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LA Metro Breaks Ground on BRT Improvements
Los Angeles Metro broke ground recently on the Metro Orange Line Improvements Project, which will improve bus speeds and safety on the BRT line in the San Fernando Valley and prepare the line for a future conversion to light rail.
Funding for the $320 million to $393 million project comes from Los Angeles County Measure M, with approximately $75 million from SB-1, the state’s gas tax and vehicle fee transportation funding program approved by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2017. The project is scheduled in Measure M to be completed by 2025 and is one of the public transit projects identified in Metro’s Twenty-Eight by ’28 list of transportation improvements slated for completion before the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles.
Metro has initiated preliminary engineering and has begun taking soil samples near an intersection in Van Nuys in preparation for construction of aerial bridges that will physically separate buses from street traffic below. The project includes two aerial bridges and stations, as well as bike and pedestrian path grade separations, at Van Nuys and Sepulveda boulevards, two of the line’s busiest crossings.
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LA Metro Chief Executive Officer Phillip A. Washington, third from right, joined Los Angeles County supervisors, Metro board members and other officials to acknowledge receiving $75 million in state funds through SB-1.
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Other project improvements will include the installation of four-quadrant crossing gates at up to 35 intersections between North Hollywood and Chatsworth and improved traffic signal priority technology for buses to improve travel times along the 18-mile corridor.
According to Metro, the project as a whole could achieve a 20 percent reduction in bus travel times, increase ridership capacity by 39 percent and virtually eliminate the potential for vehicle intrusions onto the busway while improving safety for buses, cars, pedestrians and bicyclists alike.
Metro plans to convert the Orange Line from BRT to light rail by 2057 unless the project can be delivered sooner via a Metro public-private partnership.
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