Van Nuys/Metrolink/ESFV Line

Van Nuys/Metrolink Station

Located at Van Nuys Blvd. and Raymer St., the northern terminus of Alternatives 4 & 5 would connect with Metro’s under-construction East San Fernando Valley rail line along Van Nuys Blvd. and with Amtrak and Metrolink lines to and from San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange and San Diego counties. Multiple Metro and DASH buses also stop here. The station is just south of The Plant Shopping Center, which is home to 35 stores and restaurants and a movie theater built on the site of the former General Motors’ Van Nuys Assembly automobile factory. Van Nuys takes its name from pioneering Valley landowner Isaac Newton Van Nuys.

Sherman Way/Sepulveda

Sherman Way/Sepulveda Station

Metro bus stops are located at this intersection, in addition to retail centers and office buildings. Sherman Way is named after Gen. Moses Hazeltine Sherman, a pioneering Southern California real estate and transportation entrepreneur who helped settle the San Fernando Valley and founded streetcar systems that would evolve into key parts of the storied Yellow and Red Car lines that spanned the Los Angeles basin from the late 19th Century until the early 1960s.

Sepulveda/G Line

Sepulveda/G Line Station

This station would connect with Metro’s G Line, formerly known as the Orange Line, which runs between Chatsworth and the North Hollywood B (Red) Line subway station, with stops along the way including Pierce College, Valley College and the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area. Sepulveda Blvd. was the longest street in the City and County of Los Angeles until the city of El Segundo recently renamed its stretch to Pacific Coast Highway. The street was named in 1925 for Francisco Sepúlveda, whose Mexican Land Grant ranch encompassed much of the boulevard. The G Line follows a route used for Southern Pacific Railroad passenger service between 1904 and 1920 and Pacific Electric streetcars between 1911 and 1952.

Sepulveda/Ventura

Sepulveda/Ventura Station

This station is located near major bus lines and the Sherman Oaks Galleria, which was an icon of teenage “mall culture” and was featured in the films “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and “Valley Girl.” Ventura Blvd. was part of the El Camino Real, the Spanish royal highway connecting California’s Missions. It was also U.S. Route 101 until today’s 101 freeway was built. Ventura Blvd.’s 18 miles of contiguous businesses makes it the longest commercial corridor of its kind in the world.

UCLA

UCLA College Station

The UCLA station, located in the heart of campus at Gateway Plaza, would be the busiest in Metro’s network, serving nearly 46,000 students in addition to UCLA faculty and staff, employees and patients of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and visitors to cultural, sporting and other events. UCLA is LA County’s fourth-largest employer, and the station would offer campus, local and commuter bus connections.

Wilshire/Westwood/D Line

Wilshire/Westwood Station

This station would connect with Metro’s D (Purple) Line subway, which is currently being extended from Wilshire Blvd. and Western Ave. This bustling intersection offers access to the historic restaurants, stores and theaters of Westwood Village, the UCLA campus, the office towers along Wilshire Blvd., and the nearby Federal building and Veterans Affairs campus. 

Santa Monica/Sepulveda

Santa Monica/Sepulveda Station

This station would be at an intersection anchored by the Westwood Gateway office complex. More importantly for some, just south is the Westside’s only location of Zankou Chicken. The historic Nuart Theater and the West LA Veterans Affairs complex are also in close proximity, as are major bus lines.

Sepulveda/E Line

Sepulveda/E Line Station

This station, which provides transfers with Metro's E (Expo) Line, would represent the southern terminus of Alternatives 4 & 5 until Metro proceeds with Phase 2, which would connect with LAX. The E Line runs between Downtown LA and Santa Monica, with stops along the way including USC, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the museums at Exposition Park, and the Crenshaw District. Much of the E Line follows the route of the Pacific Electric Santa Monica Air Line, which ceased passenger service in 1953.