ADVISORY/Transportation Leaders Come Together in Los Angeles to Launch California Railroad Safety Week, September 8-12.

News Editors

ADVISORY...for Monday (Sept. 8)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Rail Organizations Cite Public Safety as Priority #1 and Unveil

New Measures to Educate Motorists and Pedestrians and Prevent

Rail-Crossing Fatalities

WHAT:   Kick-off of California Railroad Safety Week in Los Angeles
        -- a statewide effort to highlight the alarming problem of
        motorist and pedestrian fatalities and incidents at
        highway-rail crossings in California, and urge residents to
        take personal responsibility for their safety. Southern
        California efforts supported by Metrolink, MTA, and Caltrans
        to educate residents about these dangerous and illegal
        activities include increased school- and community-based
        education, installation of 1200 new safety signs at railroad
        crossings, and the launch of new English and Spanish Public
        Service Announcements and billboards.

WHO:    -- Maria Contreras-Sweet, Secretary, California Business,
           Transportation and Housing Industry

        -- John Longville, State Assemblymember, 62nd District, and
           author of the legislative resolution proclaiming September
           8-12 as California Rail Safety Week

        -- David Solow, Chief Executive Officer, Metrolink

        -- Bill Alexander, Chair, Metrolink Board of Directors

        -- Roger Snoble, CEO, Metropolitan Transit Authority

WHEN:   Monday, September 8, 2003, 9:00 a.m.

WHERE:  Union Station - Track 3
        800 N. Alameda Street, Los Angeles

WHY:    In 2002, there were 140 incidents at highway-rail crossings
        in California, resulting in 30 fatalities. Also in 2002, there
        were 90 trespasser fatalities along California's railroads,
        accounting for 26% of all railroad trespasser incidents and
        fatalities nationwide.

VISUALS:

        -- Premiere of "Eternity" -- Metrolink's dramatic new
           television Public Service Announcement urging drivers
           to "not turn a minute's wait at the gate into eternity"

        -- New Railroad Crossing Safety Signs

        -- The Metro Experience -- MTA's interactive mobile rail
           safety theater

        -- Wrecked car from a train/automobile incident

        -- The Rainbow Train -- a united line of Metrolink, Amtrak and
           freight equipment, alongside MTA's new Gold Line Train

For further information, please contact Sharon Gavin, Metrolink Media
Relations, at 213-452-0233.