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Vermont/Sunset 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 Sunset Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the Los Feliz, Silver Lake, and Little Armenia neighborhoods of East Hollywood in Los Angeles.

Vermont/Sunset
Vermont/Sunset station platform
General information
Location	1500 North Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34.0983°N 118.2917°W / 34.0983; -118.2917
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 lockers[2]
Architect	Diedrich Architects and Michael Davies
History
Opened	June 12, 1999; 23 years ago (1999-06-12)
Services
Preceding station Metro Rail Following station Hollywood/Western toward North Hollywood B Line Vermont/Santa Monica toward Union Station
Location

The intersection of Vermont and Sunset is home to three major area hospitals: Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center.[3]

The station also provides elevator access outside Kaiser Permanente, directly adjacent to and across the street from the main subway station entrance.

Service

Station layout

Vermont/Sunset 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.

G	Street level	Entrance/Exit
B1	Mezzanine	Faregates, ticket machines, to Entrance/Exit
B2	Northbound	← B Line toward North Hollywood (Hollywood/Western)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Southbound	→ B Line toward Union Station (Vermont/Santa Monica) →

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.[4]

Connections

As of February 20, 2022^[update], the following connections are available:[5]

• Los Angeles Metro Bus: 2, 182, 204, 206, 217 (late night only), Rapid 754
• LADOT DASH: Hollywood, Los Feliz, Griffith Observatory Shuttle

Station design

Vermont/Sunset, like many of the B Line stations, was designed by an artist/architect team. For this station, artist Michael Davies collaborated with the architectural firm Diedrich Architects. Their design features iconography that is commonly shared by astronomy and medicine, a nod to the hospitals surrounding the station and the nearby Griffith Park Observatory. The station floor and walls are inlaid with patterns of celestial orbits and microscopic images of life forms. Overhead a star chart maps the earth's placement in the universe. The building that houses the elevator at street level is domed, echoing the design of the observatory.[6]

References

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