LA Metro will be suspending service on its A Line light-rail in eastern Los Angeles County between four stations this weekend, so crews can begin linking up the line to a new 9.1-mile extension that will reach north Pomona.
The transit agency will temporarily suspend A Line service between Monrovia and APU/Citrus College stations for construction work, as part of the agency’s collaboration with the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority, which is nearly finished building a light-rail extension between Glendora and Pomona in the foothills of San Gabriel Valley.
The following Metro A Line stations will be closed during the weekend:
Duarte/City of Hope, Irwindale, Azusa Downtown and APU/Citrus College. Metro will provide replacement shuttle bus service — known as a “bus bridge” — to and from these stations during the closures.
The temporary closure between Monrovia and APU/Citrus College Stations starts at 9 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, and ends at 3 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 9.
In addition, on Sunday, Dec. 8, from 2 a.m. to noon only, Metro will extend its bus bridge from the line’s Sierra Madre Villa Station in East Pasadena to APU/Citrus College Station on the Azusa/Glendora border, in order to accommodate additional construction work.
In order to continue linking the operating line to the new extension, more closures are expected on the A Line the weekend of Dec. 13 to Dec. 15. At that time, LA Metro will provide a bus bridge to help riders move across the gap. Specific times for that closure were not yet available.
A map of the current Foothill Gold Line and extensions hangs in the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority board room in Monrovia on Thursday Nov. 14, 2024. The Glendora-to-Pomona extension will be completed in January, with revenue service expected a few months after that. The extension into Claremont and Montclair recently received funding and a contractor will be chosen next month. (Photo by Keith Durflinger, Contributing Photographer)
The new extension will run from the APU/Citrus College Station to Pomona and includes new Metro A Line stations in the cities of Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne and Pomona and is anticipated to open in early 2025, Metro reported. Test trains have been running on the extension since summer.
A second construction segment that will extend the Metro A Line to Claremont and across county lines to Montclair in San Bernardino County was awarded funding that was accepted in November. A bid from the contractor, Kiewit Infrastructure Engineers, is expected in January.
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