California Personal Injury Lawyers Blog
The Metro’s new Gold Line opened Saturday, March 5, 2016, with thousands riding it the first day through the San Gabriel Valley from Pasadena, Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale and Azusa. The Gold Line extension is 11.5 miles long, it cost one billion dollars, funded by Measure R. Measure R, with its half-cent sales tax rate, was approved in 2008 for transportation projects. It was reported in the L.A. Times that a one-way ride from Azusa to Union Station will cost $1.75 and take approximately 49 minutes.
With its 11.5 mile extension, the Gold Line is now 31 miles long and Los Angele County’s longest rail line. It was reported that about 3500 people each hour rode the new Gold Line this past Saturday. The only complaint heard was it should have been built years sooner.
It is anticipated that this gold Line extension will save commuters much time, money in transportation expenses and help free up the crowded 210 Freeway.
There are safety concerns, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has been hit by many claims and suits, including for its trains crashing into cars, trucks, pedestrians and one of our own cases, where our client was severely injured when a train car left the station as our client was attempting to board the train. Our client was severely injured, suffering a partial leg amputation and a Los Angeles jury awarded a multi million dollar judgment for our client.
Our Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, Inland Empire and California Metro Train, Car Accident, Wrongful Death and Personal Injury Lawyers provide FREE LEGAL CONSULTATIONS and CASE EVALUATIONS and our attorneys and legal team have successfully handled thousands of injury and wrongful death claims, with a success rate above 95%, including car accident and truck collision and train crash cases, resulting from negligence or other unsafe and dangerous actions and conditions throughout Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, the Inland Empire, Riverside and all of California. We have over 45 years of experience helping injured victims and their families. Should you or anyone you care about suffer any injury due to a train, car, truck, motorcycle or pedestrian accident, premises liability or the fault of another, or a family member be tragically killed due to the fault of another resulting in a wrongful death accident claim, anywhere in Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley or California, please contact our very experienced personal injury and wrongful death lawyers now so we may assist your family and you with proper investigation, preservation of evidence, medical care and financial recovery. You may contact us 24/7 at 818.222.3400 or 1.866 INJURY 2 (after hours, press “1”) for an absolutely FREE consultation and FREE case evaluation:
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