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The Metro Gold Line Construction Authority is an independent transportation planning and construction agency created in 1998 by the California State Legislature, SB 1847. Its sole purpose was to immediately resume design, contracting and construction of the Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Gold Line (formerly the Pasadena Blue Line) which had been suspended by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) in the same year. The newly formed construction authority completed its charge in just under three years with the 13.7 mile line opened in 2003 on time and under budget. For this leg of the project, state and local funding (Proposition A and C) were already in place to fund the project. The same legislation that created the Construction Authority also dictated its role to plan and construct "any fixed mass transit guide way eastward to Claremont." This was later extended to Montclair to include the city's regional transit hub, the "Transcenter," and gain the support and participation of the San Bernardino Council of Governments.