The C Line platform for this station is located in the median strip of Interstate 105. The station's official name memorializes Rosa Parks, an African-American civil rights activist. From the Blue (A) Line's opening on July 14, 1990 until the Green (C) Line opened on August 12, 1995 the Blue Line station platform was known as Imperial station Transit Security Center and security surveillance: The new Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station community plaza will include a Transit Security Center oriented and designed to maximize eyes on the plaza, bus bays, parking lot, and extended Blue Line platform. This state of the art facility will house security office space, surveillance technology The Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station is currently the second busiest light rail station on the Metro System after 7th Street/Metro Center in downtown Los Angeles. Metro will add Bus Line 53 (Central Av) to the Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station in December 2021. More bus lines are planned to serve the station in 2022. Since the completion of the Metro Blue Line in 1990 and the Metro Green Line in 1995, the Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station has evolved from a neighborhood station into the fourth most heavily used station in the Metro system. The Willowbrook /Rosa Parks Improvement Project will provide significant upgrades to this busy station, expanding Here are a few steps Metro might take to continue to improve the rider experience at Rosa Parks Station: Rosa Parks station still needs lots of first/last mile improvements. These would be adjacent to and near the station - in public rights-of-way controlled by the city and the county, so they go beyond just Metro's responsibility. The new customer center, located at the Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station on the A Line (Blue) opened to the public today. Metro Board Chair and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is pictured in front; behind him and following COVID-19 protocols are from left to right, Metro CEO Phillip A. Washington, Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metro Board Growing up within walking distance of Avalon and a one stop ride to Willowbrook/Rosa Parks anytime I pass this Metro Blue A Line station that connects to the Metro Green C line I flashback to those 90s vibes. The Kenneth Hahn Plaza very nearby was a plaza we frequented - the McDonald's, Denny's and everything that was once there. After six months of construction, the $109-million improvement project at Metro's Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station is beginning to show results. The station - which is the transfer point between Metro's Blue and Green Lines -is the fourth busiest in the Metro Rail system. The host of upgrades included in this project includes: Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station is the agency’s fourth-busiest rail stop. On top of the Blue Line, it’s served by numerous buses, and riders can also transfer to the Green Line light rail Right now, until 6 p.m. today, Metro is hosting a community celebration of the completion of its newly renovated Rosa Parks Station - located at the intersection of the Metro A (Blue) and C (Green) Lines. If you're in the area, drop by light refreshments, community booths, free vaccinations, and more - and, of course, check out the beautiful We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The Rosa Parks station in Watts/Willowbrook, looking southward along the Blue Line. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A. Metro kicked off the Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station Improvement Project yesterday, as all good groundbreakings do, with a photo-friendly demolition of structures that, to observers, symbolize the stagnation the project aims to remedy. The Federal Transit Administration kicked in $10.25 million for the improvements to the Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station as part of the New Blue Improvements Project, creating an improved Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station Improvement Project 8 for Packages A+C was awarded to Icon West Inc. (IWI) in June 2018 with construction commencing in August 2018. This Project was expedited to allow for the A Line Station Work to be completed in time for the New Blue Opening. As a result of these efforts, the WRP A Line Station opened to the D Line Subway Extension Project. Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station Events Venues Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station 11611 Willowbrook Ave Los Angeles, 90059 Get Directions. This station evolved from a neighborhood station into the fourth most heavily used station in the Metro system. The Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station Improvement Project provides significant upgrades to this busy station, expanding its multi-modal capacity and role as a quality community resource, ushering it into a new era of Metro Rail. UPDATE (Jan 2025): GTrans will continue to operate on the current weekday schedule, but now with an improved 30-minute frequency along with adding a new weekend service at a peak frequency of 30 minutes, between the Metro Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station in Compton and the Aviation/LAX Station in El Segundo. A Line (Blue) A Line (Blue))) a Pico Grand WILLOWBROOK RANCHO DOMINGUEZ KNOLLS WATTS Downtown Long Beach 10 Willowbrook/ Rosa Parks Watts Towers Los Angeles Trade Tech College Long Beach See 135 photos and 43 tips from 2262 visitors to Metro Rail - Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station (A). "Sheriff station right next to metro station so" Light Rail Station in Los Angeles, CA The sign features an image of Parks saying, “Today, this seat is reserved in honor of Rosa Parks.” The tribute comes on what would have been her 112 th birthday. This year also marks the 20 th anniversary of Metro’s historic Rosa Parks bus. The commemorative bus is the same model she protested on and was refurbished in 2005 after Parks
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