Arcadia station

Arcadia
General information
Location	200 N First Avenue, Arcadia
Owned by	Metro
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	300 spaces
Bicycle facilities	TBD
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Status	Completed
History
Opened	c. 1911
Closed	1954
Rebuilt	March 5, 2016
Services
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Arcadia is a completed at-grade light rail station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system located at the intersection of 1st Avenue and Santa Clara Street in Arcadia, California. When it re-opens, this station will be served by the Metro Gold Line.

This station is currently approved for design/construction as part of the Gold Line Foothill Extension project Phase 2A. It will open on March 5, 2016. A overpass bridge was constructed over Santa Anita Ave, as so the Gold Line rail should not slow traffic on the Santa Anita double drive.

Former station

Former bridge

In Arcadia, in the past, there was a steel railroad bridge that transitioned the old Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in between the I-210 to street grade. This bridge, located between Baldwin and Santa Anita, was removed by Caltrans, which deemed the structure unsafe following the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The Phase 2A project constructed a new, fully functioning light rail bridge, known as the "Iconic Freeway Structure or Gold Line Bridge" (IFS), as the bridge's replacement. The bridge, designed by Minnesota artist Andrew Leicester, was unveiled in December 2012. Leicester's design was chosen from 17 others in a competitive process. The artist worked with L.A. design consultant AECOM as well as the bridge's builder, Skanska USA, on the final design and construction. The woven-basket look of the bridge's support columns emulate the famed woven baskets of the native Chumash people of the San Gabriel Valley while the underbelly of the bridge is supposed to evoke a Western diamondback rattlesnake.

Former service

Arcadia was not one of the original stops on the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad. For most of the 20th century, the station comprised a Queen Anne-style passenger depot on 1st Street and a plain freight depot on Santa Anita Avenue. The passenger depot was decommissioned in the 1950s, and relocated in the 1970s to the Fairplex.

In the late 20th century, Arcadia Station was used as a testing ground for a number of special or experimental passenger rail services. After the Pasadena Subdivision was decommissioned in 1994, Arcadia became the destination for Metrolink's Rose Bowl Train on New Year's Day. In 1996, a Sprinter was run from Arcadia to Monrovia. For an unknown period of time, the station was the home of a private railcar called the Pine Bluff until its purchase in the mid-2000s.

Future Metro Rail service

The station was formally dedicated in a ceremony held on August 22, 2015, though further testing and non-revenue runs over the new trackage was still to come, with the start of regular light rail service to the station scheduled to begin March 5, 2016.

Bus connections

• Metro Local: 79, 487
• Foothill Transit: 187
• Arcadia Transit

External links

• Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority
• Metro Project Page, Gold Line Foothill Extension
• I Will Ride - Blog of Foothill Extension supporters