Have you ever been stuck in traffic on the 134 and longed for a fast and reliable transit connection between the San Fernando to San Gabriel Valleys? We know the feeling! That’s why we are so excited about the North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project.
Nineteen miles in length and spanning 22 stations, the route passes through four cities (Los Angeles, Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena) and will improve access to jobs, schools and dozens of destinations.
We started studying routes for this project in 2018 and completed the environmental review in 2022. At that time, the Metro Board of Directors approved a route, which runs between North Hollywood Station and Pasadena College. The route includes parts of several major streets including Vineland, Lankershim, Glenoaks, Broadway and Colorado.
Now we’re in the project’s pre-construction phase, where we finalize the design and construction planning in coordination with each city. We are on track to open the new BRT line in 2028.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be in your community to hear your ideas on improving the first/last mile experience –– that is, how riders get to and from transit –– at four future BRT stations. We chose one station in each of the future BRT line’s four jurisdictions based on equity, pedestrian and bike safety data, population, and projected ridership data:
- Los Angeles: North Hollywood Station
- Burbank: Olive/Riverside Station
- Glendale: Central/Lexington Station
- Pasadena: Colorado/Lake Station
We want your input! We’ll be at four community events (listed below) where we’ll be sharing a life-sized, interactive streets diorama. You’ll be able to both show and tell us how you get around your neighborhood and what improvements you’d like to see to make walking, biking, or rolling to future stations safer, easier and more pleasant. Your input will inform the development of future street and sidewalk improvements. This could mean bike lanes or crosswalks or other street improvements around each station area.
Look for us at these local events:
Saturday, October 26: Glendale Annual Fall Festival at Pacific Park, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 30: Pasadena Trunk or Treat at Pasadena City Hall, 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 2: North Hollywood Farmers Market at the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Addison Street, 9:30-12:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 9: Burbank Buena Vista Library Pop-up at Buena Vista Library, 11:30-1:30 p.m.
Can’t make the events? You can still participate in the development of these street improvements by taking our survey. Complete it by November 18 for a chance to win a $100 gift card! https://bit.ly/nhtp_survey_eng
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This will be a neither fast or reliable service- it wanders because it is trying to do too much. Much like the Vermont Ave line, we waste money on these projects rather than getting rail studied and set and built in increments. Just sad.
Good luck. Maybe if you push the feds into prioritizing the Vermont subway over every other project in the country, you might see happen in the next 10-15 instead of 35-40 years.
But I will agree. There needs to be Local/Rapid/Freeway Express levels of service for those that do NOT need to wait for every stop to go by before finally reaching their destination at the end of the line. This BRT line is currently slower than the 501 is today. That is embarrassing and the fact that Metro is remaining silent on this issues speaks volumes on how yet again refuse to be proactive when it comes to operations.
The BRT can’t be faster than the 501– they are fundamentally different services. Can the BRT be constructed and operated to have as much priority over cars as possible? I’m holding out hope for that. But you can’t compare the 501 and the future BRT.
“ The BRT can’t be faster than the 501”
That’s not what I said at all.
“ they are fundamentally different services.’
How did you confuse what I said? Because this is EXACTLY what I said.
Notice how I said Freeway Express be included on top of the BRT? Yeah, that’s the 501. Having the 501 being the Freeway Express. In addition to the BRT having a local service serving all stops on the route, plus a “Rapid” service serving limited stops along the BRT route will serve every demographic on the route. The Orange Line and the Silver Line are in dire need of an Express service as well.
The one thing Metro could do is brand the 501 as an Express service of the BRT. Other transit systems already do this around the world with rail projects (Local, Rapid, Limited Express service) and Metro already did this with the 720/920 and 740/940 Rapid Express combo albeit poorly executed.
But we all know that Metro will likely find an excuse to discontinue the 501 before or sometime after and now be stuck with an “enhanced bus service” that’s going to be slower than what we have now.
Agreed! Metro, DOT NOT discontinue the 501 or reduce service on it once this new line opens! We need both!