Council to Consider Metrolink Station

The Ventura City Council will decide Monday whether to build in Montalvo the county’s fifth Metrolink station.

The plan, which would cost $1 million in already allocated federal funds, calls for a platform, a wall separating the adjacent neighborhood from the station and a road running between Johnson Drive and Ventura Boulevard. Two commuter trains already stay overnight in Montalvo before moving to Oxnard without passengers every morning.

At a meeting last month, some Montalvo residents expressed concern about overflow parking spilling into their neighborhood.

But city and county officials stress there would be adequate parking spaces and no access to neighborhood streets.

“Many of them recognize the station would probably improve the neighborhood,” city engineer Rick Raives said. “Metrolink tries very hard to be a good neighbor.”