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Location | 20851 & 20901 Victory Boulevard Los Angeles, California | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°11′19″N118°35′18″W / 34.1886°N 118.5884°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
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Bicycle facilities | Racks and lockers [1] | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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Opened | October 29, 2005 | ||||||||||
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De Soto station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. [2] The station is next to Victory Boulevard, which parallels that section of the Orange Line. It is located in the western San Fernando Valley near the meeting of three largely residential municipal communities of the City of Los Angeles: Canoga Park, Winnetka, and Woodland Hills.
It is named after De Soto Avenue, which travels north-south and crosses the east-west busway route, and is, in turn, named after Hernando de Soto, the conquistador who led the first European expedition into the southeastern United States. De Soto did not explore California, despite the location of the station and avenue.
Counting from the western terminus in Chatsworth, it is the sixth station on the Orange Line.
G Line buses run 24 hours a day. Buses operate every eight minutes during peak hours on weekdays. They operate every ten minutes during the daytime on weekdays and most of the day on weekends. Night service on all days is every 20 minutes. [3]
As of spring 2024, the following connections are available: [4]
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