Memorial Park  | |||||||||||||
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 Memorial Park station platforms in 2023, with artwork at upper right | |||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||
| Location | 125 East Holly Street Pasadena, California | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°08′51″N 118°08′52″W / 34.1476°N 118.1479°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Connections | See Connections section | ||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Below-grade | ||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Racks and lockers | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | July 26, 2003 | ||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||
| FY 2024 | 1,304 (avg. wkdy boardings)[1] | ||||||||||||
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Memorial Park station is an underground light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located at Holly Street and at the end of Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, California. The station is named after the nearby Memorial Park and is situated on the northern edge of Old Town Pasadena.
Memorial Park station was built in a trench beneath the Holly Street Village Apartments, which was constructed with the trench in 1994 in anticipation of a light rail station at this site. Memorial Park station opened on July 26, 2003, as part of the original Gold Line, then known as the "Pasadena Metro Blue Line" project.
The station features a work of art, The First Artists in Southern California: A Short Story, created by artist John Valadez. The over 100-foot-long (30 m) artwork, fabricated from aluminum, honors cave paintings made by the indigenous peoples of the Pasadena area.[2]
It is one of the A Line stations near the Rose Parade route on Colorado Boulevard and is heavily used by people coming to see the parade.[3] The station is also located near the Rose Bowl Shuttle, which stops at the Parsons Corporation building and offers service to most events at the stadium. During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from the Rose Bowl.[4]
- ^ "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.
- ^ "The First Artists in Southern California: A Short Story". Metro Art. Archived from the original on October 24, 2021.
- ^ "Riding Metro on New Year's Day". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on August 21, 2021. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
- ^ http://la24-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/pdf/LA2024-canditature-part2_english.pdf Archived October 12, 2016, at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]