Sierra Madre Villa station

Sierra Madre Villa
Sierra Madre Villa station platform
General information
Location	149 North Halstead Pasadena, California
Coordinates	34°08′52″N 118°04′53″W / 34.1478°N 118.0813°W / 34.1478; -118.0813
Owned by	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Foothill Transit Los Angeles Metro Bus Pasadena Transit
Construction
Structure type	Freeway median, at-grade
Parking	965 spaces[1]
Bicycle facilities	Racks and lockers[2]
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	July 26, 2003; 20 years ago (2003-07-26)
Services
Preceding station Metro Rail Following station Allen toward Long Beach A Line Arcadia toward Azusa
Location

Sierra Madre Villa station is a light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located in the median of Interstate 210 (Foothill Freeway), at Sierra Madre Villa Avenue, in Pasadena, California. The light rail station opened on July 26, 2003, as the northern terminus of the original Gold Line, then known as the "Pasadena Metro Blue Line" project. The station, under naming schemes, is named for Sierra Madre Villa Avenue rather than the nearby city of Sierra Madre, although the major thoroughfare leads to Sierra Madre.

The station has a 965 space, five-floor parking garage, accessed from Sierra Madre Villa Avenue and North Halstead Street.^[1] The first floor of the parking garage has a multi-bay bus plaza, and the fourth floor has the train platform access, with faregates, ticket vending machines, and a pedestrian bridge, which passes over the westbound lanes of the Foothill Freeway.

Sierra Madre Villa was the Gold Line's northern terminus from 2003 until 2016. Service on the first phase of the Gold Line Foothill Extension Project began on March 5, 2016, which extended the line to APU/Citrus College station.^[3]