Comments on: history in motion: angels flight takes off!

By: John H. Welborne

John H. Welborne — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:28:29 +0000

Rich is right, but we believe it’s more a matter of weeks or months than “a year.” The complicated and expensive 2.5-year restoration now is complete, as is most testing, but multiple levels of government reviews are still underway, including by State agencies (whose budgets and staffing at the moment may be even more stressed than those of a small nonprofit organization like our Angels Flight Railway Foundation). The most up-to-date news about reopening most likely will come from Olivet or Sinai at http://www.twitter.com/angelsflight.

By: Rich Alossi

Rich Alossi — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:00:54 +0000

Pat: It’s not running yet. Could happen in a month, could happen in a year. It’s close though.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:32:03 +0000

Does anyone know if Angels Flight is operational?

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:55:24 +0000

Is Angels Flight running or not? I’m having a hard time finding the answer. Can you help?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:35:43 +0000

So it’s May 2009 and the system looks dead and abandoned. What happened?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:09:40 +0000

I voted “hardly ever” only because I live in the Southern U.S. and seldom make it to Los Angeles anymore.

However, I worked in downtown L.A. for over ten years, when I longed to take another ride (the first ride taken as a kid).

It can become as important of a symbol of Los Angeles to us “outsiders” as the Griffith Observatory, anything along the ocean, the Library Tower, or the Hollywood sign, in my humble opinion.

I promise to visit next time I’m anywhere near downtown! Kudos to all those dedicated people who have brought this little railroad back to life!

By: Rich Alossi

Rich Alossi — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:15:01 +0000

^ I knew someone would bring that up. I purposefully waited until there were few people in the shot. They kept talking to me while I was shooting.

The area gets a fair amount of pedestrian traffic, so that’s not a worry for me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:12:39 +0000

I’m happy to see Angel’s Flight running again. I’m disappointed to see only one pedestrian walk in front of the camera during the shoot. Where is everyone?

By: Philip Schaefer

Philip Schaefer — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:35:10 +0000

I think that the opening day will be early March.

I will be looking forward to riding it on my next visit to LA.

By: Nancy Richardson

Nancy Richardson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:16:34 +0000

So John,

when in the next couple of years will this project of yours come to an end, and when will you turn it over to a responsible party able to to keep it open and working?