Historic Broadway
A Line  E Line 
Historic Broadway station platform
General information
Location202 South Broadway
Los Angeles, California
Coordinates 34°03′07″N 118°14′46″W / 34.052023°N 118.246104°W / 34.052023; -118.246104
Owned byLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsSee Connections section
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
ParkingPaid parking nearby
Bicycle facilitiesMetro Bike Share station,[1] racks, lockers
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedJune 16, 2023 (2023-06-16)
Previous names2nd St/Broadway
Services
Preceding station Metro Rail Following station
Little Tokyo/Arts District
toward APU/Citrus College
 A Line Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill
toward Long Beach
Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill
toward Santa Monica
 E Line Little Tokyo/Arts District
toward Atlantic
Location

Historic Broadway station is an underground light rail station on the A Line and the E Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located at the southeast corner of 2nd Street and Broadway in the Historic Core section of Downtown Los Angeles.[2] In planning documents, the station was originally going to be named 2nd St/Broadway.[3]

Historic Broadway was built as part of the Regional Connector project, a tunnel through Downtown Los Angeles. The station is sited in privately owned land and required an agreement with the property's owner, which reserved the right to build a high-rise building above the station entrance on the site in the future. It was constructed via the sequential excavation method, the first time Metro has utilized the process.[4]

Service

Station layout

S Street plaza Entrance/Exit, faregates, ticket machines
C Concourse To Entrance/Exit
P Platform level Northbound/
Eastbound		 ←  A Line toward APU/Citrus College (Little Tokyo/Arts District)
←  E Line toward Atlantic (Little Tokyo/Arts District)
Island platform, doors will open on the left
Southbound/
Westbound		  A Line toward Long Beach (Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill)
 E Line toward Santa Monica (Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill) →

Hours and frequency

A Line trains run every day between approximately 4:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. Trains operate every 10 minutes during peak hours Monday through Friday, and every twelve minutes during the daytime on weekdays and all day on the weekends. Evening service (after 7 p.m.) is every 20 minutes.[5]

E Line trains run every day between approximately 4:30 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. Trains operate every 10 minutes during peak hours Monday through Friday, and every twelve minutes during the daytime on weekdays and all day on the weekends. Evening service (after 7 p.m.) is every 20 minutes.[6]

Station artwork

Entrance to the station, with Bowers' The People United on display

Historic Broadway station is home to four Metro Art-commissioned artworks.

The station's glass entry pavilion is wrapped in Andrea Bowers' The People United (“El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,” Sergio Ortega and Quilapayun; “Brown Beret 13 Point Political Program,” La Causa) which features text artwork of revolutionary slogans such as “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido” (the people united will never be divided) and “By independence we mean the right to self-determination, self-government and freedom.” According to Metro Art, "the first text is often heard chanted at marches and political demonstrations around the world; it originated in Chile between 1969 and 1973 in support of Salvador Allende’s presidential election and evolved into an anthem composed by Sergio Ortega for the Chilean Popular Unity coalition. The second is taken from a mission statement of the Brown Berets, a Chicano civil rights group founded in East Los Angeles and active during the late 1960s and early 1970s."[7]

The station's mezzanine level is home to Mark Steven Greenfield's Red Car Requiem, which, according to Metro Art, "symboliz[es] destinations along a route, [with] a series of rosette-like clusters of curvilinear shapes [...] connected by sweeping lines. Each rosette contains the unique shapes that were once punched into Red Car passenger tickets."[8]

The station is also home to a platform mural by photojournalist Clarence Williams, entitled Migrations, and a temporary lightbox art installation by Ralph Gilbert, Performance on the Streets of LA.

Transit connections

As of June 16, 2023, the following connections are available:[9]

Note: * indicates commuter service that operates only during weekday rush hours.

Notable places nearby

The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:[10]

Historic Broadway station plaza under construction in January 2023

References

  1. ↑ "Station Map". Metro Bike Share. January 27, 2015. Archived from the original on January 2, 2022. Retrieved November 13, 2021.
  2. ↑ "2nd St/Broadway Station". Archived from the original on 2018-10-26. Retrieved 2017-05-14.
  3. ↑ "Actions taken today by the Metro Board of Directors". 23 February 2017. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "Tunnel Achievement Award: LA Metro's Regional Connector". Tunnel Business Magazine. 12 August 2020. Archived from the original on 23 August 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "Metro A Line schedule". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Metro E Line schedule". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. June 16, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  7. ↑ "The People United ("El pueblo unido jamás será vencido," Sergio Ortega and Quilapayun; "Brown Beret 13 Point Political Program," La Causa) – Art". 2023-10-18. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  8. ↑ "Red Car Requiem – Art". 2023-10-18. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  9. ↑ "A Line Timetable – Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. June 16, 2023. p. 2. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Downtown Los Angeles Destination Guide" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 8, 2023.


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