Vermont/Santa Monica station (also known as Vermont/Santa Monica/L.A. City College station) is an underground rapid transit (known locally as a subway) station on the B Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located under Vermont Avenue at its intersection with Santa Monica Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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 Vermont/Santa Monica station platform | |||||||||||
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| Other names | Vermont/Santa Monica/L.A. City College | ||||||||||
| Location | 1015 North Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, California | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°05′25″N 118°17′31″W / 34.0903°N 118.2919°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Metro Bike Share station[1] and racks | ||||||||||
| Architect | Ellerbe Becket & Robert Millar | ||||||||||
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| Opened | June 12, 1999 | ||||||||||
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| FY 2024 | 2,438 (avg. wkdy boardings)[2] | ||||||||||
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Vermont/Santa Monica has two entrances on Vermont Avenue, a north entrance and a south entrance. The north entrance faces Santa Monica Boulevard. The south entrance, near Lockwood Avenue, is adjacent to Los Angeles City College and three blocks from the Braille Institute.
Service
editStation layout
editVermont/Santa Monica is a two-story station; the top level is a mezzanine with ticket machines while the bottom is the platform level. The station uses a simple island platform with two tracks.
Hours and frequency
editB Line trains run every day between approximately 4:30 a.m. and midnight. Trains operate every 12 minutes during peak hours. Early morning and night service is approximately every 20 minutes.[3]
Connections
editAs of spring 2024, the following connections are available:[4]
- Los Angeles Metro Bus: 4, 204, 217 (late night only), Rapid 754
- LADOT DASH: Hollywood
Station design
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Vermont/Santa Monica, like many of the B Line stations, was designed by an artist/architect team. For this station, artist Robert Millar collaborated with the architectural firm Ellerbe Becket with Mehrdad Yazdani as lead designer. The centerpiece of their design is the large stainless steel “wing” canopy over the entrance at the corner of Vermont & Santa Monica, along with skylights that flood the 42-foot high space with light during the day, and become a brightly lit “stage” at night.
The team also worked with the nearby Braille Institute and LA City College to incorporate a variety of interesting textures into the design and Robert Millar layered thousands of subtly painted questions onto the concrete surfaces of the station.[5]
The station team received a Progressive Architecture Award for the design.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Station Map". Metro Bike Share. January 27, 2015. Archived from the original on January 2, 2022. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
- ^ "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.
- ^ "Metro B Line schedule". Metro. September 12, 2021. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
- ^ "B & D Line Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 11, 2022. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 14, 2022. Retrieved December 14, 2022.
- ^ "Untitled". Metro Art. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
- ^ "Progressive Architecture Awards: Metro Red Line Station" (PDF). Progressive Architecture. 73 (1): 68. January 1992. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
External links
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Media related to Vermont/Santa Monica (Los Angeles Metro station) at Wikimedia Commons