Baldwin Park
Baldwin Park station platform
General information
Location3825 Downing Avenue
Baldwin Park, California
United States
Coordinates34°05′11″N 117°57′27″W / 34.0865°N 117.9574°W / 34.0865; -117.9574
Owned byCity of Baldwin Park
Line(s)SCRRA San Gabriel Subdivision[1]
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Connections
Construction
Parking360 paid spaces, 14 accessible spaces[2]
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedMay 24, 1993 (1993-05-24)[3]
Services
Preceding station Metrolink Following station
El Monte
toward L.A. Union Station
 San Bernardino Line Covina
toward San Bernardino–Downtown
     San Bernardino Line Express does not stop here
Location
Map

Baldwin Park station is a Metrolink train station in Baldwin Park, California, United States, between Pacific Avenue and Ramona Boulevard next to Baldwin Park City Hall.[4] The station is owned by the City of Baldwin Park.

Baldwin Park station is served by 34 Metrolink San Bernardino Line trains (17 in each direction) each weekday, running primarily at peak hours in the peak direction of travel. Weekend service consists of 16 trains (8 in each direction) on both Saturday and Sunday, evenly spaced throughout the day.[5]

Station artwork

Danza Indigenas is outdoor artwork at the station by Chicana artist Judy Baca which includes a concrete footpath that represents ceremonial steps performed by early California inhabitants, the Gabrielino and Chumash Indians.[6] The monument bears several engraved statements whose origins are not attributed. In mid-2005, "Save Our State", an anti-illegal immigration group based in Ventura County, launched a series of protests over an inscription – It was better before they came – that Save Our State claimed was directed against whites. According to Baca, that sentence was uttered by a white Baldwin Park politician in the 1950s; he was lamenting the influx of persons of Mexican ancestry into the San Gabriel Valley following World War II. The protests drew counter-protesters, and required city expenditure on crowd control and riot police, an admitted goal of Save Our State.[4][7]

References

  1. ^ SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 19.
  2. ^ "Baldwin Park Station". Metrolink.
  3. ^ Simburger, Edward (1998). Railroad-Freeway. Agoura, California: Yerba Seca Publications. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-9649948-1-2.
  4. ^ a b Thermos, Wendy (June 26, 2005). "Immigration Protest in Baldwin Park Is Peaceful". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  5. ^ Dubin, Zan (August 10, 1993). "Muralist Honors California Indians : Art: Judy Baca's $60,000 project to spruce up the Baldwin Park Metrolink rail station puts 'memory into a piece of land.'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  6. ^ Miller, Sara B. (June 29, 2005). "A monument stirs immigration debate". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 12, 2016.

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