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Van Nuys Station (Los Angeles Metro)
Van Nuys station is a temporarily closed bus rapid transit station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. It has been closed since February 21, 2025, for the G Line Improvements Project, with G Line buses detoured to a temporary stop on Oxnard Street, one block south of the busway. It is being rebuilt as an elevated station on a viaduct over Van Nuys Boulevard and Vesper Avenue, north-south roads that run perpendicular to the station. Once completed it will continue serving the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. The project is expected to be completed in December 2027. The construction also impacts the G Line Bikeway, which previously ran alongside the busway. A section between Sepulveda Boulevard and Tyrone Avenue was closed to allow utility lines to be relocated under the bike path. After work is completed, the bikeway will be rebuilt. A detour routes cyclists onto nearby neighborhood streets. Service Connections , the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Van Nuys Boulevard
Van Nuys Boulevard is a major north–south arterial road that runs through the central San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, California. The boulevard was notable for its Cruising (driving), cruising lifestyle that was prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s, which was depicted in the 1979 film ''Van Nuys Blvd. (film), Van Nuys Blvd.'' History When Van Nuys was plotted in 1911, the main thoroughfare and its offshoots were called Sherman Way. The Pacific Electric San Fernando Line interurban railway was constructed north to San Fernando between 1911 and 1913 largely in the boulevard's median strip. As the town developed, North Sherman Way was renamed Van Nuys Boulevard as the main boulevard in the town of Van Nuys, which got its name from longtime Valley wheat farmer Isaac Newton Van Nuys. Sherman Way, named for entrepreneur and Valley developer Moses Sherman, Gen. Moses Hazeltine Sherman, originally included segments of the thoroughfares known today as Chandler and Van Nuys boul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
