Historic Broadway was built as part of the Regional Connector project, a tunnel through Downtown Los Angeles. The station is sited in privately owned land and required an agreement with the property's owner, which reserved the right to build a high-rise building above the station entrance on the site in the future. It was constructed via the sequential excavation method, the first time Metro has utilized the process.[4]
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.[5]
E 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.[6]
Connections
As of December 10, 2023[update], the following connections are available:[7]
Historic Broadway station is home to four Metro Art-commissioned artworks.
Entrance to the station, with Bowers' The People United on display
The station's glass entry pavilion is wrapped in Andrea Bowers' The People United (“El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,” Sergio Ortega and Quilapayun; “Brown Beret 13 Point Political Program,” La Causa) which features text artwork of revolutionary slogans such as “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido” (the people united will never be divided) and “By independence we mean the right to self-determination, self-government and freedom.”
According to Metro Art, "the first text is often heard chanted at marches and political demonstrations around the world". It originated in Chile between 1969 and 1973 in support of Salvador Allende’s presidential election and evolved into an anthem composed by Sergio Ortega for the Chilean Popular Unity coalition. The second is taken from a mission statement of the Brown Berets, a Chicano civil rights group founded in East Los Angeles and active during the late 1960s and early 1970s."[9]
On the mezzanine level of the station, you can find Mark Steven Greenfield's glass mosaic named Red Car Requiem, a "sentimental tribute" to the Los Angeles Pacific Electric Red Cars. The artwork represents different destinations along a route, rendered in red, orange, and yellow hues of the Red Cars. It features a series of rosette-like clusters of curvilinear shapes that are connected by sweeping lines. Each rosette contains unique shapes that were once punched into Red Car passenger tickets.[10]
^"A Line (801) Timetable - Dec 2023"(PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. p. 2. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
