Foothill Gold Line Project Update Highlights - February 2024

[@michaelmorgan9824]

Keep going! Good Job Guys and Gals!

[@amychun828]

Looks amazing!!Please keep up the good work. I can't wait for those stations to open. It will save me sooooo much driving time.

[@mrxman581]

Great to see all the progress. Well done. Keep up the good job. Thanks.

[@TheA380Guy]

Any highlights for March 2024?

[@FoothillGoldLine]

Hi - A new project highlight video will come out late next week.

[@TheA380Guy]

Ok thank you

[@TheA380Guy]

@@FoothillGoldLineyour services are very good last time I took the L Line to Union Station from Azusa and it was pretty good

[@TheA380Guy]

@@FoothillGoldLineso are you gonna keep BNSF running along the corridor

[@FoothillGoldLine]

@@TheA380Guy The freight tracks were relocated earlier in the project to allow freight service to continue through the corridor.

[@maungwinn5530]

Thank you for the progress video. Can you please share when the train will be in operation for general public?

[@FoothillGoldLine]

Hi - The Glendora to Pomona project is on schedule and on budget to be completed and turned over to LA Metro in early-January 2025. They will determine when passenger service begins, but historically it has taken them about six months to begin service when we've completed and turned over past segments of the Gold Line (now called A Line).

[@maungwinn5530]

@@FoothillGoldLine thank you for the reply.

[@jackwiegmann]

Great to see progress, but are parking lots the only infrastructure being built at stations? Are any TOD projects in the pipeline?

[@FoothillGoldLine]

Hi Jack - The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority is just responsible for planning, designing and building the light rail project (including the station parking facilities). However, the Construction Authority does work with the corridor cities to explore and identify transit-oriented development (TOD) opportunities around each station. In this final leg of the project from Glendora to Montclair, there's already some TOD built or currently underway, with plans for more in the future. The Construction Authority has also in the past commissioned studies on TOD already built, planned or has potential along the operational Foothill Gold Line segments (now called the A Line) and future segments, which you can read about here: foothillgoldline.org/default/transit-oriented-development-past-and-present/

[@arxligion]

How is the Claremont section going? Will that start anytime soon?

[@FoothillGoldLine]

Hi - The Construction Authority is currently seeking the final funding needed to complete the 3.2-mile project segment from Pomona to Montclair (which includes the Claremont station). In late-December 2023, Metro submitted a full funding request for the funding needed to complete the Los Angeles County portion of the project to CalSTA. CalSTA is the agency overseeing the $4 billion funding program (SB125) for transit capital projects statewide that was approved by the state legislature and governor last summer. $1 billion of the program is expected to be allocated for Los Angeles County over the next few years. With an official announcement by CalSTA expected before the end of April, the Construction Authority is getting ready to begin the approximately 15-month procurement process to hire the design-build team to build the Pomona to Montclair project segment. Once funding is secured and a design-build team hired, the shovel-ready Pomona to Montclair segment will take approximately five years to complete.

[@mrxman581]

​@FoothillGoldLine Thanks for that information.

[@yertlenest]

This is the only state agency with highly paid CEOs who advocate for their own existence. We do not need the extension to Montclair. Finish the job to Glendora then dissolve this agency.

[@EJ-ul5um]

While the Silver Streak to and from Montclair is 24 hours and has comfortable seats, that extension would allow me to have one train directly to Canyon Montclair, Montclair hospital, Taco Bell that accepts EBT, and other stores including Target, Dollar Tree and 99 cents only.