Willow Street station
Willow Street | |||||||||||
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 Metro Blue Line train departing Willow Station. | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 2750 American Avenue Long Beach, CA 90806 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Metro | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | A Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 center platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | 870 free spaces 20 paid reserved spaces | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 16 bike rack spaces 14 locker spaces | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Status | in service | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | July 14, 1990 | ||||||||||
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Willow Street is an at grade light rail station on the Los Angeles County Metro Blue Line.[1] It has an island platform, and is adjacent to Long Beach Boulevard near the intersection of Willow Street in the city of Long Beach, California. At this point, going Northbound, the Blue Line route leaves Long Beach Boulevard and enters its own right-of-way (part of Pacific Electric Railway's Red Car right-of-way) allowing the trains to reach higher speeds between stops. Willow is a park and ride station with 920 parking spaces (including a multi-story parking facility) and 10 bike lockers.
The Willow Street and Wardlow stations, both in Wrigley, are the two Blue Line stations closest to the Long Beach Municipal Airport.
History
The station is on the site of a junction on the Pacific Electric Railway, where the Balboa line split from the Long Beach line. At various times, the junction was referred to as Willow, Willows, Willowville and North Long Beach.
Station layout
| Southbound | ■ Blue Line | toward Downtown Long Beach (Pacific Coast Highway) |
| Northbound | ■ Blue Line | toward 7th Street/Metro Center (Wardlow) |
Metro Rail service
Blue Line service hours are approximately from 5:00 AM until 12:45 AM daily.[2]
Bus connections
- Metro Local: 60 (Late Night and Early Morning only)
- Long Beach Transit: 1, 51, 52, 101, 102, 103
Nearby sights and attractions
- Wrigley Marketplace shopping center
- Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
- Pacific Hospital of Long Beach
- Veterans Memorial Park
- Sunnyside Cemetery & Long Beach Cemetery (these adjacent cemeteries on Willow St. date from before 1900).
References
- ^ "Blue Line station information" (PDF).
- ^ "Blue Line timetable" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-10.
External links
Media related to Willow (Los Angeles Metro station) at Wikimedia Commons
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