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The Transit Advocate How to join SO.CA.TA: Yearly dues are $30.00 cates. In all other cases, permission must be ($12.00 low income). Dues are prorated on a secured from the copyright holder. quarterly basis. Disclaimer: The Southern California Transit THE TRANSIT ADVOCATE Submission of materials: ALL materials for the Advocates is not affiliated with any governmental TRANSIT ADVOCATE newsletter go to Andrew agency or transportation provider. Names and Newsletter of the Southern California Transit Advocates Novak at P.O. Box 2383, Downey California 90242 logos of agencies appear for information and or to [email protected]. Please enclose a self reference purposes only. May 2011 Vol. 19, No. 05 ISSN 1525-2892 addressed stamped envelope for returns. SO.CA.TA officers, 2011 Newsletter deadlines are the Fridays a week President: Nate Zablen before SO.CA.TA meetings, at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Vice President: Kent Landfield time, unless otherwise announced. Recording Secretary: Dana Gabbard Executive Secretary: (VACANT) Opinions: Unless clearly marked as "Editorial" or Treasurer: Edmund Buckley "Position Paper", all written material within, Directors at Large: Ken Ruben including all inserted flyers and postcards, are the J.K. Drummond expressed opinions of the authors and not Dave Snowden necessarily that of the Southern California Transit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Advocates. Newsletter Editor: Andrew Novak Newsletter Prod. Mgr: Dana Gabbard Copyright: © 2011 Southern California Transit Webmaster: Charles Hobbs Advocates. Permission is freely granted to repro- th th duce/reprint ORIGINAL articles from the Transit NEXT SO.CA.TA MEETINGS : May 14 and June 11 at Angelus Plaza, 4th Floor, 255 S. Hill, Los Angeles Advocate, provided credit is given to both the au- thor and the Southern California Transit Advo- May 2011 — Issue 222 Southern California Transit Advocates 3010 Wilshire #362 Los Angeles, CA 90010 44¢ First 213-388-2364 Class http://www.socata.net Postage [email protected] FIRST CLASS MAIL Inside This Issue: Amtrak P42 156 at 8th Street Yard in Los Angeles on April 3, 2011. This is one of four P42’s that Amtrak has • Bulletin Board (pg. 2) painted in the railroad’s historic paint schemes. Unit • Members in Action (pg.2) 156 represents Amtrak’s first paint scheme. • Transit Updates (pg. 3) — Andrew Novak Photo • Public/Legislative Affairs (pg. 6) • Amtrak at 40! (pg. 8) • Photos of the month (pg. 11) Bulletin Board / Members in Action Photos of the Month Bulletin Board: booth at National Train Day held May 7th at Gordon Robinson's presentation at our April L.A. Union Station. Among the members Omnitrans 5876 “Old 9th meeting on OCTA's transit system study who attended and/or dropped by to say Blue” at the San was informative and resulted in a spirited hello were Erik Griswold, Craig Weingarten, Bernardino Station on Q&A session. Nick Matonak, Bart Reed, April 17, 2011. The Jerry Martin, Chaffee Yiu, John Ulloth, Ken Stephen Villavaso of the Los Angeles County bus was on display for Ruben, Charles Powell, Dave Snowden, Alek Bicycle Coalition will be the speaker at the San Bernardino Friedman, Dominick Falzone, Perias Pillay, our June 11th meeting. Railroad Days. Joe Dunn and Andrew Novak. If your workplace could benefit from partici- Ruben, Griswold and Novak attended San Old Blue is the pating in Metro's employee pass program Bernardino Railroad Days, held April 16-17. agency’s historic bus contact Stephanie Henderson at and was originally 213-922-6031. Ruben attended the Metro Westside/Central from Metropolitan Governance Council and the San Gabriel Save the date: Saturday June 11th the city Coach Lines in Valley Governance Council meetings, Los Angeles. of Torrance will be holding its annual City held respectively on April 13th and 11th. (Andrew Novak Yard Open House at 20500 Madrona Avenue Photo) from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Among those participating in the Pacific Railroad Society April 2-3 excursion between As of June 30, 2011 1-800-COMMUTE, the L.A. and Bakersfield were Andrew Novak regional transit information number will be (who was the assistant excursion director), discontinued. Replacements include 323-GO Ken Ruben, John Andoh, Hank Fung, and -METRO and 511. Russ Jones. Members in Action: Joe Dunn attended the April Green Line The April/May issue of Metrolink Matters in- extension community meeting in Torrance. cludes comments Charles Hobbs first posted on Metrolink's Facebook page. Tom Rubin's article "Los Angeles: The MTA's San Diego MTS NABI Bus Stop Strategy", analyzing Metro's ra- Are you buried in paper? 1011 at the end of tionale for its June service cuts, appeared on Are you interested in getting your SO.CA.TA Line 7 in La Mesa on Newgeography.com. newsletter in PDF? April 26, 2011. Addenda to last month's column: co-founder (Andrew Novak Photo) Steve Crosmer was among those attending We are now offering the SO.CA.TA newslet- the "Steel Wheels in California" RailPAC/ ter in PDF format to our members. The PDF NARP meeting on March 19th, held in the newsletters will be available a week before Metro Board Room. the meeting and will be in full color. If you would like to get the PDF newsletter instead Andrew Novak had a photo in the March of the printed version email us at: 2011 issue of Western Transit. [email protected] Dana Gabbard and Joe Dunn staffed our Page 2 The TRANSIT Advocate www.socata.net Page 11 Amtrak at 40 Continued Transit Updates By April 1971 train-off notices began to ap- Norwalk Transit San Bernardino Line (Monday - Friday) pear across the county as the May 1st dead Norwalk Transit has postponed the proposed -New express trains 383 and 384 have been line approached. Many cities and towns changes that were reported on in last added to the schedule. would lose passenger service forever as the months newsletter. We will report on the -Trains 382, 386, 385, and 387 to San Ber- new era arrived in the United States. On changes if and when they occur. nardino have been added to the schedule. April 19th, the Railpax name was dropped in -Changes have also been made to Trains favor of Amtrak, short for American Travel Metrolink Angels Express Trains 300, 301, 305, 309, 312, 320, 322, 324, by Track. Along with the new name a red, Starting April 26th passengers can purchase 326, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, the special Angel Express Train tickets at white, and blue paint scheme was unveiled 335, 336, and 337. along with the classic pointless arrow logo. Orange County Ralphs Supermarkets. Riverside Line (Monday - Friday) It was now only a matter of time before Am- In mid-May Metrolink will begin offering a $4 -Train 408 has undergone a schedule trak would be starting a new era in the youth ticket (ages 6-18) for the special change. United States. Angels Express Trains. Since the service began on April 8th Metrolink reports close to Orange County Line (Monday - Friday) On May 1, 2011, Amtrak celebrated 40 years 1,000 passengers have used the special -Train 681 now departs earlier to connect of being America’s RailroadSM. Not a bad re- Service offered for 7:05 PM home games. with Train 901 and Train 687 has also un- cord for an experiment that was only sup- dergone a schedule change. posed to last two years. While it has not Additional Metrolink changes been easy going for all 40 of those years, Effective May 9th Metrolink will make Inland Empire/Orange County Line Amtrak continues to show that Americans several changes to their service aside from (Weekends) still have an interest and a need for passen- the two new express trains reported on in -Seasonal Train 857 and 858 will begin ger rail travel. To celebrate the 40th Anniver- last months issue. operation on July 2, 2011 and continue sary, Amtrak has painted four of their Gen- through October 9, 2011. eral Electric P42 locomotives in the various Ventura County Line (Monday - Friday) paint schemes used by Amtrak since day 1. -The Montalvo Station will be renamed East NCTD They have also assembled a special museum Ventura. On April 22nd, NCTD eliminated seven stops train that will spend the next year touring -Trains 150 and 155 have been added to the on Line 350 as part of the new Breeze Rapid the United States showing the history of schedule. a six-mile route from the Escondido Transit Amtrak. For more information of the 40th -Trains 901 and 900 have been extended to Center to Westfield North County. Anniversary, visit Amtrak’s 40th website at: the Burbank Airport. -Changes have also been made to Train The eliminated stops are: http://amtrak40th.com/ 908. -Escondido Boulevard at 4th Avenue, northbound and southbound stops. On the right is a sample of Amtrak trains Antelope Valley Line (Monday - Friday) through the years, from top to bottom: Amtrak -New express trains 282 and 285 have been -Escondido Boulevard at 11th Avenue, E-Unit 417 on the point of the “San Joaquin” northbound and southbound stops. in Merced in March 1976. (Jim Walker Photo) added to the schedule. -Escondido Boulevard northbound Amtrak F40PH 229 on the point of a “San Die- -Trains 281, 283, 284, and 286 to Santa stop, south of Felicita Avenue. gan” in San Diego in the early 1980s. (Jim Clarita have been added to the schedule. Walker Photo) Amtrak P42 117 leads the -Changes have also been made to Trains -Bear Valley Parkway at San Pasqual Road, “Coast Starlight” through Black Butte, 202,215, 217, 220, 222, and 223. northbound and southbound stops. California on September 6, 2004.
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