Caltrans to accommodate three-car trains, the five Metro-built stations west of the freeway only have room for two-car trains. The line does not serve Downtown Los Angeles. Still, passengers can reach it by connecting with the J Line busway at Harbor Freeway Station, the A Line light rail at Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station, or Metro Bus Express route at Norwalk station. Hours of operation Metro C Line trains run between approximately 3:30 am. and midnight daily, with a scheduled running time of 34 minutes from end to end. Service on Friday and Saturday nights continues until approximately 2:15 am. The C Line runs with one-car trains in the early mornings (3:35 am–5:30 am) and late evenings (9:00 pm–12:55 am). Headways Trains on the C Line operate every seven to eight minutes during peak hours, Monday through Friday. They operate every 15 minutes during midday and all day on the weekends, with night service running every 20 minutes. Speed The C Line is the fastest in the Los Angeles Metro Rail network because trains can operate at speeds up to for most of their route as trains run in the median of the I-105 freeway, not having at-grade street service like other lines such as the A Line. The line has complete grade separation, relatively long station spacing, and a primarily straight alignment. The C Line takes 34 minutes to travel , at an average speed of . This is 31% faster than the Metro L Line, 38% faster than the Metro A Line, and 74% faster than the Metro E Line. Station listing The C Line consists of the following 14 stations (from west to east): Ridership History In 1972, Caltrans signed a consent decree to allow construction of the fiercely opposed Century Freeway (Interstate 105), which included provisions for a transit corridor in the freeway's median as a way to help communities impacted by the new freeway. Construction began in 1987 on the corridor as a light rail line, envisioned as a connection with the bedroom communities in the Gateway Cities along the Century Freeway with the then-burgeoning aerospace center in El Segundo. The section in El Segundo would be fully elevated and follow the route of the Harbor Subdivision. From the beginning of the project, several compromises were made. Because Caltrans dropped a plan for the freeway to cross through Norwalk to Interstate 5, the line was denied a