Artesia station
Artesia station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located alongside the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway), at its intersection with Artesia Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the city of Compton, California.
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| Location | 19201⁄2 Acacia Avenue Compton, California | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33.8766°N 118.2227°W | ||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | ||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||||||
| Parking | 380 spaces | ||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | July 14, 1990 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | June 1, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Dominguez (Pacific Electric) | ||||||||||||||||
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Artesia is a park and ride station with 380 parking spaces. The station is near the southern border of Compton, California near the unincorporated community of Rancho Dominguez. It is on Artesia Boulevard near the intersection of Alameda Street. It is also close to the Artesia Freeway (SR 91).
A June 7, 2012, editorial in the Los Angeles Times described the station as,"extremely unfriendly to pedestrians" and,"a Third World train station."