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Expo Line Opening Delayed. Again.
Expo Line map (Metro)
Hey, guess what? The Expo Line's opening has been delayed. Again! Now it is semantics and technical issues hanging up the light rail--err, subway?--line.
The L.A. Times reports that "a test ride last week showed how a spot of bad circuitry and a debate over six-letter words — "subway," "tunnel" and "trench" — continue to delay the system's operation."
At issue is a 0.6-mile segment of the line that some say is a trench, and others say is a subway tunnel. It matters because if it is the latter, special ventilation is required.
Another issue needing a fix are signals not going through properly in one area. Those signals verify the trains are moving at the correct speed.
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No official would comment this week on what specific date the Expo Line would open. (It's not a huge surprise: They wouldn't set a date last month, either. Probably not a bad idea to keep evasive, since they've not been right yet about any of the target opening dates.)
And so we wait.
In the meantime, Curbed LA has a funny look back at other Expo Line opening dates that have come, and gone, without the line opening.
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