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Lancaster officials move to shut down Metrolink station
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Sep 22, 2014
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Lancaster officials move to shut down Metrolink station
Citing a growing homeless population, Lancaster officials announced they want to shut down the only commuter train linking the city to Los Angeles.
File: A conductor steps down from the engine of a Metrolink train on Sept. 15, 2008 in Chatsworth.
File: A conductor steps down from the engine of a Metrolink train on Sept. 15, 2008 in Chatsworth.
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Citing a growing homeless population, Lancaster officials announced they want to shut down the only commuter train linking the city to Los Angeles.

Citing a growing homeless population, Lancaster officials announced they want to shut down the only commuter train linking the city to Los Angeles.

The city, about an hour and a half north of Los Angeles, is in the Antelope Valley where roughly 12 percent of the county’s homeless population reside, writes The California Reports' Steven Cuevas. "Officials claim that number grows by the day because of an alleged migration of train-hopping homeless people."

Read the full story: Citing Homeless Infusion, Lancaster Officials Move to Shutter Metrolink Station