You can finally ride the Expo Line from L.A. to Santa Monica. Here's why the trip takes 50 minutes.

When the long-awaited Expo Line extension opens Friday at noon, passengers will ride from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica in 50 minutes.
That's an improvement over the ugly rush-hour commutes many days on the 10 Freeway. But it's roughly as long as the trip took on the old Pacific Electric Red Cars, which operated a similar route six decades ago.   http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-expo-line-speed-snap-story.html
Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times by Laura J. Nelson