Orange Line to Chatsworth

I just yesterday saw the Orange Line station being built at Canoga Avenue, and now there's talk of extending the line north to Chatsworth.

Sounds like a good idea to me. For one thing, it would get people a whole lot closer to CSUN (albeit dumping them a bit far west) a whole lot quicker. And it would give people taking the Metrolink train to the Chatsworth station a way of getting into Warner Center and the rest of the Valley proper.

Target date for completion: 2012. The downside: It would mean displacing 36 businesses leasing MTA land.

The story by Rachel Uranga and Sue Doyle does point out that there's greater need for a busway along Van Nuys Boulevard, adding the following:

"The idea is that this is the first in a series of improvements," said Richard Katz, a mayoral appointee to the MTA board. "It's not the end-all or the be-all."

I hope this doesn't stop the MTA from extending the Orange Line from Canoga Avenue to Owensmouth Avenue, somewhere between Vanowen Street and Victory Boulevard -- if it doesn't go to the Westfield Topanga mall, what good is it, anyway?