Los Angeles Metro Crossings (LaXing)

What it is

Every day, Metro trains and Los Angeles drivers meet at more than two hundred street-level crossings — behind gates, or waiting at ordinary traffic lights. LaXing tells that story on the map of the city itself: a scroll-driven narrative walks from the county-wide picture down to individual intersections, pairing Metro’s own collision and delay data with a merged, cross-verified crossing inventory (LA Metro KMZ + OpenStreetMap), then hands you the full dataset to explore.

LaXing Story Map — scroll-driven narrative over a map of Los Angeles — The Story Map: ten chapters from “223 crossings” to the fix, told over a live map.

The full interactive map data explorer

Beyond the narrative, the explorer maps all 223 crossings by type, 90 stations with real photographs of crossing-adjacent stops, a train-speed layer computed from Metro’s GTFS schedule, and a trip planner that estimates how much faster each journey would be if its crossings were grade-separated.

LaXing full interactive map — crossings, stations, speed layers and route planner — The full map: filterable crossings and stations, schedule-derived train speeds, and the grade-separation trip planner.

Why it matters

Slower trainsStreet-running segments crawl at 8–15 mph while grade-separated stretches run 40–50 mph — on the same lines.

Stopped traffic90% of train–car collisions happen at street-running crossings; gates trade car collisions for pedestrian ones.

A proven fixThe C Line is fully grade-separated: zero crossings, zero crossing collisions, zero red-light delay.

No new taxesThe proposed initiative directs existing Measure R and Measure M funds to separate the remaining lines within 10 years. See what it costs →

What it costs

A companion page lays out the financing: roughly $15–25 billion over a 10-year build, paid for by redirecting road and freeway funds voters already approved — starting with a $9 billion transfer from roadway projects — alongside charts of what Los Angeles currently spends on highways versus Metro at the federal, state, county and agency level, and the 18,000–22,000 jobs a year the construction would support.

Read “What it Costs” →

Data & methods

Sources: LA Metro crossing inventory and 2018 Light Rail Operations Update; LA Metro GTFS schedules; Streets For All signal-preemption analysis (2026); Metro Customer Journey Mapping study (2024); OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); station photography via Wikimedia Commons (attributed per image). Basemaps © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap. A citizen-led effort — not sponsored by LA Metro.

Who is behind it

LaXing is not an LA DOT or Metro project and is not endorsed by either. It is an independent, volunteer effort: Justin Levy and Nico Tek Solutions / GeoidLife have been building it in our spare time, working with Justin’s colleagues, to support a citizen-led ballot initiative for LA County.