El Monte station (Metrolink)

This article is about the rail station. For the bus station, see El Monte Station.
El Monte
El Monte station platform
General information
Location10925 Railroad Street
El Monte, California
United States
Coordinates34°04′36″N 118°02′08″W / 34.0768°N 118.0356°W / 34.0768; -118.0356
Owned byCity of El Monte
Line(s)SCRRA San Gabriel Subdivision[1]
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks4
ConnectionsSee Connections section
Construction
Parking238 spaces, 11 accessible spaces[2]
Bicycle facilitiesRacks, lockers[2]
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedOctober 26, 1992 (1992-10-26)[3]
Services
Preceding station Metrolink Following station
Cal State L.A.
toward L.A. Union Station
 San Bernardino Line Baldwin Park
toward San Bernardino–Downtown
     San Bernardino Line Express does not stop here
Location
Map

El Monte station is a train station on Metrolink's San Bernardino Line in El Monte, California. It is at 10925 Railroad Street between Santa Anita and Tyler Avenues north of Valley Boulevard. It has 238 parking spaces. The station is owned by the City of El Monte.[4]

El Monte station is served by 34 Metrolink San Bernardino Line trains (17 in each direction) each weekday, running primarily at peak hours in the peak direction of travel. Weekend service consists of 16 trains (8 in each direction) on both Saturday and Sunday, evenly spaced throughout the day.[5]

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has plans to relocate the station to be closer to the J Line station. Currently, the stations are approximately three-fourths of a mile apart from each other.[6]

Connections

The station is located directly across Railroad Street from the El Monte Trolley Station, the hub for the city's El Monte Transit system. Each of the agencies five color-coded routes (Blue, Green, Orange, Red, Yellow) stop at the Trolley Station every day of the week.[7] In addition, the city also operates two commuter shuttles to the Civic Center and Flair Park on weekdays.[8]

In addition, other regional bus operators stop near the station. Foothill Transit route 492 and Los Angeles Metro Bus route 287 stop on Santa Anita Ave to the west of the station, while Los Angeles Metro Bus route 268 stops on Tyler Avenue to the east of the station.

References

  1. ^ SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 19.
  2. ^ a b "El Monte Train Station". Metrolink. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
  3. ^ Stein, Mark A. (October 27, 1992). "Rail Commuter Era Beings in L.A." Los Angeles Times. pp. 1, 23. Retrieved July 6, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "El Monte Train Station". Metrolink. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  5. ^ "El Monte Station Relocation Feasibility Study". Metro. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
  6. ^ "Trolleys". El Monte Transit. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
  7. ^ "Shuttles". El Monte Transit. Retrieved September 29, 2022.


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