Memorial Park station
Preceding station | Metro Rail | Following station | ||
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Lake toward Azusa | A Line | Del Mar toward Long Beach |
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Memorial Park station is a below-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located at Holly Street and at the end of Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, California. The station is named after the nearby Memorial Park and is situated on the northern edge of Old Town Pasadena.
Memorial Park station was built in a trench beneath the Holly Street Village Apartments, which was constructed with the trench in 1994 in anticipation of a light rail station at this site. Memorial Park station opened on July 26, 2003, as part of the original Gold Line, then known as the "Pasadena Metro Blue Line" project.
The station features a work of art, The First Artists in Southern California: A Short Story, created by artist John Valadez. The over 100-foot-long (30 m) artwork, fabricated from aluminum, honors cave paintings made by the indigenous peoples of the Pasadena area.[1]
It is one of the A Line stations near the Rose Parade route on Colorado Boulevard and is heavily used by people coming to see the parade.[2] The station is also located near the Rose Bowl Shuttle, which stops at the Parsons Corporation headquarters building and offers service to most events at the stadium. During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from the Rose Bowl.[3]
Service
Station layout
G | Street level | Entrance/Exit | |
P Platform level | Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Northbound | ← A Line toward Azusa (Lake) | ||
Southbound | → A Line toward Long Beach (Del Mar) → | ||
Side platform, doors will open on the right |
Hours and frequency
A Line service hours are from approximately 4:30 a.m. and 11:45 p.m daily. Trains operate every 8 minutes during peak hours, Monday through Friday. During weekday midday and weekends from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., trains run every 10 minutes. Night and early morning service is approximately every 20 minutes every day.[4]
Connections
As of spring 2024, the following connections are available:[5]
- Amtrak Thruway: 19 (at 168 South Las Robles Avenue).[6]
- ArtCenter College of Design Shuttle (students/staff only)[7]
- Foothill Transit: 187, 686 Rose Bowl Shuttle (service to events at Rose Bowl stadium)[8]
- LADOT Commuter Express: 549
- Los Angeles Metro Bus: 177, 180, 256, 260, 501 (NoHo-Pasadena Express), 660
- Pasadena Transit: 20, 40, 51, 52
Future
This station will connect with the North Hollywood to Pasadena Transit Corridor, a new bus rapid transit line in the Metro Busway network. As of 2024[update], BRT service is scheduled to begin in late 2027.[9][10]
Notable places nearby
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
- Armory Center for the Arts
- Fuller Theological Seminary
- Gamble House
- Memorial Park & Levitt Pavilion
- Norton Simon Museum
- Old Pasadena
- USC Pacific Asia Museum
- Pasadena City Hall
- Pasadena Civic Center District
- Pasadena Museum of History
- The Paseo
References
- ^ "The First Artists in Southern California: A Short Story". Metro Art. Archived from the original on October 24, 2021.
- ^ "Riding Metro on New Year's Day". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on August 21, 2021. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
- ^ http://la24-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/pdf/LA2024-canditature-part2_english.pdf Archived October 12, 2016, at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Metro A Line schedule". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
- ^ "A Line Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. p. 2. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ^ https://www.amtrak.com/stations/pas
- ^ "ArtCenter College of Design Shuttle Route" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on November 29, 2021. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
- ^ "Rose Bowl Shuttle Service". Foothill Transit. August 28, 2021. Archived from the original on November 29, 2021. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
- ^ "That Rapid Bus Line from North Hollywood to Pasadena is Officially Happening". MSN. Archived from the original on March 23, 2023. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
- ^ Scauzillo, Steve (February 20, 2024). "Long-planned NoHo-to-Pasadena rapid bus line gains momentum, but road blocks await". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
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