4/24/12: Expo Line opens on April 28 ...
... and MTA finally has the schedule posted. Expo Line will take twenty-six minutes to wend its way from 7th Metro to La Cienega and Jefferson. The Farmdale and Culver City stations are slated to open this summer.
The less-than-cheery bunch above is shown waiting for a tardy 204 after a tour at USC. Our groups have traveled to Exposition Park aboard the 204 and 754 on Vermont, the 81 on Figueroa, the 40, 42 and 740 on King, the 45 and 745 on Broadway, the 102 on Exposition, the 81 on Figueroa (more often than anyone can remember), the 550 and Silver Line on the Harbor 110 Transitway, and have even shuttled here on the Pueblo Del Rio and King East DASH.
But we've never taken the train, as much as we would have liked to. There wasn't a train to take.
At last, now we can. L.A.'s latest choo-choo will allow us to book Exposition Park trips for upper grade classes too large to ride on a bus, as well as schedule visits for groups of teacher-leaders who want to chaperone several classes to the Natural History Museum or Science Center on the same day. We'll probably start booking trips aboard Expo Line shortly after it opens.