The grassroots fight to bring passenger train service back to the Westside began 22 years ago, notes Streetsblog LA, which highlights the locals who pushed Metro to buy the right of way that the Expo Line runs on. At a 1990 community meeting, Darrell Clarke and Russell Davies (no, not the Doctor Who guy) successfully urged the agency to buy the abandoned Southern Pacific ROW. Clarke and Davies then spent much of the next two decades battling NIMBYs and those advocating for a bus project instead of a train. Their hard work comes to fruition with the light rail's opening on April 28. [Streetsblog]
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