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Location | 3545 Pasadena Avenue Los Angeles, California | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°05′14″N118°12′45″W / 34.0871°N 118.2126°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||
Parking | 129 spaces [1] | ||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Racks | ||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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Opened | July 26, 2003 | ||||||||||||
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Heritage Square 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 French Avenue and Pasadena Avenue in the western Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. [2]
The station is named after the nearby Heritage Square Museum and is located in the lower Arroyo Seco valley between the San Rafael Hills and Mount Washington. It is adjacent to the Arroyo Seco Parkway (also known as California State Route 110 and the Pasadena Freeway).
Heritage Square station opened on July 26, 2003, as part of the original Gold Line, then known as the "Pasadena Metro Blue Line" project.
Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Northbound | ← A Line toward APU/Citrus College (Southwest Museum) |
Southbound | A Line toward Long Beach (Lincoln/Cypress) → |
Side platform, doors will open on the right |
A Line trains run every day between approximately 4:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. Trains operate every 10 minutes during peak hours Monday through Friday, and every twelve minutes during the daytime on weekdays and all day on the weekends. Evening service (after 7 p.m.) is every 20 minutes. [3]
During the construction and planning stages, Heritage Square station was originally planned to be named French station, after nearby French Avenue. It was one of three stations to be renamed shortly before the line's opening. It was then renamed to Heritage Square/Arroyo (also signed as Heritage Square/The Arroyo) for the nearby Heritage Square Museum complex and the Arroyo Seco creek and canyon. Metro now refers to the station by the shorter Heritage Square.
The A Line is a 48.5-mile (78.1 km) light rail line in Los Angeles County, California. The A Line runs northeast–southwest between Azusa and Long Beach, via Downtown Los Angeles.
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