Wardlow station

Wardlow is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail.[1] It has an island platform, and is on the A Line right-of-way near Wardlow Road in the Wrigley neighborhood of Long Beach, California. Wardlow is a park and ride station with 25 parking spaces and 10 bike lockers.

Wardlow
 
A southbound train arriving at Wardlow after maintenance
Location3420 North Pacific Place
Long Beach, California 90802
Coordinates33.8206°N 118.1962°W / 33.8206; -118.1962
Owned byMetro
Line(s) A Line
Platforms1 center platform
Tracks2
Construction
Parking82 free spaces
10 paid reserved spaces
Bicycle facilities8 bike rack spaces
14 locker spaces
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Statusin service
History
OpenedJuly 14, 1990 (July 14, 1990)
Services
Preceding station Metro Rail Following station
Willow Street A Line Del Amo
Former services
Preceding station Pacific Electric Following station
Willow
towards Morgan Avenue
Long Beach
discontinued 1961
Los Cerritos
Location

The Willow and Wardlow stations are the two A Line stations closest to the Long Beach Municipal Airport. The A Line maintenance and storage yard is located between the Wardlow and Del Amo stations.

The station entrance is at 3420 N Pacific Pl, Long Beach, CA 90806. The exit from the nearby 405 freeway is Long Beach Blvd (exit 30B - follow signs for Bixby Knolls and merge onto Long Beach Blvd - take 1st left onto E Wardlow and next right on to N. Pacific Pl). There are entrances to both the 405 and 710 freeways from Wardlow.

Station layout

Platform Southbound  A Linetoward Downtown Long Beach (Willow)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Northbound  A Linetoward 7th Street/Metro Center (Del Amo)

Service

Metro Rail service

A Line service hours are approximately from 5:00 AM until 12:45 AM daily.[2]

Bus connections

References

  1. "Blue Line station information" (PDF).
  2. "Blue Line timetable" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-10.


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