Arcadia station
{{Short description|Los Angeles Metro Rail station}}
{{For|the station in Missouri|Arcadia Valley station}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox station
| style = Los Angeles Metro Rail
| name = Arcadia
| symbol_location = losangeles
| symbol = A
| image = Arcadia Station 1.jpg
| image_caption = Arcadia station platform
| address = 73 East Santa Clara Street
| borough = Arcadia, California
| coordinates = {{coord|34.1425|-118.0288|display=inline,title}}
| owned = Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
| platform = 1 island platform
| tracks = 2
| connections = {{Unbulleted list
}}
| structure = At-grade
| bicycle = Racks and lockers{{Cite web |title=Secure Bike Parking on Metro |url=https://bikehub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20-2070_Secure_Bike_Parking_Master_Map_jp-ENG.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906210731/https://bikehub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20-2070_Secure_Bike_Parking_Master_Map_jp-ENG.pdf |archive-date=September 6, 2021 |access-date=November 5, 2021 |publisher=Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |language=en-US}}
| accessible = yes
| opened = 1887
| closed = 1951
| pass_year = {{LAMetro Ridership|date}}
| passengers = {{LAMetro Ridership|Arcadia}}
| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Los Angeles Metro Rail|line=A|type=West-East|left=Sierra Madre Villa|right=Monrovia}}
| other_services_header = Former services
| other_services_collapsible = yes
| other_services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Los Angeles Metro Rail|line=L|left=Sierra Madre Villa|right=Monrovia}}
| other_services2_header = Former services (at AT&SF station)
| other_services2_collapsible = yes
| other_services2 = {{Adjacent stations
|system1=Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
|line1=main|left1=Santa Anita|right1=Monrovia|note-mid1=Via Pasadena, Pomona
|system2=Pacific Electric
|line2=Monrovia–Glendora|left2=Santa Anita Park|right2=Monrovia
}}
| mapframe = yes
| mapframe-zoom = 14
}}
Arcadia 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 1st Avenue and Santa Clara Street in Arcadia, California, after which the station is named.
This station opened on March 5, 2016, as part of Phase 2A of the Gold Line Foothill Extension Project.{{Cite news |last=Nelson |first=Laura J. |date=March 5, 2016 |title=Metro Gold Line extension tests San Gabriel Valley's support for transit |work=Los Angeles Times |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-gold-line-opening-20160305-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218121106/http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-gold-line-opening-20160305-story.html |archive-date=February 18, 2018}}[http://www.metro.net/projects/foothill-extension/ Foothill Extension] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428022124/http://www.metro.net/projects/foothill-extension |date=April 28, 2010 }}. {{LACMTA link logo|showtext=yes}} An overpass bridge was constructed over Santa Anita Avenue near the station.
History
= Former bridge =
In Arcadia, a steel railroad bridge transitioned the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between the I-210 and street grade. This bridge, between Baldwin and Santa Anita, was deemed unsafe following the 1994 Northridge earthquake and removed by Caltrans. The Phase 2A project constructed the "Iconic Freeway Structure or Gold Line Bridge" (IFS), as the replacement bridge. Designed by Minnesota artist Andrew Leicester, the bridge was unveiled in December 2012. Leicester's design was chosen from 17 others in a competitive process. The artist worked with L.A. design consultant AECOM as well as the bridge's builder, Skanska USA, on the final design and construction. The woven-basket look of the bridge's support columns emulate the woven baskets of the native Chumash people of the San Gabriel Valley while the underside of the bridge evokes a Western diamondback rattlesnake.David Ng (December 12, 2012), [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-artist-unveils-metro-gold-line-bridge-design-in-arcadia-20121211,0,3564350.story Artist to unveil Metro Gold Line bridge design in Arcadia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105065636/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-artist-unveils-metro-gold-line-bridge-design-in-arcadia-20121211,0,3564350.story |date=November 5, 2013 }} Los Angeles Times.{{Cite web |title=Art of the Journey, The Foothill Gold Line |url=http://foothillgoldline.org/images/uploads/Art_of_the_Journey_-_the_Foothill_Gold_Line.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824230150/http://foothillgoldline.org/images/uploads/Art_of_the_Journey_-_the_Foothill_Gold_Line.pdf |archive-date=August 24, 2016 |access-date=24 August 2014 |publisher=Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority}}
= Former service =
File:SantaFeStationArcadiaCA1887 1900photo.jpg
Arcadia train station was added two years after the original the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad opened in 1885. The 1887 station was a Queen Anne-style passenger depot on First Avenue. The passenger station was decommissioned in 1951 and relocated in 1970 to the Fairplex, RailGiants Train Museum that is located inside the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona.[http://www.railgiants.org/santa-fe-station.htm Santa Fe Station, Arcadia CA, circa 1887] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509093213/http://www.railgiants.org/santa-fe-station.htm |date=May 9, 2017 }}. Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Southern California Chapter. The rail line was operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (Santa Fe), and served Amtrak's Southwest Chief and Desert Wind, although the latter never stopped at Arcadia. The Santa Fe line served the San Gabriel Valley until 1994, when the 1994 Northridge earthquake weakened the bridge in Arcadia. After the line was decommissioned in 1994, Arcadia became the destination for Metrolink's Rose Bowl Game train on New Year's Day.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}} In 1996, a Sprinter was run from Arcadia to Monrovia.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}} For an unknown period of time, the station was the home of a private railcar called the Pine Bluff until its purchase in the mid-2000s.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}
Arcadia train station should not be confused with the Lucky Baldwin's Santa Anita Depot that was a freight depot at Santa Anita Avenue and Colorado Boulevard and moved to the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in 1970.
The station was formally dedicated in a ceremony held on August 22, 2015. Regular light rail service to the station began on March 5, 2016.{{Cite web |date=August 24, 2015 |title=Arcadia Station dedicated on Foothills Gold Line |url=http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2015/08/arcadia-station-dedicated-on-foothills-gold-line |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825235455/http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2015/08/arcadia-station-dedicated-on-foothills-gold-line |archive-date=August 25, 2015 |access-date=August 24, 2015 |publisher=Trains Magazine}}
Service
= Hours and frequency =
{{LA Metro hours and frequency|A}}
= Connections =
{{As of|2024|12|15|df=us}}, the following connections are available:{{Cite web |date=December 15, 2024 |title=A Line Timetable – Connections section |url=https://cdn.beta.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/06090036/801_TT_12-15-24.pdf |access-date=January 1, 2025 |publisher=Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |page=2}}
- Arcadia Transit: Blue, Green, Red{{Cite web |date=August 13, 2018 |title=Arcadia Transit Fixed Route Services |url=https://www.arcadiaca.gov/shape/development_services_department/transportation_services/fixed_route_services.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725155434/https://www.arcadiaca.gov/shape/development_services_department/transportation_services/fixed_route_services.php |archive-date=July 25, 2022 |access-date=May 14, 2022 |website=City of Arcadia, California |language=en}}
- Foothill Transit: {{Foothill Transit route|187}}, {{Foothill Transit route|270}}
- Los Angeles Metro Bus: {{LA Metro route|179}}, {{LA Metro route|287}}
References
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Category:A Line (Los Angeles Metro) stations
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 2016
Category:2016 establishments in California
Category:Former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway stations
Category:Pacific Electric stations
Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1951