Willow Street station

Los Angeles Metro Rail station

Preceding station	Metro Rail			Following station
Wardlow toward Azusa		A Line		Pacific Coast Highway toward Downtown Long Beach

Former services

Preceding station	Pacific Electric			Following station
Morgan Avenue Terminus		Long Beach		Vista del Mar towards Pacific Electric Building
Burnett towards Balboa		Balboa		Vista del Mar towards Pacific Electric Building

Location

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.^[4]

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

Station layout

Northbound	← A Line toward Azusa (Wardlow)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Southbound	→ A Line toward Downtown Long Beach (Pacific Coast Highway) →

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.^[5]

Connections

As of April 9, 2023^[update], the following connections are available:^[6]

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.
^ "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. April 9, 2023. p. 2. Retrieved April 13, 2023.