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Warner Center station

bus rapid transit station in Los Angeles, California

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ14684246 ↗
Source-derived summary

Warner Center station is an intercity bus station and former bus rapid transit station in the eponymous commercial development in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California, United States.

When service began on the Orange Line (now the G Line) in 2005, Warner Center was the western terminus, and the only stop not on the dedicated busway. In 2012 an extension of the Orange Line opened to Chatsworth station, leaving Warner Center on a one-stop stub served by alternate buses.

Service to Warner Center station on the Orange Line ended on June 24, 2018, replaced by a shuttle that stopped in several locations around the Warner Center area before offering passengers a transfer to the Orange Line at Canoga station, running every 10 minutes.

The station remains standing as a transit hub for the area and is now served by several other bus lines.

Service

As of spring 2024, the following routes serve the Warner Center Transit Hub:

Los Angeles Metro Bus: 601

LADOT Commuter Express: 422 (stops nearby on West Oxnard Street)

Topanga Canyon Beach Bus

VCTC Intercity: Conejo Connection

References

"Orange Line station information". Archived from the original on October 14, 2010. Retrieved October 2, 2010.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Warner Center station” is bus rapid transit station in Los Angeles, California. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Warner, Center and station, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2012, 2018, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Warner, Center and station is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “bus rapid transit station in Los Angeles, California” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14684246. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2012, 2018 and 2024.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Warner Center station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Warner Center station primary sources, Warner Center station archive and Warner research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Warner Center station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Warner Center station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.