Owned by Metro Status in service Rebuilt 5 March 2016 Platforms in use 1 | Disabled access Yes Opened c. 1911 Bicycle facilities 24 Tracks 2 | |
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Location 200 N First Avenue, Arcadia Parking 300 spaces (270 parking garage, 30 parking lot)
3 charging stations in garage Address 200 N 1st Ave, Arcadia, CA 91105, USA Similar Azusa Downtown station, Monrovia station, Irwindale station, APU/Citrus College station, Sierra Madre Villa station | ||
Gold line arcadia station test aug 7 2015
Arcadia is an 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. This station is served by the Metro Gold Line.
Contents
- Gold line arcadia station test aug 7 2015
- Ksp 1 2 career s2 e30 arcadia station solar orbit
- Former bridge
- Former service
- Service
- Bus connections
- References
This station was built as part of the Gold Line Foothill Extension project Phase 2A. It opened on March 5, 2016. An overpass bridge was constructed over Santa Anita Ave near the station.
Ksp 1 2 career s2 e30 arcadia station solar orbit
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.
Service
The station was formally dedicated in a ceremony held on August 22, 2015. Regular light rail service to the station began on March 5, 2016.