Duarte/City of Hope
A Line 
Duarte/City of Hope station platform
General information
Location1789 Business Center Drive
Duarte, California
Coordinates34°07′57″N 117°58′05″W / 34.1326°N 117.9680°W / 34.1326; -117.9680
Owned byLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsFoothill Transit
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Parking125 spaces[1]
Bicycle facilitiesRacks and lockers[2]
AccessibleYes
History
Opened1886
Rebuilt2016[3]
Previous namesDuarte
Services
Preceding station Metro Rail Following station
Monrovia
toward Long Beach
 A Line Irwindale
toward APU/Citrus College
Former services (at AT&SF station)
Preceding station Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Following station
Arcadia
toward Los Angeles
 Main Line
Via Pasadena, Pomona
 Azusa
toward Chicago
Location
Map

Duarte/City of Hope 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 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]

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 A 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 light rail line was built.[5][6][7]

Service

Station layout

Westbound ←  A Line toward Long Beach (Monrovia)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Eastbound →  A Line toward APU/Citrus College (Irwindale) →

Hours and frequency

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.[8]

Connections

As of December 10, 2023, the following connections are available:[9]

References

  1. ^ "Metro Parking Lots by Line". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  2. ^ "Secure Bike Parking on Metro" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 6, 2021. 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. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  4. ^ Foothill Extension Archived April 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.  Metro (LACMTA)
  5. ^ "KCET, Exploring the Metro Gold Line's Foothill Extension Phase 2A, by Eric Brightwell, February 27, 2013". Archived from the original on September 25, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
  6. ^ "RailGiants Train Museum located inside the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds". Archived from the original on May 9, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
  7. ^ "Duarte Plans for More Residential Around its Gold Line Station". Urbanize LA. March 21, 2019. Archived from the original on March 23, 2023. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  8. ^ "Metro A Line schedule". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
  9. ^ "A Line Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. June 16, 2023. p. 2. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
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