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Originally Posted by homebucket
Probably a combination of higher operating costs and too much wear and tear on the track switch mechanisms.
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It just occurred to me that the new wye doesn't have any flying crossovers, and that there was no practical way to build them without rising WAY over the Century Freeway and eliminating the existing Aviation/LAX station:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/l...!1e3?entry=ttu
This means that one direction of each possible route will have
two at-grade conflict points:
-existing Green line, westbound
-existing Green line to Crenshaw northbound
-new Southbound Crenshaw to Green line eastbound
So even with 15-minute headways, there is a good chance that a train on a two-conflict route will be delayed.
It's kind of amazing, for all of the money spent to build The Century Freeway, Green Line, and Crenshaw Line, that the future capacity of the whole light rail enterprise is severely restricted by this situation.