The Sepulveda Transit Corridor is a two-phased planned transit corridor that aims to connect the Los Angeles Basin to the San Fernando Valley through Sepulveda Pass in Los Angeles, California, by supplementing the existing I-405 freeway through the pass. The corridor would partly parallel I-405, and proposed alternatives include heavy rail rapid transit (a subway) or a monorail line connecting the G Line in the Valley to the D Line and E Line on the Westside, and the K Line near Los Angeles International Airport.[1]
I-405 over Sepulveda Pass between I-10 and US 101, which the proposed transit line will run parallel to, is the busiest highway corridor in the United States, serving 379,000 vehicles per day.[2]
Currently, LA Metro services the Sepulveda Pass corridor (which is essentially phase 1 of the Sepulveda Transit corridor) with bus Route 761, which uses Sepulveda Boulevard to traverse Sepulveda Pass. Its southern terminus is Expo/Sepulveda station on the E Line, and connects to the G Line at its Van Nuys station and Amtrak and Metrolink at their Van Nuys station, before terminating at Sylmar/San Fernando station. It takes about an hour to connect the E and G Lines.[3] Route 233 serves Sepulveda Pass at night.[4]
What is currently designated as phase 2 of the project is served by Culver CityBus lines 6 and Rapid 6 via Sepulveda Blvd, with the latter only operating weekdays. The lines' northern terminus is the UCLA Gateway Plaza (Westwood/Strathmore). Both lines 6 and Rapid 6 meet the aforementioned Metro 761 in Westwood Village at the Westwood Blvd/Weyburn Ave intersection and at the 761's southern terminus, the Metro E Line's Expo/Sepulveda station. The southern terminus is the Aviation/LAX C line station. As such, the lines indirectly serve LAX, requiring a transfer to a free shuttle bus that serves the station and LAX terminals. They will be rerouted to the LAX Metro Transit center station once it is open,[5] as the station will feature bus bays and direct connections to the LAX terminals by way of the LAX Automated People Mover.[6] Rapid 6 is unique in that it has traffic intersection signal priority in the City of Los Angeles,[7] whereas most agencies do not have signal priority outside of their base city. Line 6 completes its run as scheduled in 1 hour 4 minutes with average traffic while the Rapid 6 completes its run with 15 minute headways in 54 minutes as scheduled with average traffic.
Total transit time from the Aviation/LAX C Line station to the Van Nuys G Line Station with the aforementioned bus service is about 2 hours plus transfer time. The completion of both phases of this project is estimated to return a total transit time through the whole line of about 45 minutes.
- ^ "Rail concepts released for Sepulveda Transit Corridor project". Metro.
- ^ "I-405 In LA Named Busiest Interstate In Any U.S. City". CBS Los Angeles. CBS Broadcasting Inc. August 20, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ "Maps & Schedules". LA Metro. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
- ^ "Maps & Schedules". LA Metro. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
- ^ "About LAX/Metro Transit Center Station – Metro K Line". Retrieved January 18, 2024.
- ^ "LAX/Metro Transit Center Station". Metro. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ "Line 6 - Sepulveda Blvd". www.culvercitybus.com. Retrieved January 18, 2024.