Metro is offering free rides on the K Line starting Friday at noon and through Sunday, Oct. 9. "Los Angeles, this line is now yours," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Finally, two major segments of Metro’s $2.15 billion, 8.5-mile Crenshaw-LAX Metro Rail line are “substantially complete,” according to a March 30 blog posting from the agency.

When LA Metro created the Expo Line in 2012, it did not build a single station stop at Crenshaw and Expo. It created two. The first, for trains heading west towards Santa Monica, was on the east side ...