TMN | TRANSIT - MTA Regional Rebuild/Central Maintenance

TMN: s1e9 | TRANSIT - MTA Regional Rebuild Center (Formerly known as SCRTD Central Maintenance Facility)

Los Angeles CA | December 23, 1998 | 11:45 Hrs

The Central Maintenance Facility CMF was the crown jewel of the Southern California Rapid Transit District SCRTD, it was planned in 1977 and completed on April 25, 1987, "It's our pride and joy," said Phillip Meyers, a Chief Engineer at RTD (Headways, 1987). It was the largest construction project second only to the Metro Rail Project to Long Beach (Headways, 1987). February 1, 1993, following the merger with LACTC; the newly formed MTA renamed the old RTD CMF to Regional Rebuild Center RRC in 1995 (MDRL, 2016). This location is the internal heartbeat of the agency; operational support services of all Metro divisions using a state of the art Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) for inventory and moving parts on a robotized equipment vehicle (Headways, 1987). The center rebuilds, paints and upgrades all metro, other municipal agencies, police and Los Angeles Unified School District buses (MDRL, 2016). On this particular day, the RRC had an open house and select sections of the center was showcased to the public.

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-References-

Headways (1987) First Wave Occupy New Central Maintenance Facility. Retrieved from http://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/employeenews/Headway_1987_May.pdf

Metro Digital Resources Librarian (2016) Central Maintenance Facility. Retrieved from http://metroprimaryresources.info/encyclopedia/central-maintenance-facility/

Metro Digital Resources Librarian (2016) Regional Rebuild Center. Retrieved from http://metroprimaryresources.info/encyclopedia/regional-rebuild-center/

Metro Library and Archive (2008) SCRTD - Central Maintenance Facility. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/metrolibraryarchive/3923671588/in/photostream/