Baldwin Park station
Baldwin Park | |||||||||||
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 Baldwin Park station platform | |||||||||||
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| Location | 3825 Downing Avenue Baldwin Park, California United States | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°05′11″N 117°57′27″W / 34.0865°N 117.9574°W | ||||||||||
| Owner | City of Baldwin Park | ||||||||||
| Line | SCRRA San Gabriel Subdivision[1] | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | 360 paid spaces, 14 accessible spaces[2] | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | May 24, 1993[3] | ||||||||||
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| FY 2026 | 216 (avg. wkdy boardings)[4] | ||||||||||
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Baldwin Park station is a Metrolink train station in Baldwin Park, California, United States, between Pacific Avenue and Ramona Boulevard next to Baldwin Park City Hall.[5] The station is owned by the City of Baldwin Park.
Baldwin Park station is served by 32 Metrolink San Bernardino Line trains (16 in each direction) on weekdays, between 4:53 a.m. and 10:18 p.m. Weekend train service is less: 16 trains (8 in each direction) on Saturdays and Sundays between 7:44 a.m. and 10:10 p.m.[6]
Station artwork
[edit]Danza Indigenas is outdoor artwork at the station by Chicana artist Judy Baca which includes a concrete footpath that represents ceremonial steps performed by early California inhabitants, the Gabrielino and Chumash Indians.[7] The monument bears several engraved statements whose origins are not attributed. In mid-2005, "Save Our State", an anti-illegal immigration group based in Ventura County, launched a series of protests over an inscription – It was better before they came – that Save Our State claimed was directed against whites. According to Baca, that sentence was uttered by a white Baldwin Park politician in the 1950s; he was lamenting the influx of persons of Mexican ancestry into the San Gabriel Valley following World War II. The protests drew counter-protesters, and required city expenditure on crowd control and riot police, an admitted goal of Save Our State.[5][8]
References
[edit]- ↑ SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 19.
- ↑ "Baldwin Park Station". Metrolink.
- ↑ Simburger, Edward (1998). Railroad-Freeway. Agoura, California: Yerba Seca Publications. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-9649948-1-2.
- ↑ "Metrolink FY2026 Station Ridership". misken67 via Metrolink Public Records. August 2026.
- 1 2 Thermos, Wendy (June 26, 2005). "Immigration Protest in Baldwin Park Is Peaceful". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
- ↑ "Train Schedules | Metrolink". metrolinktrains.com. Retrieved August 13, 2026.
- ↑ Dubin, Zan (August 10, 1993). "Muralist Honors California Indians : Art: Judy Baca's $60,000 project to spruce up the Baldwin Park Metrolink rail station puts 'memory into a piece of land.'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
- ↑ Miller, Sara B. (June 29, 2005). "A monument stirs immigration debate". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
External links
[edit]- Baldwin Park – Metrolink
- Danza Indigenas at the Los Angeles Metro website
- Danza Indigenas at the Judy Baca artist website
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