Duarte/City of Hope station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located at the intersection of Duarte Road and Highland Avenue in Duarte, California, after which the station is named, along with the City of Hope National Medical Center located across the street from the station.
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 Duarte/City of Hope station platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | 1789 Business Center Drive Duarte, California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°07′57″N 117°58′05″W / 34.1326°N 117.9680°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Foothill Transit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | 125 spaces[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Racks and lockers[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1886 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2016[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Duarte | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FY 2024 | 596 (avg. wkdy boardings)[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This station opened on March 5, 2016, as part of Phase 2A of the Gold Line Foothill Extension Project.[3][5]
History
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The 1886 Duarte train station was the terminal station for the original trains for the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad. The Metro A Line uses the old right of way of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad who built the first train tracks and 1886 station in Duarte. The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was founded in 1883, by James F. Crank with the goal of bringing a rail line to San Gabriel Valley from downtown Los Angeles. Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was sold on May 20, 1887, into the California Central Railway. The California Central Railway built a Duarte train depot in 1897. In 1889 the rail line and station was consolidated into Southern California Railway Company. On January 17, 1906, Southern California Railway was sold to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and called the Pasadena Subdivision. Amtrak-Santa Fe ran the Southwest Chief and Desert Wind over this line in Duarte, but relocated the Desert Wind to the Fullerton Line in 1986. The Santa Fe line served the San Gabriel Valley until 1994, when the 1994 Northridge earthquake weakened the bridge in Arcadia and the track was closed until the light rail line was built.[6][7][8]
Service
editHours and frequency
editA Line service hours are from approximately 4:30 a.m. and 11:45 p.m daily. Trains operate every 8 minutes during peak hours, Monday to Friday. Trains run every 10 minutes, during midday on weekdays and weekends, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Night and early morning service is approximately every 20 minutes every day.[9]
Connections
editAs of spring 2024, the following connections are available:[10]
- Foothill Transit: 272, 861 (Duarte Green)
References
edit- ^ "Metro Parking Lots by Line". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
- ^ "Secure Bike Parking on Metro" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 6, 2021. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
- ^ a b Nelson, Laura J. (March 5, 2016). "Metro Gold Line extension tests San Gabriel Valley's support for transit". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ^ "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.
- ^ Foothill Extension Archived April 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
Metro (LACMTA)
- ^ "KCET, Exploring the Metro Gold Line's Foothill Extension Phase 2A, by Eric Brightwell, February 27, 2013". Archived from the original on September 25, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
- ^ "RailGiants Train Museum located inside the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds". Archived from the original on May 9, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
- ^ "Duarte Plans for More Residential Around its Gold Line Station". Urbanize LA. March 21, 2019. Archived from the original on March 23, 2023. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
- ^ "Metro A Line schedule". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
- ^ "A Line Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. June 16, 2023. p. 2. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
