Reseda Boulevard, named Reseda Avenue until May 1929, is a major north–south arterial road that runs through the western San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.

Route

Reseda Boulevard runs approximately 12 mi from the Santa Monica Mountains at the Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park in the south to the Santa Susana Mountains and Porter Ranch in the north. It passes through Tarzana, Mulholland Park gated community, and El Caballero Country Club, then continues into the flats of the Valley through Reseda and Northridge, and ends in at Porter Ridge Park in Porter Ranch.

Communities

(Order is from south to north)

Transit

Metro Local line 240 runs along Reseda Boulevard. Reseda also crosses the G Line at its station located at its intersection with Oxnard Street. Reseda Boulevard is a targeted Vision Zero corridor and is included in Mayor Eric Garcetti's Great Streets Initiative which calls for protected bicycle lanes, bus boarding islands, hybrid protected left turn signals and improved bus shelters. Reseda Boulevard now has the longest stretch of protected bike lanes in Southern California. In 1977 the Los Angeles City Council failed to approve a plan to create a "Reseda to the Sea" link from the San Fernando Valley to L.A.'s Westside at Sunset Boulevard. Although no alternative plans were evaluated, the city continued to maintain an easement of the proposed alignment until at least 1991. This, along with an ongoing requirement that developers continue to dedicate and extend Reseda as far south as Mulholland Drive to improve fire safety, sparked criticism and protests by environmental and community activists. As of 2019, Reseda Boulevard has not been extended to Mulholland Drive.

Landmarks

(The landmarks are ordered south to north)

Northridge Earthquake

The epicenter of the 1994 Northridge earthquake was approximately one block west of Reseda Boulevard in the community of Reseda. Damage occurred throughout the San Fernando Valley, though areas of more widespread destruction followed the boulevard's northern course, including the Northridge Meadows Apartments, where sixteen people died when the top two floors collapsed on the ground-floor.

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