Owned by Metro Status in service Rebuilt 5 March 2016 Tracks 2 | Disabled access Yes Opened 1926 Bicycle facilities 24 | |
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Location 101 W Duarte Road, Monrovia Parking 350 spaces:
296 free
54 paid reserved
3 charging stations Address 121 W Duarte Rd, Monrovia, CA 91016, USA Similar Arcadia station, Azusa Downtown station, Irwindale station, APU/Citrus College station, Duarte/City of Hope station | ||
Monrovia station opening ceremony
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.
Contents
- Monrovia station opening ceremony
- Metro gold line from azusa to los angeles at monrovia station
- Bus connections
- Neighborhood and destinations
- Vehicle maintenance facility
- References
This station was constructed as part of the Gold Line Foothill Extension project Phase 2A. The station opened on March 5, 2016.
Metro gold line from azusa to los angeles at monrovia station
Bus connections
Neighborhood and destinations
The station reuses the former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot, built 1926. 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 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.
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. 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.
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.