremely helpful.