Downtown Inglewood station
Downtown Inglewood station is an at-grade light rail station on the K Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located alongside Florence Avenue between Market and Locust Streets in the central business district of the city of Inglewood, California.
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 Downtown Inglewood station platform | |||||||||||
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| Location | 321 East Florence Avenue Inglewood, California | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°58′01″N 118°21′05″W / 33.966996°N 118.351389°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | 6 racks, 8 lockers | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | October 7, 2022[1] | ||||||||||
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| FY 2024 | 355 (avg. wkdy boardings)[2] | ||||||||||
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The station opened on October 7, 2022.[1] Metro held a ceremonial ribbon cutting ceremony for the station on September 10, 2022.[3]
The station incorporates artwork by the artist Kenturah Davis.[4]
During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from venues located in Inglewood including opening and closing ceremonies, soccer games, and archery at SoFi Stadium, gymnastics at the Kia Forum and basketball at Intuit Dome.[5]
The station is served by the SoFi Stadium Shuttle on football game days and for other major events including some concerts. Buses typically leave every 5-8 minutes to transport fans to the stadium. To speed service, fares are not collected onboard the shuttle, but valid Metro fare is still required onboard trains.
Service
editHours and frequency
editK Line service hours are approximately from 4:30 a.m. until 12:00 a.m. daily. Trains operate every 10 minutes throughout the most of the day. Trains run every 20 minutes after 8:00 p.m. every day and before 8:00 a.m. on weekends.[6]
Connections
editAs of spring 2024, the following connections are available:[7][8]
- Los Angeles Metro Bus: 40, 111, 211, 212, 215
- Torrance Transit: 10
- SoFi Stadium Shuttle (service to home games at SoFi Stadium)
- Intuit Dome Shuttle (service to all events at Intuit Dome)
Notable places nearby
editThe station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
- Centinela Park, including the Aguaje de Centinela monuments
- Helen Lundeberg’s massive WPA-era History of Transportation petrachrome mosaic mural at Grevillea Art Park
- Inglewood City Hall
- Inglewood Post Office, a WPA Moderne-style building with a New Deal sculpture, Archibald Garner’s “Centinela Springs” mahogany carving, and the bas relief “Buffalo, Bear, Ram, Lion” (Newell & Peticolas) on the exterior, created 1937[9]
- Inglewood Public Library (at Inglewood City Hall), with its substantial collection of framed original children’s book illustrations[citation needed]
- Inglewood Courthouse
- Market Street
Downtown Inglewood station and nearby Fairview Heights station are both within walking distance of the following sporting venues:
- Hollywood Park Casino, originally part of Hollywood Park Racetrack (1938–2013), still offers off-track betting on horse races
- Kia Forum, commonly known as the Forum
- SoFi Stadium
- Intuit Dome
See also
edit- Inglewood Depot (1887–~1973)
References
edit- ^ a b Patel, Tine (October 7, 2022). "LA Metro's new K Line opens today". CBS. Archived from the original on October 7, 2022. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ^ "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.
- ^ Scauzillo, Steve (September 10, 2022). "Photos: Downtown Inglewood Station – Metro's sixth K-Line train hub – is dedicated". Los Angeles Daily News. Archived from the original on September 13, 2022. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
- ^ Broverman, Neal (January 22, 2018). "An Early Look at All the Artwork Coming to the Metro Crenshaw Line Los Angeles Magazine". Los Angeles Magazine. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
- ^ "Games Plan". 2028 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
- ^ "Metro K Line schedule". November 3, 2024. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
- ^ "K Line Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. p. 2. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
- ^ "Line 212 Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. p. 2. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
- ^ Gnerre, Sam (September 26, 2022). "South Bay history: WPA art works have enlivened the Inglewood post office since the 1930s". Daily Breeze. Archived from the original on October 7, 2022. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
External links
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Media related to Downtown Inglewood station at Wikimedia Commons