{"id":501647,"date":"2026-10-20T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501647\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:36:09","slug":"metro-breaks-ground-on-van-nuys-blvd-rail-major-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501647\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Breaks Ground on Van Nuys Blvd. Rail Major Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, Metro and community leaders broke ground on Metro\u2019s East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit project (ESFV). The 6.5-mile 11-station $4 billion rail line will be located in the middle of Ventura Boulevard, extending from Van Nuys to Pacoima.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Metro map of East San Fernando Valley light rail project \u2013 via project webpage<\/a><\/p>\n

L.A. City Councilmember Imelda Padilla has long championed the new line, which she celebrated today as \u201ca historical, epic investment for our communities\u201d fostering a \u201cmultimodal corridor you can all be proud of.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>L.A. City Councilmember Imelda Padilla speaking at this morning\u2019s groundbreaking<\/p>\n

Padilla and others decry the lack of high quality transit options in the Valley, praising this project for countering past disinvestment. \u201cFamilies in the East San Fernando Valley that are watching today,\u201d Padilla proclaimed, \u201cwe want to remind you that today is the day being shortchanged for public transit ends.\u201d<\/p>\n

L.A. City Councilmember Monica Rodriguez praised Metro and LADWP combining both mobility improvements and undergrounding power lines as \u201cmaking sure that our community \u2013 in Pacoima, all along the Van Nuys corridor\u2026 get[s] the kinds of quality investments that other neighborhoods have been getting for decades and generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several speakers acknowledged the community\u2019s role in staying engaged in Metro\u2019s lengthy ESFV project planning process. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath expressed gratitude for community members for \u201csharing your experiences, giving your input, and pushing Metro to deliver for your community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metro broke ground on ESFV rail pre-construction (mainly utility relocation) in late 2022<\/a>. Metro celebrated full project funding in September 2024<\/a>. After working through options for the north end of the project<\/a>, the Metro board approved the project budget and scope in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Folks who walk, bike, bus or drive on Van Nuys Boulevard are seeing that construction is already underway. This will intensify in the months and years ahead. Metro currently anticipates that ESFV rail construction will finish in late 2031, with the new line opening to the public in 2032.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Metro rendering of future East San Fernando Valley light rail Arleta Station<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning, Metro and community leaders broke ground on Metro\u2019s East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit project…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,109921],"class_list":["post-501647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-promoted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}