Five development teams will vie for the opportunity to help the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority build a heavy-rail public transit corridor through Sepulveda Pass in the rugged Santa Monica Mountains, creating a high-capacity, high-speed connection between the city’s west side and the San Fernando Valley.
Projected to cost nearly $14 billion, the new transit line is envisioned to relieve crowding on the I-405 freeway, one of the nation’s busiest and frequently congested freeway corridors, with daily traffic volume regularly surpassing 400,000 vehicles a day.