Placentia is a proposed
Metrolink infill station
An infill station (sometimes in-fill station) is
a train station built on an existing passenger rail, rapid transit, or light rail line to address demand in a location between existing stations. Such stations take advantage of existing train serv ...
located in
the city of the same name along Metrolink's
91/Perris Valley Line.
The
Orange County Transportation Authority
The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is the transportation planning commission for Orange County, California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. OCTA is responsible for funding and implementing transit and capital projects for th ...
(OCTA) started discussing the station as early as 2012.
A station planned for neighboring
Yorba Linda
Yorba Linda is a suburban city in northeastern Orange County, California, United States, approximately southeast of Downtown Los Angeles. It is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and had a population of 68,336 at the 2020 census.
Yo ...
was rejected by its local city council on March 16, 2004. The project was approved by the city in 2016, with construction planned to begin in 2018.
A former
packing house
A packing house is a facility where fruit is received and processed prior to distribution to market.
Bulk fruit (such as apples, oranges, pears, and the like) is delivered to the plant via trucks or wagons, where it is dumped into receiving bins ...
was demolished on the site to make way for the station.
construction was repeatedly delayed, owing to negotiations between Metrolink and the track's owners,
BNSF
BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...
. In January 2020, it was announced that construction of the Placentia Metrolink station would begin later in the year, with the station expected to be open by June 2022, but it has once again been delayed, with OCTA claiming construction of the project is "on hold".
The cost of the project is due at $34.8 million,
of which the city pledged $5.4 million.
In 2014, the project was pegged at an estimated $23.42 million,
while a 2012 estimate was between $7.5–9 million.
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