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Expo Line to Santa Monica. Map by Peter Eastern based on data from OpenStreetMap and contributors (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The newly extended Expo Line light rail will start offering rides from downtown Los Angeles all the way to Santa Monica in 10 days – Friday, May 20. Metro has just released another promotional video (via The Source) to promote its new light rail to the sea.

This one offers a first-person perspective from inside the controller’s car as the train passes through each new station. The whole thing is sped up (and set to a vintage-sounding techno track), but the ride looks pretty smooth.

The train runs into a couple red lights while approaching the downtown Santa Monica station, but it’s an otherwise seamless trip.

Metro will begin offering rides on the Expo Line extension on Friday, May 20, with free rides on that day and the next. Festivals are planned at six of the seven new stations on Saturday.

A look at the train line’s newly released schedule shows that a trip from downtown L.A. to downtown Santa Monica will take between 47 and 50 minutes.

This story originally appeared at Curbed LA

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