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Title
Red Line subway escalators
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection;
Creator
Roth, Marissa
Contributor
Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
2000
Publication Information
Arthur Erickson Architects
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
View of an escalator, looking from the bottom up, at the Civic Center/Tom Bradley subway station on Hill Street, between Temple and 1st Streets. The Red Line subway was officially opened on January 30, 1993 at the cost of $1.4 billion dollars. It runs 17.4 miles from Union Station to North Hollywood and has a daily ridership of 121,000 persons (statistics as of July 2000). Regular fares are $1.30 one-way and $2.70 round trip; Senior/Handicapped fares are $.45 one-way and $.90 round trip; children under 5 ride for free (fares as of February 1995). The architectural firm: Arthur Erickson Architects, Inc. Photograph dated April 2000.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 31 cm. on sheet 28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00066909
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection;
GPC_b2_f3_i35; A-011-677 4x5
CARL0000070280
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3969
Subject
Metro Red Line
Metro Rail (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Escalators--California--Los Angeles
Subways--California--Los Angeles
Subways stations--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs

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