Soto station explained

Style:Los Angeles Metro Rail
Soto
Symbol Location:losangeles
Symbol:E
Address:2330 East 1st Street
Borough:Los Angeles, California
Coordinates:34.044°N -118.2106°W
Owned:Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Connections:Los Angeles Metro Bus
Structure:Underground
Bicycle:Racks and lockers[1]
Accessible:Yes
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:14

Soto station is an underground light rail station on the E Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located underneath 1st Street at its intersection with Soto Street in the heart of the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.[2] This station opened in 2009 as part of the Gold Line Eastside Extension and was one of two underground stations on the Eastside Extension (the other being Mariachi Plaza).

Service

Station layout

There are two levels underground: a mezzanine with ticket machines and gates, and below that, an island platform with two tracks. There is one entrance to the station located at the intersection of 1st Street and South Soto Street.

GStreet levelEntrance/Exit
B1MezzanineFaregates, ticket machines, to Entrance/Exit
B2Westbound← toward
Eastbound toward →

Connections

, the following connections are available:[3]

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Points of Interest

The station is walkable to one of the last Pioneer Chicken restaurants in the LA Region, a former chain known for a distinctive breading and unique menu options such as gizzards. In addition, the Evergreen Cemetery interns a number of historically significant figures from the Los Angeles pioneer era. Hollenbeck Park is a historic public park designed in late Victorian style.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Secure Bike Parking on Metro . November 5, 2021 . Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority . en-US . September 6, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210906210731/https://bikehub.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20-2070_Secure_Bike_Parking_Master_Map_jp-ENG.pdf . dead .
  2. http://www.metro.net/projects_studies/eastside/images/ee_destinationsMap.pdf Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension destination map
  3. Web site: December 10, 2023 . E Line Timetable – Connections section . December 26, 2023 . . 1.