LA Metro begins environmental review process for Sepulveda Corridor project

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (L.A. Metro) has begun the environmental review process for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project.

The agency is soliciting public input during the formal scoping period, which ends Feb. 11, 2022. Virtual public meetings will be held Dec. 7, Jan. 11 and Jan. 22. Comments can also be submitted on L.A. Metro’s comment form, agency officials said in a press release.

Project planning has identified six alternatives to be studied further, including:
• automated monorail that would be entirely aerial along the 405 corridor and the Metrolink Ventura County Line railroad tracks with an electric bus shuttle to University of California Los Angeles (UCLA);
• automated monorail with aerial alignment along the 405 corridor and Metrolink Ventura County Line railroad tracks with an aerial automated people mover connection to UCLA.
• automated monorail with aerial segment along the 405 corridor, an underground segment between Wilshire and Getty Center, then entirely aerial along the 405 and Van Nuys Metrolink Line railroad tracks;
• heavy rail with underground segment south of Ventura Boulevard and aerial alignment generally along Sepulveda Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley;
• heavy rail with underground alignment including along Sepulveda Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley; and
• heavy rail that would be entirely underground including along Van Nuys Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley and with a southern terminus station on Bundy Drive on the Westside.