[FromSD]

I agree that Option 2 makes the most sense and Option 3 the least.

When the Green Line was originally planned, there were still a huge number of aerospace production jobs in El Segundo. The people who filled those jobs often lived in Hawthorne or further east in South LA. The Green Line was intended to provide workers in those areas with high quality public transit to their jobs in El Segundo. By the time the Green Line opened in the early '90s, however, the post cold war LA defense slump was in full swing and many of the aerospace production jobs had gone away or moved to states with cheaper labor costs. The workers left in El Segundo aerospace tended to be engineers who lived in the South Bay or further afield in the San Fernando Valley or Orange County. So the Green Line lost one of its most important reasons for being. Option 3 really captures the original purpose of the Green Line, a purpose that has been overcome by events.

Option 2 provides the best access to the north and east as well as the South Bay. It will prove even more useful after the K Line is extended south to Torrance.