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Willow St
Willow St
	Willow Street station platform
General information
Location	2750 American Avenue; Long Beach, California
Coordinates	33°48′26″N 118°11′24″W / 33.807255°N 118.189999°W
Owned by	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Long Beach Transit; Los Angeles Metro Bus;
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	904 spaces
Bicycle facilities	Racks and lockers
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	July 14, 1990; 34 years ago
Rebuilt	June 1, 2019
Passengers
FY 2024	1,721 (avg. wkdy boardings)
Services
Former services
Location
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Willow Street station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located adjacent to Long Beach Boulevard its intersection with Willow Street, after which the station is named, in the Wrigley neighborhood of Long Beach, California.^[5]

South of this station, A Line trains exit the exclusive right-of-way (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway) and start their street running portion in the median of Long Beach Boulevard.

Willow is a park and ride station with 920 parking spaces (including a multi-story parking facility)^[1] and 10 bike lockers. The Willow Street and Wardlow stations, both in Wrigley, are the two A Line stations closest to the Long Beach Municipal Airport.

History

The station is on the site of a junction on the Pacific Electric Railway, where the Balboa Line split from the Long Beach Line. At various times, the junction was referred to as Willow, Willows, Willowville and North Long Beach.

Service

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 to Friday. Trains run every 10 minutes, during midday on weekdays and weekends, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Night and early morning service is approximately every 20 minutes every day.^[6]

Connections

As of December 15, 2024^[update], the following connections are available:^[7]

Long Beach Transit: 51, 101, 102, 103, 104 (to Long Beach Airport), 405 (weekday express service to UCLA)
Los Angeles Metro Bus: 60 (late night only)

Notable places nearby

Wrigley Marketplace shopping center
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Pacific Hospital of Long Beach
Veterans Park
Sunnyside Cemetery & Long Beach Cemetery (these adjacent cemeteries on Willow St. date from before 1900).

References

^ ^a ^b "Metro Parking Lots by Line". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
^ "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.
^ "Metro Blue Line Announces New Closures Starting June 1". KNBC-TV. City News Service. April 1, 2019. Archived from the original on March 4, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
^ "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.
^ "Metro Blue Line Connections" (PDF). Metro. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 25, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
^ "Metro A Line schedule". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
^ "A Line Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 15, 2024. p. 2. Retrieved January 1, 2025.

External links

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[Metro_Parking-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] "Metro Blue Line Announces New Closures Starting June 1". KNBC-TV. City News Service. April 1, 2019. Archived from the original on March 4, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2022.

[template_ridership-4] "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.

[5] "Metro Blue Line Connections" (PDF). Metro. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 25, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2022.

[6] "Metro A Line schedule". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2023.

[7] "A Line Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 15, 2024. p. 2. Retrieved January 1, 2025.

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 == Service ==
-=== Station layout ===
-{{LACMTA Platform Layout A Line Long Beach}}
 === Hours and frequency ===
 {{LA Metro hours and frequency|A}}
 === Connections ===
-{{As of|2023|04|09|df=US}}, the following connections are available:<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 9, 2023 |title=A Line Timetable – Connections section |url=https://cdn.beta.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/09202635/801_TT_04-09-23.pdf |access-date=April 13, 2023 |website=[[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] |page=2}}</ref>
+{{As of|2024|12|15|df=us}}, the following connections are available:<ref>{{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}}</ref>
-* [[Long Beach Transit]]: {{LBT route|51}}, {{LBT route|101}}, {{LBT route|102}}, {{LBT route|103}}, {{LBT route|104}} {{Small|(to {{Rint|air|link=Long Beach Airport}} [[Long Beach Airport]])}}, {{LBT route|405}} {{Small|(weekday express service to [[UCLA]])}}
+* [[Long Beach Transit]]: {{LBT route|51}}, {{LBT route|101}}, {{LBT route|102}}, {{LBT route|103}}, {{LBT route|104}}&nbsp;{{Small|(to {{Rint|air|link=Long Beach Airport}} [[Long Beach Airport]])}}, {{LBT route|405}}&nbsp;{{Small|(weekday express service to [[UCLA]])}}
-* [[Los Angeles Metro Bus]]: {{LA Metro route|60}} {{small|(late night only)}}
+* [[Los Angeles Metro Bus]]: {{LA Metro route|60}}&nbsp;{{small|(late night only)}}
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v t e Los Angeles Metro Rail and Busway stations
A Line	Pomona North La Verne/Fairplex San Dimas Glendora APU/Citrus College Azusa Downtown Irwindale Duarte/City of Hope Monrovia Arcadia Sierra Madre Villa Allen Lake Memorial Park Del Mar Fillmore South Pasadena Highland Park Southwest Museum Heritage Square Lincoln/Cypress Chinatown Union Station Little Tokyo/Arts District Historic Broadway Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill 7th Street/Metro Center Pico Grand/LATTC San Pedro Street Washington Vernon Slauson Florence Firestone 103rd Street/Watts Towers Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Compton Artesia Del Amo Wardlow Willow Street Pacific Coast Highway Anaheim Street 5th Street 1st Street Downtown Long Beach Pacific Avenue
B Line	North Hollywood Universal City/Studio City Hollywood/Highland Hollywood/Vine Hollywood/Western Vermont/Sunset Vermont/Santa Monica Vermont/Beverly Wilshire/Vermont Westlake/MacArthur Park 7th Street/Metro Center Pershing Square Civic Center/Grand Park Union Station
C Line	LAX/Metro Transit Center Aviation/Century Aviation/LAX Hawthorne/Lennox Crenshaw Vermont/Athens Harbor Freeway Avalon Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Long Beach Boulevard Lakewood Boulevard Norwalk
D Line	Westwood/VA Hospital Westwood/UCLA Century City/Constellation Wilshire/Rodeo Wilshire/La Cienega Wilshire/Fairfax Wilshire/La Brea Wilshire/Western Wilshire/Normandie Wilshire/Vermont Westlake/MacArthur Park 7th Street/Metro Center Pershing Square Civic Center/Grand Park Union Station
E Line	Downtown Santa Monica 17th Street/SMC 26th Street/Bergamot Expo/Bundy Expo/Sepulveda Westwood/Rancho Park Palms Culver City La Cienega/Jefferson Expo/La Brea Farmdale Expo/Crenshaw Expo/Western Expo/Vermont Expo Park/USC Jefferson/USC LATTC/Ortho Institute Pico 7th Street/Metro Center Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill Historic Broadway Little Tokyo/Arts District Pico/Aliso Mariachi Plaza Soto Indiana Maravilla East LA Civic Center Atlantic
G Line	Chatsworth Nordhoff Roscoe Sherman Way Canoga De Soto Pierce College Tampa Reseda Balboa Woodley Sepulveda Van Nuys Woodman Valley College Laurel Canyon North Hollywood
J Line	El Monte Cal State LA LA General Medical Center Union Station 37th Street/USC Slauson Manchester Harbor Freeway Rosecrans Harbor Gateway Carson Pacific Coast Highway
K Line	Expo/Crenshaw Martin Luther King Jr. Leimert Park Hyde Park Fairview Heights Downtown Inglewood Westchester/Veterans LAX/Metro Transit Center Aviation/Century Mariposa El Segundo Douglas Redondo Beach
List of Metro Rail stations List of Metro Busway stations Italics denote future stations