Duarte/City of Hope station

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Duarte/City of Hope
L Line 
LACMTA Gold Line Duarte Station, another view.jpg
Location1789 Business Center Drive
Duarte, California
Coordinates34°07′57″N 117°58′05″W / 34.1326°N 117.9680°W / 34.1326; -117.9680Coordinates: 34°07′57″N 117°58′05″W / 34.1326°N 117.9680°W / 34.1326; -117.9680
Owned byMetro
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsFoothill Transit
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Parking125 spaces[2]
Bicycle facilitiesRacks and lockers[1]
Disabled accessYes
History
Opened1886; 136 years ago (1886)
RebuiltMarch 5, 2016; 5 years ago (2016-03-05)[3]
Previous namesDuarte
Services
Preceding station LAMetroLogo.svg Metro Rail Following station
Monrovia
toward Atlantic
 L Line Irwindale
toward APU/Citrus College
Future services
Preceding station LAMetroLogo.svg Metro Rail Following station
Monrovia
toward Downtown Long Beach
 A Line Irwindale
toward APU/Citrus College
Location

Duarte/City of Hope is an at-grade light rail station on the L Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located at the intersection of Duarte Road and Highland Avenue in Duarte, California, after which the station is named, along with the City of Hope National Medical Center located across the street from the station.

This station opened on March 5, 2016, as part of Phase 2A of the Gold Line Foothill Extension project.[3][4] This station and all the other original Gold Line and Foothill Extension stations will be part of the A Line upon completion of the Regional Connector project in 2022.

History[]

The Duarte train depot built by the California Central Railway in 1897 and sold to Santa Fe in 1907.

The 1886 Duarte train station was the terminal station for the original trains for the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad. The Metro L Line uses the old right of way of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad who built the first train tracks and 1886 station in Duarte. The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was founded in 1883, by James F. Crank with the goal of bringing a rail line to San Gabriel Valley from downtown Los Angeles. Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad was sold on May 20, 1887 into the California Central Railway. The California Central Railway built a Duarte train depot in 1897. In 1889 the rail line and station was consolidated into Southern California Railway Company. On January 17, 1906 Southern California Railway was sold to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and called the Pasadena Subdivision. Amtrak-Santa Fe ran the Southwest Chief and Desert Wind over this line in Duarte, but relocated the Desert Wind to the Fullerton Line in 1986. The Santa Fe line served the San Gabriel Valley until 1994, when the 1994 Northridge earthquake weakened the bridge in Arcadia and the track was closed until the L Line (formerly the Gold line) was built.[5][6][7]

Service[]

Station layout[]

Northbound ←  L Line toward APU/Citrus College (Irwindale)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Southbound →  L Line toward Atlantic (Monrovia) →

Service hours[]

L Line service hours are approximately from 4:00 AM until 12:15 AM daily.[8]

Connections[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Secure Bike Parking on Metro" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  2. ^ "Metro Parking Lots by Line". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  3. ^ a b Nelson, Laura J. (March 5, 2016). "Metro Gold Line extension tests San Gabriel Valley's support for transit". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  4. ^ Foothill Extension.  Metro (LACMTA)
  5. ^ KCET, Exploring the Metro Gold Line's Foothill Extension Phase 2A, by Eric Brightwell, February 27, 2013
  6. ^ RailGiants Train Museum located inside the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds
  7. ^ "Duarte Plans for More Residential Around its Gold Line Station". Urbanize LA. 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  8. ^ "L Line Schedule". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. June 27, 2021. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
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