Editing Placentia, California (section)

== Transportation ==
The [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]] [[91/Perris Valley Line]] passes through the southern portion of the city. The city has been preparing the area of a proposed new station located at Melrose Avenue and Crowther Avenue in Old Town Placentia. [[Placentia Station]] is estimated to cost $35&nbsp;million; the city will contribute $5.4&nbsp;million. A tentative completion date was set for June 2022, but construction is now "on hold" pending further negotiations with [[BNSF]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lenberg |first1=Tatum |title=Murals, construction are revitalizing Placentia's downtown and historic area |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2020/01/06/murals-construction-are-revitalizing-placentias-downtown-and-historic-area/ |website=The Orange County Register |date=January 6, 2020 |accessdate=March 9, 2020}}</ref>

In 2007, the city became [[Train whistle#Noise complaints from train whistles|the first city to implement a quiet zone]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Reyes |first1=David |title=Placentia likes the sound of quiet zone designation |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-29-me-quiet29-story.html |access-date=June 30, 2021 |agency=Los Angeles Times |date=June 29, 2007}}</ref> for the cargo-carrying trains that pass through the city daily, using locomotive grade-crossing predictors and intercrossing ground-based radio communications to effect a corridor where crossing gate arms become actuated prior to the train's approach, enabling trains to not be required to announce their approach by sounding the [[Morse code]] letter "Q" on their whistles, which is otherwise mandated by the [[Federal Railroad Administration]]. The city's [http://www.placentia.org/191/Quiet-Zone-Update Quiet-Zone-Update web pages] offer information on the zone's scope and any temporary or long-term alterations to the quiet zone.

The city is served by the [[Orange County Transportation Authority]]'s [[OC Bus|bus routes]], with:

* Route 129 running also Kraemer Blvd
* Route 71 running along Rose Drive 
* Route 26 running along Yorba Linda Blvd
* Route 123 running along Chapman Avenue
* Route 30 running along Orangethorpe Avenue<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.octa.net/ebusbook/routePdf/NorthCounty.pdf |title=OCTA North Orange County System Map |publisher=Orange County Transportation Authority |access-date=October 16, 2019}}</ref>

The [[2002 Placentia train collision]] occurred on April 23, 2002, when a [[BNSF Railway]] freight train collided [[Head-on collision|head-on]] with a [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink train]] in Placentia, near the Atwood Junction, at the intersection of Orangethorpe Avenue and Van Buren Street. Two people died in the crash and 22 were seriously injured.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.trainweb.com/derailments/2002d23a.html| publisher=TrainWeb| title=Metrolink/BNSF Collision| accessdate=June 28, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/RAR0304.aspx| title=Collision of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Freight Train With Metrolink Passenger Train| author=National Transportation Safety Board| date=October 7, 2003| accessdate=June 6, 2015}}</ref>