Vermont/Sunset (LACMTA station)

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Vermont/Sunset

Station statistics

Address

1500 N. Vermont Av., Los Angeles 90027

Lines

Metro Red Line

Platforms

Island platform

Parking

None

Bicycle facilities

10 Bike Rack Spaces
4 Locker Spaces

Other information

Opened

June 12, 1999

Accessible

Vermont/Sunset is station is on the Metro Red line, it is located between the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Los Feliz, Silver Lake, and East Hollywood's community of Little Armenia.

The station serves a triad of hospitals that are in the area: Kaiser Permanente, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. The main entry is on the northeast corner of Vermont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard next to the Saban Research building of CHLA. There is also an elevator-only access on the northwest corner in front of Kaiser.

Michael Davies is the artist for the Vermont/Sunset station, depicting several different themes, the main ones being medical colors (blue) and slides blended with a futuristic space theme. The medical slides placed into circular orbits on the floor of the upper platform area (theme - planets, solar system) are real slides of human cellular structures, including red blood cells, chromosomes, egg and sperm.