LIGHT RAIL ROUTES
Operator: Metropolitan
Transit System
| BL |
Blue Line |
Old Town Transit Center –
Sante Fe Depot – America Plaza – City College – 12th & Imperial
Transit Center – Bayfront Street – Palm Avenue – San Ysidro / Tijuana
(US-Mexico border) |
| GL |
Green Line |
Old Town Transit Center –
Rio Vista – Mission San Diego – San Diego State University (SDSU) –
Grossmont Transit Center – El Cajon Transit Center – Gillespie Field –
Santee Town Center |
| OL |
Orange Line |
12th & Imperial
Transit Center – Convention Center – America Plaza – City College –
12th & Imperial Transit Center – Euclid Ave. – Lemon Grove
Depot – Grossmont Transit Center – El Cajon Transit Center – Gillespie
Field |
Note: Route designations by letter are not used by the
operator.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Light rail lines: 82.2 km.
HISTORY
- Horse-trams: 3 July 1886 - ?
- Cable cars: 7 June 1890 - 15 Oct. 1892
- Streetcars: 19 Nov. 1887 - 24 Apr. 1949
- Light rail: 26 July 1981 - today
GAUGE
- Streetcars: 1435 mm. (mostly); some early lines had 1067 mm.
- Light rail: 1435 mm.
TRAM PRESERVATION
The San Diego Vintage Trolley, Inc. restores old San Diego streetcars and hopes to operate them in the future over the regular downtown San Diego Trolley tracks for touristic purposes.
SOURCES
PRINT
- Mills, J.R. "Ten years of the San Diego trolley: A decade of success in California", Light Rail & Modern Tramway, Jan. 1992 (55:649), p.12-17.
- Rice, W. & Robins, K. "San Diego - Where red LRVs rule", Tramways & Urban Transit, Nov. 1999 (62:743), p.412-414.
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