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 Cal State LA westbound busway platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 5150 State University Drive Los Angeles, California | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°03′45″N118°10′13″W / 34.0625°N 118.1702°W /34.0625; -118.1702 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Caltrans and California State University, Los Angeles Consortium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | SCRRA San Gabriel Subdivision[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Seeconnections section | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bicycle facilities | Racks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FY 2025 | 929 (avg. wkdy boardings, J Line)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cal State LA station (officiallyCal State Los Angeles station)[3] is acommuter rail andbusway station located on theEl Monte Busway. The station is located betweenInterstate 10 and its namesake, the campus ofCalifornia State University, Los Angeles. It is located in theEl Sereno neighborhood of theCity of Los Angeles andEastside region, in southernCalifornia. The busway portion of the station opened on February 18, 1975,[4] and the Metrolink platform was added on October 26, 1994.[5]
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 singleisland platform station at theLos Angeles County+USC Medical Center but prevent vehicles from entering the busway from the general-purpose lanes of Interstate 10 in the eastbound direction.[6]
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.[7]
The station is served by theMetrolinkSan Bernardino Linecommuter rail line and twobus rapid transit routes: theJ Line, operated by Metro and theSilver Streak, operated byFoothill 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.[8]
J Line buses run 24 hours a day between El Monte, 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.[9]
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.[10]
The busway station is also served byLos Angeles Metro Bus express routes487 and489 along with Foothill Transit routes490,493,495,498,499 and699. Metro's Express 487 route operates all-day, seven days a week; the rest only run during weekday peak periods.[11]
Cal State LA station is served by several bus routes that use bus stops near the station on surface streets:[11]
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,[1] so only the train doors of the last three cars in the direction of travel would open when serving this station.
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