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   Today I learned (todayilearned@noc.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 19:20:04 JST Today I learned

   TIL progress on an extension to the Metrolink Antelope Valley line to Palmdale and Lancaster in LA was expedited by approximately 10 years by an earthquake. Portions of freeways serving those cities collapsed leading to an emergency extension to the line and temporary platforms being built.

   https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-signal-metrolink-january-25-1994/67154435/
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   https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1iuk71n/til_progress_on_an_extension_to_the_metrolink/

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 19:21:40 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @todayilearned Image description: Photo or scan of a newspaper with the headline "Local Metrolink line sets system record Monday with 16,000". The rest is not very raedable, but the third paragraph says "Of them 16,000 riders, 6,000 boarded rom emergency stations in Lancaster and P (unreadable) that opened Monday and will (unreadable) its operation indefinitely".