Traffic control officers were deployed to ensure vehicular safety during the busway testing.
Metro Orange Line Extension testing is now in its third week. Buses continue to run intermittently on their very own dedicated right-of-way between Canoga Station and the Chatsworth Metrolink/Amtrak Station.
Metro reminds motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists to watch out for buses as they pass intersections to ensure a safe operation. (see this previous Source post). The extension is still on track for a June 2012 opening.
See Damien Newton’s post on Streetsblog, including video here.
Here are a few photos from the testing now in progress:
Metro Liner arrives at the Southbound Roscoe Station.
Metro Liner descends from the Lassen Street Bridge at the Chatsworth Station.
Metro Liner arrives at the Chatsworth Station.
Metro Liner heading southbound on the Lassen Street Bridge.
Pretty much the same bland emptiness as with all of our other stations; a bus station is a bus station and nothing else. No services, no retail, no benches, just a place where people stand and do nothing but wait for the bus.
@ Y Fukuzama. I would imagine there will be benches. No, Cirque de Soleil though.
What we need to be discussing is how to upgrade this to proper light rail.
@Y Fukuzawa Some NYC MTA stations have more than just waiting areas. Port Authority bus terminal has shops and eats too. LA Union Station does.
Since there is not an unlimited pool of money, I would say light-rail to West Hollywood or connecting the Green Line to Metrolink is way more imperative.
They still have a month’s worth of finish work to do, so be patient.
As far as upgrading to LRT, the first order of business is to repeal the Robbins law, which was largely done on the whim of an Orthodox Jewish community at the eastern section of the alignment. And they’ve been a bit on the quiet side, in spite of the fact that the Orange Line is a variation of what they were against.
I’ve heard the bridges were built with the weight of rail in mind so that is one encouraging thing.
this is going to make things so much easier on me once this opens.
My only comment is, why not add crossing arms to prevent cars from running into buses and to help the buses to go faster?
Forget light rail. Orange line-type of transit is economical, faster to develop, and easily expandable by adding more buses in service every few minutes.