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Artesia station

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Owned by
  
Metro

Platforms
  
1 center platform

Opened
  
14 July 1990

Line(s)
  
Blue Line

Bicycle facilities
  
8 bike rack spaces

Tracks
  
2

Artesia station

Location
  
1920½ Acacia Avenue Compton, CA 90020

Parking
  
380 "Park and Ride" spaces

Address
  
Compton, CA 90220, United States

Similar
  
Del Amo station, Downtown Long Beach sta, Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station, Wardlow station, Willow Street station

Artesia is an at grade light rail station on the Los Angeles County Metro Blue Line. It has an island platform, and is on the Blue Line right-of-way near Artesia Boulevard in the city of Compton, California. Artesia is a park and ride station with 380 parking spaces. The station is near the southern border of Compton, California near the unincorporated community of Rancho Dominguez. It is on Artesia Boulevard near the intersection of Alemeda Street. It is also close to the Artesia Freeway.

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The Artesia station is the closest Blue Line station to California State University, Dominguez Hills.

A June 7, 2012 editorial in the Los Angeles Times described the station as "extremely unfriendly to pedestrians" and "a Third World train station."

Metro blue line artesia station


Metro Rail service

Blue Line service hours are approximately from 5:00 AM until 12:45 AM daily.

Bus connections

  • Metro Local: 60, 130, 205, 260
  • Metro Rapid: 762
  • Compton Renaissance Transit: 5
  • Long Beach Transit: 51, 52, 61
  • Torrance Transit: 6
  • Neighborhood and destinations

  • Radisson Crystal Park Hotel and Casino
  • El Camino College Compton Center
  • Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy
  • Dominguez Rancho Adobe California State Historic Landmark # 152 [1]
  • References

    Artesia station Wikipedia