Oxnard Transit Center

Oxnard, CA
Morning view from the southeast of the station, 2014
Other names	Oxnard Transit Center
Location	201 East Fourth Street Oxnard, California 93030 United States
Coordinates	34°11′58″N 119°10′34″W / 34.19944°N 119.17611°W / 34.19944; -119.17611Coordinates: 34°11′58″N 119°10′34″W / 34.19944°N 119.17611°W / 34.19944; -119.17611
Owned by	City of Oxnard
Line(s)	Coast Line
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Train operators	Metrolink Amtrak
Bus stands	16
Bus operators	Gold Coast Transit VISTA Greyhound Lines
Construction
Structure type	Modern 14,000 square foot (1,300 m2) brick building
Parking	Free short and long term
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Architect	Joan Briggs
Other information
Status	Staffed
Station code	Amtrak code: OXN
History
Opened	1987; 35 years ago (1987)
Electrified	No
Previous names	Oxnard Transportation Center
Passengers
2018	103,074[1]  9.65% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station Santa Barbara toward Seattle Coast Starlight Simi Valley toward Los Angeles Ventura toward San Luis Obispo Pacific Surfliner Camarillo (limited service) toward Los Angeles or San Diego Preceding station Metrolink Following station East Ventura Terminus Ventura County Line Camarillo toward Los Angeles Union Station
Location

The Oxnard Transit Center, originally known as the Oxnard Transportation Center, is an intermodal transit center in historic downtown Oxnard, California. As a transit hub, the station serves Amtrak and Metrolink trains as well as local and regional buses. Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, Amtrak's Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to Seattle, Washington, and Metrolink's Ventura County Line from Los Angeles Union Station to East Ventura stop here. Ten Pacific Surfliner trains serve the station daily, and six Metrolink trains serve the station each weekday. The Coast Starlight operates one train daily in each direction.^[2]

Of the 74 California stations served by Amtrak, Oxnard was the 28th-busiest in FY2012, boarding or detraining an average of approximately 223 passengers daily.^[3]

Platforms and tracks[]

Transit connections[]

Gold Coast Transit[]

1A/B – Oxnard – Port Hueneme
2 – Colonia
3 – Oxnard – Naval Base
4A/B – North Oxnard
5 – Seabridge
6 – Oxnard – Ventura
8 – Centerpoint Mall, via Oxnard College
19/20 – Central Oxnard

VISTA[]

Conejo Connection – Oxnard – Camarillo – Thousand Oaks – Warner Center Transit Hub

Other connections[]

• Greyhound San Francisco/Los Angeles
• City of Oxnard Dial-a-Ride

Neighborhood and destinations[]

• Carnegie Art Museum
• Henry T. Oxnard Historic District

History[]

The Southern Pacific Railroad constructed a wye at Montalvo in late 1897 on the original route connecting Ventura to Los Angeles through the Santa Clara River Valley. This spur was needed for shipping construction equipment to the site of a new beet sugar refinery. A wooden railroad trestle and rail line were constructed over the Santa Clara River as the spur headed south, reaching the new settlement here on the relatively isolated coastal plain in April 1898.^[4] The rail line turned here from the north–south alignment to east–west towards Camarillo as they continued building the towards Santa Susana in the Simi Valley. With the completion of the Santa Susana Tunnel connecting the line to Burbank, this became the most direct route between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The new settlement was named after the factory owner and in 1904 traffic on the coast railroad line was rerouted through Oxnard.^[5]

In 1987, the current station was constructed on the northerly end of the curve while the former station remained at the southerly end. The former Oxnard depot has continued in use as a maintenance and freight yard office by Union Pacific.

Oxnard Transit Center portal

Metrolink service started on April 4, 1994, after the Northridge earthquake damaged Simi Valley Freeway and the Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed to temporarily fund the extension of service. The trains were stored overnight in a temporary layover facility in the Montalvo neighborhood of Ventura where the Santa Paula branch line owned by the Ventura County Transportation Commission connects to the Coast Line.^[6]

The station was formerly on State Route 1 but in 2014, Oxnard Boulevard was relinquished to the city in anticipation of a bypass route east of the Oxnard that would meet US 101 at the rebuilt interchange at Rice Avenue. In 2015, a southbound Metrolink train left this station and crashed into a truck at Rice Avenue about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the station injuring several passengers and an engineer (fatally). A Rice Avenue overpass that would take the rerouted State Route 1 over the rail line has long been proposed at the site where the accident occurred. The new overpass would include an interchange with State Route 34 (known as 5th Street for most of the route) that parallels the rail line to Camarillo.^[7]

Northbound Surfliner pulling into the station where a regional bus is parked. A local bus boards passengers at the covered island platform.

References[]

External links[]

• Media related to Oxnard Transportation Center at Wikimedia Commons
• Amtrak California Station Info Page
• Oxnard, CA – Amtrak
• City of Oxnard official site
• Oxnard at the Metrolink website
• Oxnard Transportation Center official site
• Oxnard (OXN)--Great American Stations (Amtrak)