^Hasn't been fully funded yet. Green TRIP will pay for an order of 50 new LRVs ($200M). 20 of those will be for replacement, 30 for growth (i.e. partial 4-car train operation). Look for that contract to be awarded, possibly to a new manufacturer, in the next few months. One date I heard is for trains to start arriving (or be the full order to have arrived, can't remember) January 2015. 4 car capacity won't be available until end of 2014 anyway, so that's not so bad.
That leaves 60 U2s to be replaced and, at current fleet numbers, another 35-40 will be needed for full 4 car operation.
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