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Downtown Los Angeles Union Station
Union Station was built by the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Santa Fe railroads. Costing $11 million, it opened in 1939. It was the last of the great stations in America. Over 1 ½ million people visited it within its first three days, and in its heyday (the 1930's and 1940's), it served 7,000 passengers daily. After World War II, and the beginning of the jet age and freeways, train used declined. But in recent years, train travel has increased in popularity. Union Station now serves about 26,000 passengers a day arriving and departing on Amtrak, Metrolink and subway trains. The owners of Union Station, Catellus Development Corporation, secured entitlement to build at Union Station under the Alameda District Specific Plan. Catellus has demonstrated that the transit-centered development model works and the proposed urban business campus at Union Station will reinvent the Downtown office. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority headquarters and the Metropolitan Water......
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Downtown Los Angeles Union Station
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