Willow Street station

Willow St
A Line 
Willow Street station platform
General information
Location2750 American Avenue
Long Beach, California
Coordinates33°48′26″N 118°11′24″W / 33.807255°N 118.189999°W / 33.807255; -118.189999
Owned byLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Parking904 spaces[1]
Bicycle facilitiesRacks and lockers[2]
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedJuly 14, 1990; 34 years ago (1990-07-14)
RebuiltJune 1, 2019[3]
Passengers
FY 20241,721 (avg. wkdy boardings)[4]
Services
Preceding station Metro Rail Following station
Wardlow
toward Azusa
A Line Pacific Coast Highway
Former services
Preceding station Pacific Electric Following station
Morgan Avenue
Terminus
Long Beach Vista del Mar
Burnett
towards Balboa
Balboa
Location
Map

Willow Street station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located adjacent to Long Beach Boulevard its intersection with Willow Street, after which the station is named, in the Wrigley neighborhood of Long Beach, California.[5]

South of this station, A Line trains exit the exclusive right-of-way (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway) and start their street running portion in the median of Long Beach Boulevard.

Willow is a park and ride station with 920 parking spaces (including a multi-story parking facility)[1] and 10 bike lockers. The Willow Street and Wardlow stations, both in Wrigley, are the two A Line stations closest to the Long Beach Municipal Airport.

  1. ^ a b "Metro Parking Lots by Line". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.
  5. ^ "Metro Blue Line Connections" (PDF). Metro. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 25, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2022.