Key Facts
- Client: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Balfour Beatty company involved: Balfour Beatty Rail Inc
- In July 2004, Balfour Beatty Rail Inc was awarded the $90 million contract for the extension of the Metro Gold Line from Union Station to the Pomona and Atlantic intersection
- The work was won on the basis of a joint venture with Steiny and Company Inc, a Los Angeles based electrical contractor
- Balfour Beatty will design, provide, install and test all system components, including signalling, communications, traction power and the overhead catenary system
- Design work began in 2004 and construction started in 2007; completion is expected in 2008
- The extension allows for a dual track configuration, primarily in the centre of selected streets, and will provide for high-centre-platform stations
- The project begins at the southern limit of the Los Angeles Union Station, which was the last Metro Gold Line station at the time of the contract
- The six-mile-long line includes a 1.7-mile underground segment
- This segment consists of the construction of two double-level underground stations, installation of the double-track work, as well as the electrical, mechanical and systems equipment
