Van Nuys station is a temporarily closed bus rapid transit station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. It has been closed since February 21, 2025, when upgrades began as part of the G Line Improvements Project. It will be rebuilt as an above-grade station on a viaduct over Van Nuys Boulevard, a north-south arterial road that previously ran adjacent and perpendicular to the station, and for which the station is named. The station serves the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley.^[4]

The G Line Bikeway ran alongside the station before its closure, and 1.36 miles (2.19km) of the Bikeway between Sepulveda Boulevard and Tyrone Avenue were closed along with the station. The Bikeway is planned to be rebuilt along with the construction of the viaduct, but final design has not been finalized or published. During Phase A of construction, the Bikeway detour begins at Sepulveda station, follows Erwin Avenue, Delano Street, and Calvert Street with small north-south sections on Noble and Sylmar Avenues. During Phase B, the detour will become smaller, allowing bike riders to reconnect to the Bikeway at Kester Avenue.^[5]

G Line buses run 24 hours a day. Buses operate every eight minutes during peak hours on weekdays. They operate every ten minutes during the daytime on weekdays and most of the day on weekends. Night service on all days is every 20 minutes.^[6]

As of February 20, 2025, the following connections were available:^[7]

• Los Angeles Metro Bus:

• Local: 154, 233, 237
• Rapid: 761

• LADOT DASH: Van Nuys/Studio City

The corridor on which Van Nuys station sits was a rail line, the Burbank Line, built through the San Fernando Valley by Southern Pacific in 1893.

When the Montalvo Cutoff was constructed in 1904, most traffic was diverted over a new mainline which ran diagonally across the valley and the tracks were relegated to branch status.^[8]

In 1911, the Pacific Electric Owensmouth Line was opened, travelling north-south on Van Nuys Boulevard between Chandler Boulevard and Sherman Way. This is why Chandler Boulevard's western terminus features a wide radius turn onto Van Nuys Boulevard, and why Sherman Circle, a similar wide-radius turn road connecting Van Nuys Boulevard and Sherman Way, survives to this day.^[9][10]

The Orange Line (now the G Line) began operations over the former Burbank branch with new facilities to serve rapid buses on October 29, 2005.

Van Nuys station was closed at 12:01am on February 21, 2025. The next G Line bus, scheduled for 12:15am, was diverted onto Oxnard Street, where a three-year long-term detour stop will pick up passengers at the intersection of Oxnard and Van Nuys Boulevard.^[11][12]

When the East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project is built, it will take over a portion of the old Owensmouth Line between the G Line and Sherman Way.

As part of the G Line Improvements Project, which aims to increase bus speeds and capacity through the corridor, the station is planned to be rebuilt on a grade-separated bridge to decrease interference from traffic.^[13]

Van Nuys station will serve as the southern terminus of the East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project light rail line in 2031.^[14][15] In June 2018, Metro staff recommended light rail as the preferred transport mode along this route. This route will connect to Amtrak and Metrolink's Van Nuys train station and Sylmar/San Fernando Metrolink station to the north. Additionally, the Sepulveda Transit Corridor service may connect to the station if Alternative 6 is chosen.

• Van Nuys Municipal Building
• Van Nuys Branch

• LA Metro: Orange Line Timetable Archived May 16, 2013, at the Wayback Machine - schedules
• LA Metro: Orange Line map and stations Archived October 14, 2010, at the Wayback Machine - route map and station addresses and features
• Orange Line history
• LA Metro - countywide: official website