Sherman Way station (G Line)

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Sherman Way
G Line 
HSY- Los Angeles Metro, Sherman Way, Platform 1.jpg
Sherman Way station platform
Location21384 Sherman Way
Los Angeles, California
Coordinates34°12′03″N 118°35′51″W / 34.20095°N 118.59746°W / 34.20095; -118.59746Coordinates: 34°12′03″N 118°35′51″W / 34.20095°N 118.59746°W / 34.20095; -118.59746
Owned byMetro
Platforms2 side platforms
ConnectionsMetro Local
Construction
Parking207 spaces[1]
Bicycle facilitiesRacks and lockers
Disabled accessYes
History
OpenedJune 30, 2012; 9 years ago (2012-06-30)
Services
Preceding station LAMetroLogo.svg Metro Busway Following station
Roscoe
toward Chatsworth
G Line Canoga
Location

Sherman Way is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system located at Sherman Way in downtown Canoga Park — a community of Los Angeles in the western San Fernando Valley. The station is in service on the Metro G Line Chatsworth Extension. It opened in June 2012.

Sherman Way station is located on the intersection of Canoga Avenue and Sherman Way. The station features similar station amenities as the existing Orange Line stations. Station art is added to the station.[2]

It has a parking lot with 207 spaces along with bicycle lockers.[3]

Service[]

Station layout[]

Side platform, doors will open on the right
Westbound  G Line toward Chatsworth (Roscoe)
Eastbound  G Line toward North Hollywood (Canoga)
Side platform, doors will open on the right

Metro Busway service[]

G Line service operates 24 hours a day.[4]

Bus connections[]

Nearby destinations[]

  • Downtown Canoga Park shops, antiques row
  • Madrid Theater

History[]

Owensmouth station, later Canoga Park, c. 1915

Southern Pacific built their Canoga Park station along the Burbank branch in 1912. The station building was on the north side of Sherman Way.[5] The same year, the Pacific Electric Owensmouth Line was completed to Owensmouth,[6]: 40  crossing the tracks at Sherman Way.[7] Southern Pacific ceased passenger service on the line in 1920,[8] and Pacific Electric stopped running cars here after 1938.[6]: 42  The old station building was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in May 1990, three years before the structure was destroyed in a fire.

The Orange Line was constructed over the former Burbank branch, with bus rapid transit service starting at the newly built station on June 30, 2012.

Sherman Way is named after General Moses Sherman, due his land development and rail lines he built in the valley.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Metro Parking Lots by Line". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  2. ^ "L.A.Metro: Chatsworth extension". Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Metro Orange Line ExtensionProject Fact sheet" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Metro Orange Line Timetable" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. June 24, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  5. ^ "Canoga Park (original Owensmouth Southern Pacific R.R. Station)". Office of Historic Resources, Department of City Planning. City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  6. ^ a b Veysey, Laurence R. (June 1958). A History Of The Rail Passenger Service Operated By The Pacific Electric Railway Company Since 1911 And By Its Successors Since 1953 (PDF). LACMTA (Report). Los Angeles, California: Interurbans. ASIN B0007F8D84.
  7. ^ Zelzah (Map). United States Geological Survey. 1928. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  8. ^ Curtiss, Aaron (7 April 1996). "Tracks to the Past". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  9. ^ Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California, San Fernando Valley Line

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