Washington station (Los Angeles Metro)

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Washington
Washington station platform
General information
Location	1945 Long Beach Avenue Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34°01′13″N 118°14′35″W / 34.0204°N 118.2431°W / 34.0204; -118.2431
Owned by	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Montebello Bus Lines
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	July 14, 1990; 34 years ago (1990-07-14)
Rebuilt	November 2, 2019[1]
Services
Preceding station Metro Rail Following station San Pedro Street toward Azusa A Line Vernon toward Long Beach
Location

Washington 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 center median of Long Beach Avenue (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway and shared with the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision) at its intersection with Washington Boulevard, in South Los Angeles.^[2]

At this station, the A Line changes from the roughly northwest-to-southeast direction down the center of Washington Boulevard to the north–south direction down the center median of Long Beach Avenue.