Five alternatives have been released by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (L.A. Metro) staff to be studied as part of the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project’s environmental review process.

The five alternatives are:

• A monorail alternative along the 405.
• A monorail alternative with an underground segment to connect to UCLA
• A heavy rail (i.e. with trains similar to Metro’s B/D (Red/Purple) Line alternative that would travel underground with an aerial section along Sepulveda Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley.
• A heavy rail alternative that is underground, including along Sepulveda Boulevard in the Valley.
• A heavy rail alternative that is underground, including along Van Nuys Boulevard in the Valley.

In March, the L.A. Metro Board awarded contracts to a pair of firms to do pre-development work on two different potential transit solutions.

• LA SkyRail Express is developing its proposed monorail concept that would follow the 405 freeway and take 24 minutes to travel between the Van Nuys Metrolink station and the E Line.
• Sepulveda Transit Corridor Partners – Bechtel is developing a proposed heavy rail line that would be 60 percent underground with the rest mostly aerial. That line would take 20 minutes

The idea behind the selection of these five alternatives is to study the two proposed PDA transit solutions along with other options that emerged from the feasibility study.