Orange Line Press Conference TODAY at 1

 

NEWS FROM ZEV YAROSLAVSKY

Contact: Joel Bellman                                                                         Date: 7/9/08

Telephone: (213) 974-3333                                                                    http://zev.la,county.gov

 

- MEDIA ADVISORY – MEDIA ADVISORY -

 

 

WHO:              SUPERVISOR ZEV YAROSLAVSKY, Metro San Fernando Valley Service Sector General Manager Richard Hunt

 

WHAT:            Will announce dramatic and record-setting ridership increase on Valley’s Metro Orange Line busway. Last month's ridership was the highest since the line opened in October 2005. New records were set across the board for daily, monthly and weekend ridership. Yaroslavsky will detail the figures at the press conference.

 

WHERE:        Metro Orange Line North Hollywood Station

5373 N. Lankershim Blvd. (Chandler Blvd. / Lankershim Blvd.)
North Hollywood

Thomas Guide p. 562, J-2

 

WHEN:           Wednesday, July 9, 2008 (TODAY)

                        1:00 p.m.

 

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EDITORS’ BACKGROUND: Metro’s Orange Line busway opened in October 2005, and was an instant success, immediately outpacing its initial ridership projections. Since then, the line has proved its continuing popularity with Valley commuters, and a UC Berkeley transportation study even credited the Orange Line with reducing freeway traffic on the Ventura Freeway. Running 14 miles and including 13 stations from Warner Center and North Hollywood, the line was completed on time and under budget, built in less than four years at a lower cost than a single mile of subway.