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Commuter rail and busway station in Los Angeles, California

Cal State L.A.
Cal State LA westbound busway platform
General information
Location5150 State University Drive
Los Angeles, California
Coordinates34°03′45″N 118°10′13″W / 34.0625°N 118.1702°W / 34.0625; -118.1702
Owned byCaltrans and California State University, Los Angeles Consortium
Operated byLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Line(s)SCRRA San Gabriel Subdivision
Platforms
Tracks1
ConnectionsSee connections section
Construction
Bicycle facilitiesRacks
AccessibleYes
History
Opened
  • February 18, 1975 (1975-02-18) (Busway)
  • October 26, 1994 (1994-10-26) (Metrolink)
Passengers
FY 2024899 (avg. wkdy boardings, J Line)
Services
Preceding station Metrolink Following station
L.A. Union StationTerminus San Bernardino Line El Montetoward San Bernardino–Downtown
Preceding station Metro Busway Following station
LA General Medical Centertoward Harbor Gateway or San Pedro J Line El MonteTerminus
Location

Cal State LA station (officially Cal State Los Angeles station) is a commuter rail and busway station located on the El Monte Busway. The station is located between Interstate 10 and its namesake, the campus of California State University, Los Angeles. It is located in the El Sereno neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles and Eastside region, in southern California. The busway portion of the station opened on February 18, 1975, and the Metrolink platform was added on October 26, 1994.

Just west of this station, the westbound busway lanes cross over the eastbound lanes, reversing the normal placement of the lanes. They remain reversed until the western terminus of the El Monte Busway at Union Station. The reversed lanes allow buses to serve by a single island platform station at the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center but prevent vehicles from entering the busway from the general-purpose lanes of Interstate 10 in the eastbound direction.

Just east of this station, the busway and train tracks move off the separate right of way and move into the median of Interstate 10.

Service

The station is served by the Metrolink San Bernardino Line commuter rail line and two bus rapid transit routes: the J Line, operated by Metro and the Silver Streak, operated by Foothill Transit.

Cal State LA station is served by 44 Metrolink San Bernardino Line trains (22 in each direction) each weekday, with trains arriving every 30 minutes for most of the day, and every 60 minutes in the early morning and evening. Weekend service consists of 16 trains (8 in each direction) on both Saturday and Sunday, evenly spaced throughout the day.

J Line buses run 24 hours a day between El Monte Station, Downtown Los Angeles, and the Harbor Gateway Transit Center, as route 910. Some trips continue to San Pedro between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. and are signed as Route 950. On weekdays, buses operate every four to eight minutes during peak hours. They operate every 10 minutes in the midday, 20 minutes during evenings, 40 minutes during nights, and every hour overnight. On weekends, buses arrive every 15 minutes most of the day. They operate every 20 minutes during evenings, 40 minutes during nights, and every hour overnight.

Silver Streak buses run 24 hours a day between the Montclair Transit Center, El Monte Station, and Downtown Los Angeles. On weekdays, buses operate every 15 minutes most of the day, every 30 minutes during evenings and every hour overnight.

The busway station is also served by Los Angeles Metro Bus express routes 487 and 489 along with Foothill Transit routes 490, 493, 495, 498, 499 and 699. Metro's Express 487 route operates all-day, seven days a week; the rest only run during weekday peak periods.

Local bus connections

Cal State LA station is also served by several bus routes that use bus stops near the station on surface streets:

Station layout

Cal State LA station has a unique multi-level design. The street-level facilities are on the south end of the Cal State LA campus and include ticket vending machines and bus plaza. The westbound busway platform is one level below the street level. On the lowest level, the train platform is located directly under the westbound busway platform and the eastbound busway platform is reached from a bridge across both lanes of the busway.

The Metrolink platform at Cal State LA station is only 258 feet (79 m) long, about half the length of the typical Metrolink platform, so not all train doors open when serving this station.

Gallery

  • Eastbound platform. Eastbound platform.
  • Bridge to the eastbound platform. Bridge to the eastbound platform.

References

  1. ^ SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 19.
  2. "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.
  3. "Rail Station Naming" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 15, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
  4. "February 18: This Date in Los Angeles Transportation History". Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive. December 29, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  5. "Cal State L.A. station opens on S.B. rail line". The San Bernardino County Sun. October 27, 1994. p. 3. Retrieved July 6, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Hillmer, Jon; Parry, Stephen T. (June 5, 1994). The El Monte Busway: A Twenty-Year Retrospective (PDF) (Report). Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved November 30, 2020 – via Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive.
  7. "From Dream to Reality El Monte-Los Angeles Busway" (PDF). Southern California Rapid Transit District. 1975. Retrieved November 30, 2020 – via Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive.
  8. "San Bernardino Line Schedule Updates". Metrolink. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
  9. "J Line Timetable" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 15, 2024. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
  10. "Silver Streak Timetable" (PDF). Foothill Transit. November 14, 2021. Retrieved January 7, 2022.
  11. ^ "J Line Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 15, 2024. p. 2. Retrieved January 20, 2025.

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