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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 | June 26, 2003 | ||||||||||
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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. This station features station art called The First Artists in Southern California: A Short Story, created by artist John Valadez. [1]
Memorial Park station opened on July 26, 2003, as part of the original Gold Line, then known as the "Pasadena Metro Blue Line" project.
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. [2] The station is also located near the Rose Bowl Shuttle, which stops at the Parsons Corporation headquarters 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. [3]
G | Street level | Entrance/Exit | |
P Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Northbound | ← A Line toward APU/Citrus College ( Lake) | ||
Southbound | A Line toward Long Beach ( Del Mar) → | ||
Side platform, doors will open on the right |
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 through Friday. During weekday midday and weekends from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., trains run every 10 minutes. Night and early morning service is approximately every 20 minutes every day. [4]
As of spring 2024, the following connections are available: [5]
This station will connect with the North Hollywood to Pasadena Transit Corridor, a bus rapid transit line in the Metro Busway network in Los Angeles, California which will connect Pasadena and North Hollywood station, and is scheduled to open in 2027. [9]
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places: