page_title: Streetcars in Los Angeles
section_title: LA Metro light rail (1990-present)
hierarchical_section_title: Streetcars in Los Angeles / LA Metro light rail (1990-present)
caption_attribution_description: English: Metro Gold Line docked at Atlantic Station.
context_page_description: Streetcars in Los Angeles over history have included horse-drawn streetcars and cable cars, and later extensive electric streetcar networks of the Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric Railway and their predecessors. Also included are modern light rail lines.
context_section_description: The A Line light rail opened in 1990 as the Blue Line, operating both on city streets in Downtown Los Angeles and Downtown Long Beach, as well as on a dedicated surface and underground rights of way.
  The C Line light rail opened as the Green Line in 1995. It operated mostly in the median of Interstate 110 between Redondo Beach, the LAX area and Norwalk.
  The L Line light rail opened as the Gold Line in 2003 and now operates between Downtown L.A. and Azusa in the northeast and East Los Angeles in the southeast.
  The E Line light rail between Downtown L.A. and Santa Monica opened its first section in 2012 as the Expo Line.
caption: Today's Metro Gold Line light rail
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