What stands between the San Fernando Valley and the Westside of LA? The Santa Monica Mountains, of course. Can LA Metro conquer this natural barrier by funding either a hard-rail line or a monorail…
Heavy traffic on the southbound 405 freeway at Mulholland Drive on Monday, June 20, 2022. LA Metro’s ambitious plan to connect San Fernando Valley with the Westside via rail comes down to a choice between an overhead monorail or underground subway, and in a new report based on 3,122 comments from residents, homeowner groups, environmentalists, elected officials and others shows 93% want tunneling. Just 7% want a monorail.
About the only certainties for this project are the two end points: the north end of the Sepulveda Pass Transit Project would be at the Metrolink/Amtrak station at Van Nuys Boulevard and Saticoy Street, while the south end connects to the Metro E light-rail line, which runs from Santa Monica to Downtown LA. How to get there varies between an aerial, Disneyesque monorail or an underground subway similar to those in other parts of Los Angeles. Or a mixture of the two.
The reason so many oppose the monorail concept is that monorails require imposing overhead stations along the 405, causing negative visual impacts. And UCLA opposed Alternative 2 because a people mover “assumes use of UCLA property.”with peak-hour stops every 2 minutes. Heavy-rail options are broken into two kinds: an automated train with each car carrying 170 passengers and a 2 1/2 minute frequency at stops.
A rendering of what the BYD SkyRail monorail would look like coming down the Sepulveda Pass on an elevated track in the middle of the 405 Freeway.
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