Vermont/Santa Monica station

For the E Line station, see Downtown Santa Monica station.

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 (1999-06-12)
Passengers
FY 2024	2,438 (avg. wkdy boardings)[2]
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.

Hours and frequency

B Line trains run every day between approximately 4:30 a.m. and midnight. Trains operate every 12 minutes during peak hours. Early morning and night service is approximately every 20 minutes.^[3]

Connections

As of September 10, 2023^[update], the following connections are available:^[4]

• LADOT DASH: Hollywood
• Los Angeles Metro Bus: 4, 204, 217 (late night only), Rapid 754

Station design

The entrance of the station with the sign pillar design of 2003–2014

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.^[5]

The station team received a Progressive Architecture Award for the design.^[6]