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 Artesia station platform | |||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 19201⁄2 Acacia Avenue Compton, California | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°52′36″N 118°13′22″W / 33.8766°N 118.2227°W | ||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | ||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||||||
| Parking | 380 spaces[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||
| Opened | July 14, 1990 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | June 1, 2019[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Dominguez (Pacific Electric) | ||||||||||||||||
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| FY 2024 | 1,554 (avg. wkdy boardings)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
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Artesia station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located alongside the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway), at its intersection with Artesia Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the city of Compton, California.[4]
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 Alameda Street. It is also close to the Artesia Freeway (SR 91).
A June 7, 2012, editorial in the Los Angeles Times described the station as,"extremely unfriendly to pedestrians" and,"a Third World train station."[5]
- ^ "Metro Parking Lots by Line". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
- ^ "Metro Blue Line Announces New Closures Starting June 1". KNBC-TV. City News Service. April 1, 2019. Archived from the original on March 4, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
- ^ "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.
- ^ "Metro Blue Line Connections" (PDF). Metro. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 25, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
- ^ Tobar, Hector (June 7, 2012). "Transit that serves all requires some to sacrifice". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 9, 2019. Retrieved December 9, 2019.