Memorial Park station explained

Style:	Los Angeles Metro Rail
Memorial Park
Symbol Location:	losangeles
Symbol:	A
Address:	125 East Holly Street
Borough:	Pasadena, California
Coordinates:	34.1476°N -118.1479°W
Owned:	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platform:	2 side platforms
Tracks:	2
Connections:	See Connections section
Structure:	Below-grade
Bicycle:	Racks and lockers
Accessible:	Yes
Other Services Header:	Former services
Other Services Collapsible:	yes
Mapframe:	yes
Mapframe-Zoom:	14

Memorial Park station is an underground light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located at Holly Street and at the end of Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, California. The station is named after the nearby Memorial Park and is situated on the northern edge of Old Town Pasadena.

Memorial Park station was built in a trench beneath the Holly Street Village Apartments, which was constructed with the trench in 1994 in anticipation of a light rail station at this site. Memorial Park station opened on July 26, 2003, as part of the original Gold Line, then known as the "Pasadena Metro Blue Line" project.

The station features a work of art, The First Artists in Southern California: A Short Story, created by artist John Valadez. The over 100-longNaN-long artwork, fabricated from aluminum, honors cave paintings made by the indigenous peoples of the Pasadena area.^[1]

It is one of the A Line stations near the Rose Parade route on Colorado Boulevard and is heavily used by people coming to see the parade.^[2] The station is also located near the Rose Bowl Shuttle, which stops at the Parsons Corporation headquarters building and offers service to most events at the stadium. During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from the Rose Bowl.^[3]

Service

Station layout

G	Street level	Entrance/Exit
P Platform level
Northbound	← toward
Southbound	toward →

Connections

As of spring 2024, the following connections are available:^[4]

• Amtrak Thruway: 19 (at 168 South Las Robles Avenue).^[5]
• ArtCenter College of Design Shuttle ^[6]
• Foothill Transit:, ^[7]
• LADOT Commuter Express:
• Los Angeles Metro Bus:,,,, (NoHo-Pasadena Express),
• Pasadena Transit: 20, 40, 51, 52

Future

This station will connect with the North Hollywood to Pasadena Transit Corridor, a new bus rapid transit line in the Metro Busway network., BRT service is scheduled to begin in late 2027.^{[8] [9]}

Notable places nearby

The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:

• Armory Center for the Arts
• Fuller Theological Seminary
• Gamble House
• Memorial Park & Levitt Pavilion
• Norton Simon Museum
• Old Pasadena
• USC Pacific Asia Museum
• Pasadena City Hall
• Pasadena Civic Center District
• Pasadena Museum of History
• The Paseo

References

Notes and References

1. Web site: The First Artists in Southern California: A Short Story . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211024155859/https://art.metro.net/artworks/the-first-artists-in-southern-california-a-short-story/ . 2021-10-24 . Metro Art . en-US.
2. Web site: Riding Metro on New Year's Day . https://web.archive.org/web/20210821175630/https://www.metro.net/riding/new-years/ . August 21, 2021 . November 29, 2021 . Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
3. http://la24-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/pdf/LA2024-canditature-part2_english.pdf
4. Web site: December 10, 2023 . A Line Timetable – Connections section . March 12, 2024 . Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority . 2.
5. https://www.amtrak.com/stations/pas
6. Web site: ArtCenter College of Design Shuttle Route . November 29, 2021 . November 29, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211129183335/http://www.artcenter.edu/acx/uploads/forms/ArtCenterShuttleRoute.pdf . live .
7. Web site: August 28, 2021 . Rose Bowl Shuttle Service . November 29, 2021 . . en-US . November 29, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211129183907/http://foothilltransit.org/rose-bowl/ . live .
8. Web site: That Rapid Bus Line from North Hollywood to Pasadena is Officially Happening . . April 29, 2022 . March 23, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230323170936/https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/that-rapid-bus-line-from-north-hollywood-to-pasadena-is-officially-happening/ar-AAWIjDY?ocid=uxbndlbing . live .
9. Web site: Scauzillo . Steve . 2024-02-20 . Long-planned NoHo-to-Pasadena rapid bus line gains momentum, but road blocks await . 2024-04-25 . Los Angeles Daily News . en-US.