DRAWS A
DIVERSE MIX OF
RIDERS.
ARE ETHNIC
MINORITIES.
young summer arts program students
to the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art. It was their first time riding
public transportation.
Golden Valley High School in Santa
Clarita and A.B. Miller High School in
Fontana recently chartered Metrolink
trains to usher students safely to
proms.
do get anxiety on the freeway, and
there's no traffic when you're on
a train," says A.B. Miller student
Vanessa Rivera.
Venable, Hunter Laubach and
Matthew Velazquez on a half-hour
ride from Fullerton to Los Angeles.
two grandsons on Metrolink for the
first time, boarding at the Covina
Station bound for downtown, an
adventure they enjoy even as teens.
from Macao, she took them on
Metrolink and made a free connection
to the Metro Red Line to show
them the magic of Hollywood while
avoiding the unglamorous reality of
costly and nerve-wracking parking
and traffic.
may have changed my life, but
Metrolink changed my commute,"
echoing an oft repeated sentiment
from commuters that riding the train
driving.
day for Metrolink,"
Ikhrata of SCAG says.
"When I look out the
window and see the 10
Freeway, I'm so glad not
to be in one of those
cars stuck in traffic."
his fellow Metrolink passengers
could've been clogging the freeways.
Eighty-two percent of Metrolink
riders have access to a car, about
the opposite of most public transit
operators, who largely serve the
transit-dependent.
all commute and commune on
Metrolink. They lug aboard their
laptops, smartphones, books,
bicycles, skateboards, even
surfboards. They're all part of the
human mosaic that makes Metrolink
trains more than just steel behemoths
trundling along whistling track or
mere lines on a map.