Metro Offers Tidbits on Elusive Valley to Westside Plan
This needs to extend to the north end of the valley. Maybe from the Van Nuys/Orange line station to Parthenia. Then turning on Parthenia and up Sepulveda to Brand or Renaldi ending at the Sylmar/San Fernando Metrolink station. It would cross the 118, 405 and the 5 — Perfect for park and ride stations.
Or it could straddle Sepulveda and/or the 405 to the aforementioned northern destinations.
Meetings Start for Gold Line to Montclair, But What About Ontario Airport?
I have worked for several cities along the I-210 corridor and they all have forward looking plans to take advantage of the arrival of the gold line. there are a number of universities and colleges along the way, and various small town downtowns as well. I know that Claremont has expanded recently their downtown district by adaptive reuse of a fruit packing house and installed some nice townhomes nearby. As mentioned above, Azusa has done some work, and I would expect the same from La Verne and Glendora as well. You are never going to have the same sort of density around rail that you could get away with in the City of LA, but the local jursidictions definitely want this and some change will come to their urban landscapes because of it.
BTW, one flaw of the "they only deserve metrolink" idea is that it is extremely expensive from a daily fare perspective. I would expect the gold line to be substantially cheaper. That would attract some riders to the gold line, plus I would expect the gold line to run more regularly. Ever have to wait an hour b/c you missed your train? Also, metrolink doesn’t go to the same intermediate destinations that the gold line will go to, so it will be useful to another set of people.
Lastly, I do think that hooking it up to Ontario Airport makes sense, since it would make easy access to a good airport available to anyone from downtown LA eastward, allowing them to save $ on overnight parking or shuttle van fees.
If you go to google street view at the site address you can see the "before shots": http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17219+VALERIO+St,+Van+Nuys,+CA+91406&layer=c&sll=34.205091,-118.508282&cbp=13,58.86,,0,14.34&cbll=34.204966,-118.508479&gl=us&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=17219+Valerio+St,+San+Fernando+Valley,+Los+Angeles,+California+91406&ll=34.204553,-118.507698&spn=0.004428,0.009645&z=17&panoid=pusvnIKAG-dkw8QxUzh_jQ
ADI's Political Contributions Frozen, Vintage Van Nuys
the guy who wrote the copy on the van nuys site is nuts like the two posts above this get grip if you don’t like things FIX them – cool pics however oh and by the way government stopped the flooding…………..i’m bored by the fools here
Hollywood Freeway Park Party, Fly Away Request to West Hollywood
I’m a big fan of the FlyAway service. About 3 times a year I take it to Union Station and get on MetroLink to get out to see my family in Claremont. I’ve figured out that option is less stress than trying to get someone to pick me up and fight traffic. That said, I don’t think LAWA needs to start providing ground transportation to all parts of the city. That’s what shared van companies do. (And, a shared ride direct to a West Hollywood hotel is only $16…not that huge a difference from the $7 FlyAway.)
Both Union Station and Irvine are transit hubs, which means the FlyAway provides a vital link. Van Nuys is LAWA-owned, so I’m guessing that’s one reason for that line. Westwood, however, never seemed to fit for me.
@guest 6. that is like telling a teenage girl to buy a mini-van because one day she may be a soccer mom. it’s just a paranoid and overly prepared view of the world.
building at grade separation would not have been cost effective at the time, and the project would have stalled and not happened. it is a mostly low density route, and people should be able to look both ways before crossing. it’s not like these trains even go that fast.
maybe one day when our train infrastructure covers more of the map we can consider rebuilding the route in the idea way. for today, it is fine.