Los Angeles Tries to Prove that It Doesn’t Necessarily Need the Car

These are iconic images of Los Angeles: the Hollywood sign, bumper-to-bumper traffic, red carpets rich with sequin-spangled starlets. One image that, until recently, came to almost no one’s mind was a railway. But the city is now trying to slough off the stereotype of being only for people who can tolerate spending most of their waking hours in a car, or who rage extravagantly against that fate. Late last month, the L.A. Metro opened an extension of the sky-blue Expo line (named after Exposition Boulevard, which it runs alongside), which now carries passengers from downtown to Santa Monica and the Pacific. The line is meant to serve more than sand-pail carriers. It links two of the city’s busiest business districts, downtown and the tech-startup-heavy community known as Silicon Beach, and makes stops in other spots populated with potential commuters, like the University of Southern California and restaurant strips in Culver City and the Palms.

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