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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.

Vermont/Santa Monica
Vermont/Santa Monica station platform
General information
Other names	Vermont/Santa Monica/L.A. City College
Location	1015 North Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34.0903°N 118.2919°W / 34.0903; -118.2919
Owned by	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Los Angeles Metro Bus LADOT DASH
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Bicycle facilities	Metro Bike Share station[1] and racks
Architect	Ellerbe Becket & Robert Millar
History
Opened	June 12, 1999; 23 years ago (1999-06-12)
Services
Preceding station Metro Rail Following station Vermont/Sunset toward North Hollywood B Line Vermont/Beverly toward Union Station
Location

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

Station layout

Vermont/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.

Street	Street level	Exit/Entrance, Los Angeles City College
Mezzanine	North Mezzanine	Faregates, ticket machines, to Vermont/Santa Monica
	South Mezzanine	Faregates, ticket machines, to Los Angeles City College (Vermont/Willow Brook)
Platform	Northbound	←  B Line toward North Hollywood (Vermont/Sunset)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Southbound	→  B Line toward Union Station (Vermont/Beverly) →

Hours and frequency

B Line trains run every day between approximately 4:30 a.m. and midnight. Trains operate every ten minutes during peak hours Monday through Friday, and every twelve minutes during the daytime on weekdays and all day on the weekends after approximately 10 a.m. (with a 15-minute headway early Saturday and Sunday mornings). Night service is every 20 minutes.[2]

Connections

As of February 20, 2022^[update], the following connections are available:[3]

• Los Angeles Metro Bus: 4, 204, Rapid 754
• LADOT DASH: Hollywood

Station design

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.[4]

The station team received a Progressive Architecture Award for the design.[5]

References

Media related to Vermont/Santa Monica (Los Angeles Metro station) at Wikimedia Commons

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