LA Metro's Glendora-to-Pomona light rail slated to open this summer

The 9.1-mile, four-station Foothill Gold Line light-rail project from Glendora to Pomona, California, reached substantial completion in January and has been turned over to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (L.A. Metro) for final testing, training and preparation for future A Line passenger service.

It's anticipated passenger service will begin this summer, but L.A. Metro has yet to announce at exact date, according to an update from the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority. Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne and Pomona are the cities that will be served on the 9.1-mile line.

Over the past five years of design and construction, the design-build team of Kiewit-Parsons, a joint venture (KPJV), logged more than 2.6 million work hours to complete all elements of the light-rail project, including construction of four new stations and associated parking facilities, 19 bridges, 21 grade crossings, the light-rail system (including the track, power, train control, communications and safety systems), 9 miles of relocated freight track, 10 miles of decorative retaining walls and sound walls, construction authority officials said.

Meanwhile, the Foothill construction authority's board announced yesterday that it reelected Claremont Council Member Ed Reece as chair and Glendora Council Member Mendell Thompson as vice chair.