Monrovia station

Coordinates: 34°07′57″N 118°00′08″W / 34.1326°N 118.0021°W / 34.1326; -118.0021
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Monrovia L Line 
General information
Location101 W Duarte Road, Monrovia
Coordinates34°07′57″N 118°00′08″W / 34.1326°N 118.0021°W / 34.1326; -118.0021
Owned byMetro
Tracks2
Construction
Parking350 spaces
Bicycle facilities20 bike rack spaces
24 bike lockers[1]
AccessibleYes
Other information
StatusOpen
History
Opened1926
RebuiltMarch 5, 2016[2]
Services
Preceding station   LACMTA   Following station
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  Former services  
ATSF
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Monrovia is an at grade light rail station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system located near the intersection of Duarte Road and Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia, California. This station is served by the Metro Gold Line.[3]

This station was constructed as part of the Gold Line Foothill Extension project Phase 2A. The station opened on March 5, 2016.[4][2]

Station layout

Platform
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Southbound ←  L Linetoward Atlantic (Arcadia)
Northbound →  L Linetoward APU/Citrus College (Duarte/City of Hope) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

Bus connections

Neighborhood and destinations

The station reuses the former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot, built 1926.[7] The 1926 station replaced a wooden depot built on the site in 1886 by the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad. Installed in 1887, a mule-drawn railway, a single passenger car, called the Myrtle Avenue Railroad[8] at that time ran from the Monrovia station up Myrtle Ave to downtown Monrovia. On the way back down to the rail station, the mule was loaded onto a flatcar and downhill gravity took the cars back to the station. By the early 1920s the street car system was removed. Santa Fe Middle School near the station is named after the Santa Fe Railway.[9]

The city of Monrovia is planning to create a transit-oriented district around near its station. The district, known as the "Station Square Transit Village Mixed Use District", will be designed to feature mixed retail, residential and office uses, with pedestrian amenities and connections.[10] Plans are to restore/renovate the historic 1926 Monrovia Santa Fe train station depot at the location, though the actual use of the station is not yet determined.[11][12][13]

Vehicle maintenance facility

The Gold Line Authority and Metro have built a new Maintenance and Operations (M&O) Facility in Monrovia, east of Monrovia station. The 27-acre (11 ha) facility will service, clean and store light-rail vehicles for Metro's fleet, with a total storage capacity of 104 vehicles. The facility is located just north of the ROW between California Avenue and Shamrock Avenue. It cost $53 million to build.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Gold Line".  Metro (LACMTA). Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  2. ^ a b Nelson, Laura J. (March 5, 2016). "Metro Gold Line extension tests San Gabriel Valley's support for transit". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  3. ^ foothillgoldline.org, Pasadena to Azusa
  4. ^ http://www.metro.net/projects/foothill-extension/
  5. ^ http://media.metro.net/riding_metro/bus_overview/images/804_2016-0221.pdf
  6. ^ http://media.metro.net/riding_metro/bus_overview/images/804_2016-0221.pdf
  7. ^ monrovianow.com, Santa Fe train at the old Monrovia train station.
  8. ^ M P Heritage, Myrtle Avenue Railroad, Mules Did What Now?, Tuesday, March 25, 2014,
  9. ^ Monrovia Patch,A Future Gold Line Station: Once an Elegant Stop on the Santa Fe Line, by Matt Hormann , November 29, 2010
  10. ^ City of Monrovia web page, Gold line
  11. ^ monrovianow.com, Planned apartments at Monrovia train station, March 2014
  12. ^ thesource.metro.net, Planning underway for Monrovia’s Station Square at new Gold Line stop, November 14, 2013 by Steve Hymo
  13. ^ "Art of the Journey, The Foothill Gold Line" (PDF). Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  14. ^ SGV Tribune, Monrovia's Gold Line maintenance yard work in full swing, By Brenda Gazzar, Staff Writer, 01/03/13

External links

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