Garden Grove, CA
Stop on the proposed 17,000-mile maglev network. Next stop: Anaheim, CA (4.5 mi).
About Garden Grove
Garden Grove is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States. The population was 171,949 at the 2020 census. State Route 22, also known as the Garden Grove Freeway, passes through the city in an east–west direction.
Source: Wikipedia summary (full article). Population and facts as published there.
Cost breakdown (proposal-scale estimates — see math)
| Item | Basis | Estimate |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal construction | Mid-size city terminal ($1–2B range) | $1.5B |
| Land acquisition | Regional factor 1.5× on $200M base | $300M |
| Track: Garden Grove → Anaheim | 4.5 mi × $500M/mi | $2.2B |
| Annual operations (share) | 2% of $1.5B terminal | $30M/yr |
| Stop total (excl. annual ops) | $4.0B |
Best terminal location (proposed)
The Garden Grove / Harbor Boulevard district. Harbor Boulevard is the corridor's commercial spine, with aging retail parcels ripe for transit-oriented redevelopment. The city's bus network already funnels through the Harbor corridor. The catchment is central Orange County's dense suburbs plus Disneyland-adjacent tourism spillover — millions of visitors stay within a few miles of here.
Before / after
Aerial mock-up (illustrative, not an engineering rendering). Left: the proposed site today. Right: with the maglev terminal.
- Stanton — small city on the corridor between Garden Grove and Anaheim.
- West Anaheim / Brookhurst district — commercial corridor on the eastern approach.