Overview
The West Santa Ana Transit Corridor is a railroad right-of-way (ROW) that extends for approximately 20 miles between the City of Paramount in Los Angeles County and the City of Santa Ana in Orange County. The railroad corridor was once part of the Pacific Electric (PE) Railway, or Red Car system that provided mass transit service to Southern California from 1901 to 1961. Metro purchased the Los Angeles portion of the corridor which is referred to as the West Santa Ana Branch in the 1990s. Much of the corridor has been abandoned and is not currently used for mass transit purposes. The Measure R sales tax measure that was approved by the voters of Los Angeles County in November 2008 provided $240 million match towards the corridor’s total project cost.
In coordination with Metro and the Orange County Transportation Agency (OCTA), the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the region, is conducting an Alternatives Analysis (AA) study to examine the range of potential transit service opportunities that could be implemented along the corridor to reduce congestion on nearby streets and freeways, and provide adjacent communities with access to the regional transit network. While focusing on the former PEROW, the study is evaluating possible connections 12 miles north to Union Station, and 2 miles south to the City of Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (SARTC) for a total of 34 miles. Potential project alternatives under evaluation in the AA include two Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) options, four Light Rail Transit (LRT), Street Car, and Low Speed Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) options along with “No-Build” and Transportation Systems Management (TSM) improvements.
For more information about the AA study, please contact Philip Law, SCAG Project Manager at 213.236.1841 or law@scag.ca.gov.
Last Revised
Wednesday March 13, 2013
Upcoming Meetings
There are no West Santa Ana Transit Corridor meetings scheduled at this time. Please check back for updates.
Last Revised
Tuesday January 22, 2013
Showing the latest posts relating to: West Santa Ana
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Posted by Steve Hymon on May 24, 2012 12:24 pm
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The final route and station locations of the second and third phase of the Westside Subway Extension were approved by the Metro Board of Directors on Thursday by a vote of seven to two. ...
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Posted by Steve Hymon on May 23, 2012 2:22 pm
- ALAN THOMAS: The slaying of Metro bus operator Alan Thomas on Sunday was — like so many crimes — beyond senseless. Alan was driving a bus in West Hollywood detoured by a bike race when a ...
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Posted by Steve Hymon on May 22, 2012 12:12 pm
- Metro has prepared a proposed decision with written findings regarding the reasonableness of the Westside Subway Extension’s Century City station at Constellation and Avenue of the Stars, which ...
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Posted by Steve Hymon on April 26, 2012 1:00 pm
- A map showing the Metro staff recommended project. Click above to see a larger map.
After nearly five years of planning and scores of public meetings, the Metro Board of Directors on Thursday ...
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Posted by Carter Rubin on March 15, 2012 12:11 pm
- A proposal from 1961 would have linked El Monte to Westwood via downtown. The threat of a Soviet nuclear attack meant planners could pitch subway stations as fallout shelters too.
It’s a simple ...
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Posted by Steve Hymon on October 20, 2011 4:23 pm
- Lucy Jones, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, explains faulting to reporters after yesterday's Board committee meeting. Photo by Gayle Anderson/Metro.
The pair of reports on ...
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Posted by Steve Hymon on October 19, 2011 1:53 pm
- The following was compiled by Metro. I’m posting it here as a companion to the previous post about seismic and tunneling issues along the Westside Subway Extension:
Some of the world’s ...
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Posted by Carter Rubin on October 12, 2011 3:06 pm
- Westwood Village then and now. Image via Curbed via cityLAB.
Of all the neighborhoods slated to be connected to the growing Measure R transit network, perhaps none generates as much interest and ...
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Posted by Carter Rubin on June 14, 2011 5:20 pm
- Community members peruse displays highlighting local mobility issues.
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation held the first of a series of spring community meetings last night in Venice. The ...
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Posted by Steve Hymon on October 15, 2010 10:00 am
- The West Santa Ana Branch corridor. Click above for a larger image.
One of the Measure R projects that has received fairly little attention is the West Santa Ana Branch corridor. It’s an old ...
