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Planning by Google Maps: Valley rail loop

Contributed by Wad on August 9th, 2007 at 1:30 am

[tags]los angeles, google maps, fade in[/tags]

Fade In’s proposed Metro Olive Line map
Click on map to go to a Google Map of a proposed Olive Line, looping through the San Fernando Valley via Ventura Boulevard and Sherman Way.

Google Maps makes transit geeks of Fade In. It proposes the Metro Olive Line, a loop across the San Fernando Valley via Ventura Boulevard and Sherman Way.

It would bookend the Orange Line, for which the writer has little love:

Apparently, a few homeowners decided long ago that buses were the answer to the public transit question for the SFV. Fast forward to 2007, and the Orange Line “transitway”delivers passengers along some obscure route through the Valley at break-neck speeds of….. 14 mph.

The inspiration for the Olive Line came from Damien Goodmon’s Get L.A. Moving.

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  1. It would be nice if the olive loop could take you to Griffith Park…

    Comment by raphaelmazor on August 9th, 2007 at 12:48 pm »Reply« resta suma

  2. Also, as much as I love the idea of a fast trip with few stops (unlike, say, the Blue Line), I feel that there may not be enough stops to make the line viable, particularly in the western end of the loop (say, Reseda Blvd).

    But maybe I don’t know enough about the Valley, and those stations wouldn’t really get used much….

    Comment by raphaelmazor on August 9th, 2007 at 12:52 pm »Reply« resta suma

  3. I am not a big fan of loop lines. Rather than a loop, how about one line connecting the Valley with Hollywood or Burbank/Glendale and Downtown, and another connecting the Valley to the West Side. They ought to meet at some point to provide connectivity, but loops are confusing and the density does not justify the expense.

    Comment by Bert Green on August 9th, 2007 at 9:53 pm »Reply« resta suma

  4. Amusing. Anything is better than what we have now. No stops between the 405 and Woodland Hills along Ventura?

    Comment by andrew on August 11th, 2007 at 6:28 pm »Reply« resta suma

  5. I know I’m very late to this party, but … how strange this loop is. Why does it dip down at Universal City? Right now I take a train then a bus to Burbank. A train up through Touluca Lake over and across Burbank by all the studio lots would totally rock!

    Comment by badMike on August 17th, 2007 at 2:49 pm »Reply« resta suma

  6. Given the present financial situation (the state reprogramming taxes that should be used for transportation project, the feds tightening their purse strings) there probably isn’t going to be enough money to do much more than build the second phase of Expo, extend the subway under Wilshire, and build the connector between the Blue and Gold Lines downtown before 2025.

    So Damien and his fellow dreamers can keep dreaming, but I hope they know the meaning of frustration, because that’s what they’re going to get, at least for the forseeable future.

    Comment by Kymberleigh Richards on August 17th, 2007 at 7:01 pm »Reply« resta suma