Van Nuys station (Los Angeles Metro)

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Van Nuys
LACMTA Square G Line.svg
Van Nuys station 2025 Closure.jpg
Van Nuys station on February 19, 2025, two days before its closure
General information
Location6060 & 6062 Van Nuys Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
Coordinates 34°10′50″N118°26′55″W / 34.1805°N 118.4487°W / 34.1805; -118.4487
Owned by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms2 side platforms
Connections
Construction
Parking307 spaces [1]
Bicycle facilities Racks and lockers [2]
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedOctober 29, 2005 (2005-10-29)
OpeningDecember 2027;2 years' time (2027-12)
ClosedFebruary 21, 2025;8 days ago (2025-02-21)
Passengers
FY 20241,471 (avg. wkdy boardings) [3]
Former services
Preceding station LAMetroLogo.svg Metro Busway Following station
Sepulveda
toward Chatsworth
G Line Woodman
toward North Hollywood
Preceding station Southern Pacific Railroad Following station
Encino
toward Chatsworth
Burbank Branch Koster
toward Burbank
Preceding station PE Bolt.svg Pacific Electric Following station
North Sherman Way
towards Canoga Park
Owensmouth Whitley
towards Subway Terminal
North Sherman Way
towards San Fernando
San Fernando
Location
Van Nuys station (Los Angeles Metro)

Van Nuys station is a temporarily closed bus rapid transit station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. It has been closed since February 21, 2025, for the G Line Improvements Project, with G Line buses detoured to a temporary stop on Oxnard Street, one block south of the busway. It is being rebuilt as an elevated station on a viaduct over Van Nuys Boulevard and Vesper Avenue, north-south roads that run perpendicular to the station. Once completed it will continue serving the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. [4] The project is expected to be completed in December 2027.

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The construction also impacts the G Line Bikeway, which previously ran alongside the busway. A 1.36-mile (2.19 km) section between Sepulveda Boulevard and Tyrone Avenue was closed to allow utility lines to be relocated under the bike path. After work is completed, the bikeway will be rebuilt. A detour routes cyclists onto nearby neighborhood streets. [5]

Service

Connections

As of February 20,2025, the following connections are available: [6]

History

Van Nuys Southern Pacific depot during a flood, 1914 Flooding in Van Nuys, February 1914. (LAVC22).jpg
Van Nuys Southern Pacific depot during a flood, 1914

The corridor on which Van Nuys station sits was a rail line, the Burbank Line, built through the San Fernando Valley by Southern Pacific in 1893.

When the Montalvo Cutoff was constructed in 1904, most traffic was diverted over a new mainline which ran diagonally across the valley and the tracks were relegated to branch status. [7]

In 1911, Pacific Electric opened its Owensmouth Line, travelling north-south on Van Nuys Boulevard between Chandler Boulevard and Sherman Way. This is why Chandler Boulevard's western terminus features a wide radius turn onto Van Nuys Boulevard, and why Sherman Circle, a similar wide-radius turn road connecting Van Nuys Boulevard and Sherman Way, survives to this day. [8] [9]

The Orange Line (now the G Line) began operations over the former Burbank branch with new facilities to serve rapid buses on October 29, 2005.

Van Nuys station was closed at 12:01am on February 21, 2025. The next G Line bus, scheduled at 12:15am, was diverted onto Oxnard Street for a long-term detour, expected to last three years as a new elevated Van Nuys station is built. During the detour, G Line buses will still stop at the corner of Oxnard and Van Nuys, one block south of the station. [10] [11]

When the East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project is built, it will take over a portion of the old Owensmouth Line between the G Line and Sherman Way.

Future development

A rendering of the new elevated Van Nuys station. The rail line seen beneath the bridge is the future East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project. Aerial Van Nuys station rendering.jpg
A rendering of the new elevated Van Nuys station. The rail line seen beneath the bridge is the future East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project.

As part of the G Line Improvements Project, Van Nuys is being rebuilt as an elevated station, to make the G Line more reliable, safer and faster by eliminating interference from traffic. [12] The station viaduct will cross both Van Nuys Boulevard and Vesper Avenue. [13]

Van Nuys station will serve as the southern terminus of the East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project light rail line in 2031. [14] [15] In June 2018, Metro staff recommended light rail as the preferred transport mode along this route. This route will connect to Amtrak and Metrolink's Van Nuys train station and Sylmar/San Fernando Metrolink station to the north. Additionally, the Sepulveda Transit Corridor service may connect to the station if Alternative 6 is chosen.

Nearby notable places

References

  1. ↑ "Metro Parking Lots by Line". LA Metro. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Secure Bike Parking on Metro" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 6, 2021. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  3. ↑ "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.
  4. ↑ "Orange Line station information". Archived from the original on October 14, 2010. Retrieved October 2, 2010.
  5. ↑ NBC4 Staff. "G Line Van Nuys Station closing for construction". NBC4 Los Angeles. NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Retrieved February 20, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "G Line Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. February 20, 2025. p. 2. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
  7. ↑ Curtiss, Aaron (April 7, 1996). "Tracks to the Past". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved January 31, 2021.
  8. ↑ Veysey, Laurence R. (June 1958). A History Of The Rail Passenger Service Operated By The Pacific Electric Railway Company Since 1911 And By Its Successors Since 1953 (PDF). LACMTA (Report). Los Angeles, California: Interurbans. p. 40. ASIN   B0007F8D84. OCLC   6565577.
  9. ↑ Van Nuys (Map). United States Geological Survey. 1924. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
  10. ↑ Klemack, John; Lloyd, Jonathan. "Metro to close G Line Station in Van Nuys for bridge project". NBC4 Los Angeles. NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
  11. ↑ "Van Nuys Station to be replaced by temporary stop with G Line Improvements work starting Friday, Feb. 21 | The Source". thesource.metro.net. February 14, 2025. Retrieved February 20, 2025.
  12. ↑ Metro Orange Line Grade Separation Analysis and Operational Improvements Technical Study Task 10.0 Executive Summary FINAL version 5.0 (PDF). Metro (Report). Iteris, STV, TransLink, and WSP. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  13. ↑ Hymon, Steve (February 14, 2025). "Van Nuys Station to be replaced by temporary stop with G Line Improvements work starting Friday, Feb. 21 | The Source". thesource.metro.net. Retrieved February 23, 2025.
  14. ↑ @numble (November 27, 2023). "October 2023 status report for LA Metro's East San Fernando Valley line. Contractor's initial schedule shows line opening at end of 2031, Metro is targeting summer 2031" (Tweet). Retrieved November 28, 2023– via Twitter.
  15. ↑ "Public comment begins on L.A. Metro's FEIS/R for LRT project between Van Nuys and San Fernando". Mass Transit. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. October 5, 2020. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
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