Inglewood Transit Connector
The Inglewood Transit Connector is a planned automated people mover in Inglewood, California intended to link the city's sports complexes to the regional Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The line is 1.6 miles (2.6 km) long and will be run on an entirely elevated route. Service is planned to begin in 2026,[1] in anticipation of the 2028 Summer Olympics.
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| Locale | Inglewood, California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transit type | automated people mover | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operation will start | 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Character | fully elevated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| System length | 1.6 mi (2.6 km) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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History
The Envision Inglewood plan was the culmination of several transportation and mobility initiatives to be undertaken by the city. It included a new automated people mover to connect the then under-construction Downtown Inglewood station on the Crenshaw/LAX Line to The Forum and under-construction SoFi Stadium as well as the proposed Inglewood Basketball and Entertainment Center.[2]
The project is budgeted at $1.016 billion as of April 2020. In March 2020 the city reallocated $233 million from Measure M highway improvement funds to help finance the people mover.[3] The project was additionally awarded $95.2 million by the State under the 2020 Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program.[1]
System
The line will be entirely elevated above Market Street and Manchester Avenue before terminating along South Prairie Avenue. Several people mover technologies were assessed in the project study, though none proved clearly superior; the system and vehicles are expected to be selected through a competitive procurement process.[4]
References
- "Transit and Intercity Rail Capital ProgramFourth Round Selected Projects – Project Detail Summary" (PDF). CalSTA. California State Transportation Agency. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- Pacheco, Antonio (23 July 2018). "An automated people mover could come to L.A.'s new football stadium". The Architect's Newspaper. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- "Editorial: Want football fans to take transit? Build a people mover to the new Inglewood stadium". Los Angeles Times. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- "Envision Inglewood" (PDF). City of Inglewood. Retrieved 22 April 2020.