NoHo to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Project Overview

Metro is planning bus rapid transit service between the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys. These areas were identified as the most heavily traveled without premium bus service.
The North Hollywood to Pasadena Corridor project would add an important link in Metro’s system - connecting the Metro Orange, Red and Gold Lines across North Hollywood, Burbank, Glendale, Eagle Rock and Pasadena.
Learn more and connect to the project at: www.metro.net/nohopasbrt

[@davidnissim9203]

Convert this to LRT as well as the Orange Line. Then you can have a light rail route running from Azusa to Chatsworth.

[@BDawg-zt2cu]

And one day the Crenshaw line can run from LAX all the way to Azusa via Inglewood, Hollywood, Glendale, Eagle Rock, Pasadena, all the way along 210 corridor and eventually to Claremont near San Bernardino County! This can also connect you to Rose Bowl when theres events going on there such as Concerts and UCLA football games!! 🔵🟡🏈 🕺🏻

[@peluso4oso]

Upgrade the bus to a light rail line and just build the thing already! Then you can link it up with the Gold line and possibly have the trains continue on-wards on the Gold Line eastbound.

[@davidlang1125]

Best idea! They can build it on the freeway just like the Gold Line to expedite the project and save a bunch of money.

[@wellerman6516]

That's technically a bad idea, because if the Metro Green Line, which is also a freeway operating light rail cost 4.9 billion dollars just to make the entire route as it is now, then what's the point of making another one if it's going to cause the exact same amount, especially if it's the exact same length? It should be a Metro bus, just not like the Metro Orange or Silver Lines. It should be like the Metro 442, 460, and 577. They just run along the freeway with a few stops along important places. Lastly, I'm only 13, and am obsessed with The Metropolitan Transit Agency. I am surprised that I came up with all of this.

[@vincentye3869]

@@wellerman6516 That is exactly what I would have said too.

[@wellerman6516]

@@vincentye3869 Thanks bro I appreciate a fellow Metro lover ✌✌

[@vincentye3869]

@@wellerman6516 Actually from Nor-cal but I can relate. BART here also runs in the middle of freeways for some of it's routes. Never been on the platforms but drove past them quite a few times. Can't imagine what the noise and long term hearing problems are going to be like catching a train there everyday. Guess those are the consequences for building rail lines so cheap in the middle of freeways.

[@kulkarniprabhanjan]

Please do make progress videos regularly so as to understand how exactly is that you are planning to make this BRT.

[@toolie2004]

NoHo resident here. I'm strongly in favor of any of the street running concepts over either of the freeway concepts. While complaints will be inevitable and pressure will come from many drivers over any project that restricts road space dedicated to passenger cars, the loss of a dedicated car lane on the highly travelled 134 will be far more visible and probably bring far more opposition than surface streets through already dense areas. It also seems like this could easily be imagined as an extension of the highly-used Orange Line BRT - which will eventually be converted to light rail - which means future Transit Oriented Design incentives and up-zoning opportunities should be taken into consideration along the potential route. To get the most bang for our buck, we need to have this route go through as many existing and potential walkable neighborhoods that can potentially hold enough residents, shops, and workplaces within a short walk of the stations to maximize usage. While I'd personally love to have the direct shot to Downtown Burbank that comes with the Magnolia or Chandler alternatives, I find it hard to see the political will in that corridor allowing for the up-zoning needed to beat out what's already existing and possible along the Olive alignment.

[@anitrain]

Just build it as light rail to start with, please.

[@TheVideoEditorGuy6579]

I agree

[@BDawg-zt2cu]

Expensive at first tho

[@WinterFrost-wf8ym]

Its more expensive to build a light rail than a bus

[@anitrain]

@@WinterFrost-wf8ym so? It’s cheaper than building the bus first and later converting it to light rail. Just do it right to start with.

[@jeffreychan9476]

I am curious would they build on street level or freeway level? Anyway express line 501 is the solution here, but it does not perform well in terms of ridership. 501 needs to serve popular destination such as Glendale Galleria/ Eagle Rock Plaza. 780 is the rapid route connecting between Pasadena and Glendale.

[@wellerman6516]

If you already have rapid transit for the Orange and Silver Lines, then just make it to where it's just an Express bus like the Metro 460 or 577

[@flukyreview9128]

0:16 the elderly Lady works at Universal NBC studios from Eagle Rock and wants a quicker route to work. Lady, just catch the 183 line westbound at Colorado and Verdugo and take it all the way to NOHO Station and then either take the red line down to Universal City Red LIne or connect with the S/B 224 line to Universal City Station. Its quicker than taking the Gold Line to the Red line station... The problem with people in Los Angeles is that they are clueless about how to get around using the Transit System compared to people in NYC..

[@partyboi82]

This so true people are so clueless about Transit in LA

[@TheVideoEditorGuy6579]

Or Rapid Line 780 to Hollywood / Vine and catch the Red line to NoHo.

[@flukyreview9128]

@@TheVideoEditorGuy6579 Yes, but that 780/180 line can get backed up in traffic around the Griffith Park area traveling Los Feliz Blvd... You want to avoid surface streets as possible in Los Angeles during rush hours...

[@danielday36]

I understand where you are coming from. It's not just LA that people are clueless about it transit but all over the USA. I'm a truck driver and when I'm stuck in a place, I'm on the local bus going to see the sights. Most if not all truck drivers would be whiny about being stuck instead of going to the beach or something.

[@jazzfan7491]

Great idea!

[@TheVideoEditorGuy6579]

Can you do The Orange Line to Green Line BRT just like NoHo to Pasadena.

[@BDawg-zt2cu]

TheVideoEditorGuy6579 Hey there buddy good to see your comment on here! By the way your vyond videos are epic and I can’t wait to see more of them. You might be interested in trains and transit too just like me!

[@TheVideoEditorGuy6579]

@@BDawg-zt2cu Yeah I am interested. Though, I don't really use this account to comment on Transit-related stuff often. But thanks, anyway

[@PDXLibertarian]

Woohoo, they had light rail on this transit corridor until 1941. #progress

[@alcortes173]

Good luck to the woman at 2:06 thinking she can use her laptop and sleep on the bus. She's only asking for trouble.

[@BDawg-zt2cu]

I think she’s saying that she always has to wake up super early for like a 2 hour long commute bc of traffic

[@mozeskertesz6398]

Convert it to a trolleybus or an LRT/Tram. More efficient, less maintenence costs, and less gas.

[@cathrynm]

This video is now 5 years old, and I still see no construction for this thing.

[@JuanGarcia-fi8ud]

501

[@oromedenep]

WOKING ON A LAPTOP WHILE RIDING A BUS

[@derekarmstrong2123]

If it's not LRT, it's a complete waste of time. And Metro knows it.

[@BDawg-zt2cu]

Derek Armstrong Ik right but can’t they just make it an orange line extension decades before it’s supposed to be convert to LRT?

[@ChaseWulff]

They sell all these BRT lines by saying it will be converted to train later. No one watching this video today will live long enough to see any BRT line currently operating in Los Angeles converted into train. Political whims change with the wind. When funding is low, mass transit is the first to go. Especially in a place like LA where cars rule and everyone is also so convinced that mass transit brings “undesirables” to their towns and neighborhoods. Read some of the comments on this video, for example. But, hey. BRT is better than nothing. Get it while you still can.

[@JosephDavenport-xd8er]

It takes me only 20 minutes from Burbank to Pasadena. I don't think this rapid transit thing on Olive Ave is needed - It's just more TRAFFIC

[@nuclearthreat545]

SPRAWL CAUSED THIS AND THIS ONLY SUPPORTS SPRAWL

[@davidlang1125]

j G I’ve heard that but I think it’s misleading. The essential point is that we do have sprawl and while the original comment about this “only supports sprawl”, the sprawl is already there and not near the area for this proposed service. The benefit is more about reduced pollution from fewer miles driven by single occupancy cars as well as time saved for commuters. So it’s a worthwhile project. Better yet would be to build it as a light rail on the 134 and connect with the Gold line at Memorial Park or Del Mar station.

[@flukyreview9128]

Hmmm... as I recall back in the 80s, the Orange LIne coming from Chatsworth station was originally planned to extend all they way to Pasadena using existing rail road tracks, but the City of Burbank, Glendale didn't want the bus route going through their neighborhood because it will attract undesirables into their cities. Now look at North Hollywood now where the Orange Line terminates. It's full of Homeless Street Thugs from the Ghettos of Los Angeles... I think Burbank and Glendale made a right choice indeed.

[@supertrampolinethebatpony3841]

"Homeless Street Thugs from the Ghettos" okay so you hate homeless people, that's cool.

[@GODzbleach]

@@supertrampolinethebatpony3841 i mean in a certain way he's not wrong

[@MetroWalt]

This line is another joke created by Metro.

[@raulsarmiento6875]

No through Colorado Blvd Eagle Rock. Let Elon Musk takeover and go underground. It will ruin our town and Eagle Rock Music Festival will be no more.

[@brendanregs]

I live in the neighborhood and couldn't disagree more.

[@raulsarmiento6875]

No you don’t. They will cut down the trees, center island, and make our street lanes even smaller. Go underground or pass by on 134

[@tobydamnit6942]

That would take forever and cost a bazillion times more. This is a game changer in a great way. ER Music festival can move to the park where they have the fireworks.

[@jamesarias4451]

These people are lying 🤥🤡 car is the fastest and safest way to go. How quick are the DOT buses?