Orange Line (Los Angeles Metro)

Metro Orange Line
Metro Liner at North Hollywood Station
Overview
Type	Bus rapid transit
System	Metro Liner
Status	In service
Termini	North Hollywood Chatsworth / Warner Center
Stations	18
Daily ridership	22,469 (July 2016)
Line number	901
Website	Orange Line
Operation
Opened	October 29, 2005; 11 years ago (2005-10-29)
Operator(s)	Metro (LACMTA)
Character	At-grade exclusive right-of-way
Depot(s)	Division 8 (West Valley)
Rolling stock	NABI 60-BRT & 45C-LFW (shuttle)
Technical
Line length	18 mi (29.0 km)
Route map      Ventura County Line to East Ventura Chatsworth           Ventura County Line to Union Station Nordhoff Roscoe Sherman Way Los Angeles River Warner Center Canoga De Soto Pierce College Tampa Reseda Los Angeles River Balboa Bull Creek Woodley I-405 Sepulveda Van Nuys Woodman Valley College Tujunga Wash Laurel Canyon SR 170 North Hollywood     Metro Red Line to Union Station This diagram:

The Orange Line is a bus rapid transit line in the Metro Busway network in Los Angeles County, California. It operates between Chatsworth or Warner Center (trips alternate between the two western terminals) and the North Hollywood Metro Station in the San Fernando Valley where it connects with the Metro Red Line on the Metro Rail system for Downtown Los Angeles. The other line in the Metro Busway network is the Metro Silver Line. The 18-mile (29 km) Orange Line uses a dedicated, exclusive right-of-way with stations located at approximately one-mile intervals; tickets (via TAP cards) are purchased from ticket machines on the platforms before boarding to improve performance. The Metro Orange Line bicycle path runs alongside part of the route. Unlike the Silver Line, which has a street-running sections within downtown Los Angeles and San Pedro, the Chatsworth branch of the Orange Line runs in a dedicated right-of-way for its entire length. The Warner Center branch includes several blocks of street running in the Warner Center area.

The line, which is operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), opened on October 29, 2005, with a construction cost of $324 million. The route follows part of the Southern Pacific Railroad's former Burbank Branch Line which provided passenger rail service from 1904 to 1920; it was subsequently used by Pacific Electric streetcars from 1938 to 1952.