1st Street station (Los Angeles Metro)

1st St
1st Street station platform
General information
Location	108 North Long Beach Boulevard Long Beach, California
Coordinates	33.7683°N 118.1895°W / 33.7683; -118.1895
Owned by	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	1
Connections	Long Beach Transit Los Angeles Metro Bus
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	Paid parking nearby
Bicycle facilities	Long Beach Bike Share station[1] and racks
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	September 1, 1990; 34 years ago (1990-09-01)[2]
Rebuilt	October 20, 2014[3][4] June 1, 2019[5]
Passengers
FY 2024	279 (avg. wkdy boardings)[6]
Services
Preceding station Metro Rail Following station 5th Street One-way operation A Line Downtown Long Beach Terminus
Location

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.

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^[update], the following connections are available:[10]

• Long Beach Transit: Passport
• Los Angeles Metro Bus: 60 (late night only), 232

Station

Breezy and Delightful is a kinetic sculpture project 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]

Notable places nearby

• Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center
• Long Beach Terrace Theater

References

1. "Long Beach Bike Share map". Long Beach Bike Share. Retrieved March 3, 2022.^[permanent dead link‍]
2. "New Long Beach Loop". The Los Angeles Times. September 1, 1990. p. B10. Archived from the original on March 23, 2023. Retrieved December 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
3. Chen, Anna (August 20, 2014). "A better Blue Line: 30-day closure of four Blue Line stations in Long Beach to begin Sep 20". Metro The Source. Archived from the original on March 4, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
4. Chen, Anna (October 17, 2014). "A Better Blue Line: last week of work during Long Beach Loop closure". Metro The Source. Archived from the original on March 4, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
5. "Metro Blue Line Announces New Closures Starting June 1". KNBC-TV. City News Service. April 1, 2019. Archived from the original on March 4, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
6. "FY2024 Ridership by Station". misken67 via Los Angeles Metro Public Records. August 2024.
7. "Metro Blue Line Connections" (PDF). Metro. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 25, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
8. "Games Plan". 2028 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
9. "Metro A Line schedule". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
10. "A Line Timetable - Connections section" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. February 20, 2022. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 3, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
11. "Breezy and Delightful". Metro Art. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
12. "Breezy and Delightful". Metro Art. Retrieved December 20, 2024.

External links

Media related to 1st Street (Los Angeles Metro station) at Wikimedia Commons