1st Street station (Los Angeles Metro)

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1st St
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1st Street station platform
General information
Location108 North Long Beach Boulevard
Long Beach, California
Coordinates 33°46′06″N118°11′22″W / 33.7683°N 118.1895°W / 33.7683; -118.1895
Owned by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Connections
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
ParkingPaid parking nearby
Bicycle facilitiesLong Beach Bike Share station [1] and racks
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedSeptember 1, 1990;34 years ago (1990-09-01) [2]
Rebuilt
Passengers
FY 2024279 (avg. wkdy boardings) [6]
Services
Preceding station LAMetroLogo.svg Metro Rail Following station
5th Street
One-way operation
A Line Downtown Long Beach
Terminus
Location
1st Street station (Los Angeles Metro)

1st Street station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located in the median of Long Beach Boulevard at its intersection with 1st Street, after which the station is named, in Long Beach, California. [7] The station is on a loop at the south end of the A Line route and only has southbound service.

Contents

During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from venues located at the Long Beach Sports Park including handball at the Long Beach Arena, temporary facilities for BMX and water polo, along with marathon swimming and triathlon in Long Beach harbor. [8]

Service

Hours and frequency

A Line service hours are from approximately 4:30 a.m. and 11:45 p.m daily. Trains operate every 8 minutes during peak hours, Monday to Friday. Trains run every 10 minutes, during midday on weekdays and weekends, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Night and early morning service is approximately every 20 minutes every day. [9]

Connections

As of February 20,2022, the following connections are available: [10]

Station

Breezy and Delightful is a kinetic sculpture artwork by Metro Art commissioned artist Paul Tzanetopoulos, installed at First Street Station. The project draws inspiration from the variety of patterns found in cultural artifacts, particularly textile designs. Tzanetopoulos highlights designs that reflect the unique cultural heritage of the diverse communities in Long Beach. The artwork features rotating, wind-driven kinetic sculptures mounted in the pylons on the station platform. Each pair of counter-rotating disks is perforated with graphic patterns, allowing sea breeze and sunlight to animate the designs and the shadows cast on the platform. [11]

The cut-out graphic patterns were inspired by Tzanetopoulos' ongoing body of work based on Marcel Duchamp's Roto Series, which uses graphic elements and illusions of 3-dimensional and conceptual structures. These rotating sculptures illustrate Duchamp's concepts and are part of Tzanetopoulos' larger interactive installation series, which also features a graphic CD reader designed to musically describe the Roto Series and other works in a similar graphic style. [12]

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