Arrow train services have begun, run by Metrolink featuring Stadler rollilng stock (Riverside: university)

[OyCrumbler]

Arrow is the newest train service in the area.

Here's the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(rail_line)

Here's the schedule: https://metrolinktrains.com/rider-info/arrow/

Its initial schedule is about every 30 minutes during peak and 60 minutes off-peak and goes from downtown San Bernardino where it connects with other services including Inland-Empire Orange County Metrolink train service, San Bernardino Metrolink train service, and Omnitran's sbX bus rapid tranist service and over to Redlands terminating near the University of Redlands. Future improvements include halving the headway between trains and extending along the historic existing Redlands Loop around Highland and San Bernardino International Airport though I think they'll have to be an established history of decent passenger volumes for that extension to make sense.

It also features Metrolink's first service using Stadler rolling stock which has been very popular and reliable elsewhere. There's another interesting bit where in 2024 they'll be piloting trains that run off of hydrogen fuel cells. I hope that works out and at some point Arrow perhaps become part of an integrated line running new rolling stock that essentially serves as extension of the San Bernardino or Riverside Metrolink lines. I do think it's ridiculously low-hanging fruit that's missed from the Riverside Line not serving Ontario airport directly and that it isn't extended past downtown Riverside to at least San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot.

[CA4Now]

Great to hear - hopefully people will use it more and their cars less.

The new train connects to job centers, including Esri, civic centers in Redlands and San Bernardino, and to the University of Redlands.

https://la.streetsblog.org/2022/10/2...an-bernardino/