Owned by City of Baldwin Park Parking 76 spaces Owner Baldwin Park | Tracks 1 Phone +1 626-813-5255 Platforms in use 1 | |
Address 3825 Downing Ave, Baldwin Park, CA 91706, USA Similar El Monte station, Fontana station, Cal State LA station, Claremont, Santa Fe Depot | ||
Railfanning metrolink s baldwin park station
Baldwin Park is a Metrolink train station in Baldwin Park, California, United States, between Pacific Avenue and Ramona Boulevard next to Baldwin Park City Hall.
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- Railfanning metrolink s baldwin park station
- Metrolink 889 departing baldwin park station
- Danza Indigenas controversy
- References
The station is owned by the City of Baldwin Park. Foothill Transit and LACMTA bus routes serve the station, and Baldwin Park and West Covina provide municipal shuttles to the station.
Metrolink 889 departing baldwin park station
Danza Indigenas controversy
In mid-2005, "Save Our State", an anti-illegal immigration group based in Ventura County, launched a series of protests against Danza Indigenas, outdoor artwork at the station by Chicana artist Judy Baca. The monument bears several engraved statements whose origins are not attributed. At issue was one particular inscription – It was better before they came – that Save Our State claimed was directed against Anglo whites. In fact, according to Baca, that sentence was uttered by an Anglo white Baldwin Park politician in the 1950s; he was lamenting the influx of persons of Mexican ancestry into the San Gabriel Valley following World War II. The protests drew counter-protesters, and required city expenditure on crowd control and riot police, an admitted goal of Save Our State.