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Location | 125 East Holly Street Pasadena, California | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°08′51″N118°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 | ||||||||||||
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Opened | July 26, 2003 | ||||||||||||
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FY 2024 | 1,304 (avg. wkdy boardings) [1] | ||||||||||||
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Memorial Park station is a below-grade 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]
A 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. [5]
As of December 15,2024 [update] , the following connections are available: [6]
This station will connect with the North Hollywood to Pasadena Transit Corridor, a new bus rapid transit line in the Metro Busway network. As of 2024 [update] , BRT service is scheduled to begin in late 2027. [9] [10]
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
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