CHINATOWN : Rail Station Walkway Plan Gets Backing

A community panel has recommended that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority approve a 19-foot pedestrian walkway that would lead from a proposed light-rail station on the outskirts of Chinatown into the neighborhood.

The vote ended nearly a year of community meetings on what type of platform should be built to connect the station at Alameda and College streets to Broadway, the heart of the neighborhood. The choice was between a 16-foot, a 19-foot and a 30-foot elevated platform.

An MTA committee is scheduled to vote on the proposal in early June and the MTA board is expected to make a decision later that month, Jager said.

The Chinatown stop will be one of 14 on the Pasadena Blue Line when it opens sometime after 1998, MTA officials said. The $841-million line will stretch almost 14 miles through Downtown, Highland Park, South Pasadena and Pasadena.