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While CalTrans expects heavy delays in and out of North Los Angeles County on I-5 beginning today through New Years Day (plan ahead), the Valley gets to celebrate more Orange Line sweetness (prepare to salivate).
Today at 10:30 a.m. marks the official opening of the new Canoga Station at Van Owen and, well, Canoga (duh). It comes packaged with a 611-space Park & Ride Lot, the largest in the West Valley. But more importantly, it sets forth a launching point for North and South extensions of the service.
We're not sure what the Southern extension is needed for (after all, the next Orange line stop is the Warner Center where you can catch the Metro 750 that takes you down to Ventura and back across the valley to the Universal Red Line station), but a Northern extension that would connect the 101 and 118 freeways parallel to Topanga Cyn Rd. cannot hurt.
Of course, if it would go that far, it definitely needs its own color. How about the Indigo Line?
Photo by Trainman74 via Flickr
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The Southern extension sounds more like the Orange Line is going to split in two branches, with the southern line terminating at the Warner Center Transit Hub (a block of Owensmouth Avenue where all the buses meet) and the other continuing to Chatsworth.
The Orange Line is doing better than anyone expected, but I still think Metro should have gone with the Miami option, where local buses can get on the busway after finishing a street run and heading to a major terminal. If the Orange Line gets extended to Chatsworth, this would make a lot of sense since every bus can theoretically use the busway.
The Valley has four major nodes: Chatsworth (northwest), Warner Center (southwest), North Hollywood (southeast) and Sylmar (northeast). Theoretically, every existing line can start and end at one of these nodes, and this can reduce having to transfer often.