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Location | 2750 American Avenue Long Beach, California | ||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°48′26″N118°11′24″W / 33.807255°N 118.189999°W | ||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | ||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||||||
Parking | 904 spaces [1] | ||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Racks and lockers [2] | ||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
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Opened | July 14, 1990 | ||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | June 1, 2019 [3] | ||||||||||||||||
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FY 2024 | 1,721 (avg. wkdy boardings) [4] | ||||||||||||||||
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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.
The station is on the site of a junction on the Pacific Electric Railway, where the Balboa Line split from the Long Beach Line. At various times, the junction was referred to as Willow, Willows, Willowville and North Long Beach.
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. [6]
As of April 9,2023 [update] , the following connections are available: [7]
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