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TonyW79SFV

Sepulveda Pass Transit - Maglev?

History

While looking up the history of planning for the San Fernando East-West Rail project (which is today's G Line BRT today), I came across an interesting diagram in a 1992 document for the SFV E-W project, one of the alternatives is rail following the 101 Freeway, but at the 405 Freeway it intersects another proposed line, an LAX to Palmdale Line, which had me go down a rabbit hole and then I came across a 1990 document about the LAX to Palmdale project, which was proposed to be Maglev! It listed travel time of just a half hour from Santa Clarita to LAX!

[1990 LAX to Palmdale maglev proposal]

https://web.archive.org/web/20200413085347/https://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/lax-to-palmdale/1990-lax-to-palmdale-transit-caltrans-privatization-project-volume-3-technical-proposal.pdf

[1992 SFV East-West rail proposal]

https://web.archive.org/web/20200325024530/https://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/eirs/SFV_EastWest/1992-July-SFVEastWest-RailTransit-VenturaFreewayAerialAlternative.pdf

Posted Mar 30, 2026, 6:00 AM UTC

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