Baldwin Park station

Baldwin Park is a Metrolink train station in Baldwin Park, California, United States, between Pacific Avenue and Ramona Boulevard next to Baldwin Park City Hall.

Baldwin Park
Metrolink commuter rail station
Location3825 Downing Avenue
Baldwin Park, California
United States
Coordinates34.0865°N 117.9574°W / 34.0865; -117.9574
Owned byCity of Baldwin Park
Line(s)SCRRA San Gabriel Subdivision[1]
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks1
Bus operators
Construction
Parking420 spaces[2]
History
OpenedMay 24, 1993 (1993-05-24)[3]
Services
Preceding station Metrolink Following station
El Monte
toward Los Angeles Union Station
 San Bernardino Line Covina
toward San Bernardino–Downtown
Location

The station is owned by the City of Baldwin Park. Foothill Transit and LACMTA bus routes serve the station, and Baldwin Park and West Covina provide municipal shuttles to the station.

Danza Indigenas controversy

In mid-2005, "Save Our State", an anti-illegal immigration group based in Ventura County, launched a series of protests against Danza Indigenas, outdoor artwork at the station by Chicana artist Judy Baca. The monument bears several engraved statements whose origins are not attributed. At issue was one particular inscription – It was better before they came – that Save Our State claimed was directed against Anglo whites. In fact, according to Baca, that sentence was uttered by an Anglo white Baldwin Park politician in the 1950s; he was lamenting the influx of persons of Mexican ancestry into the San Gabriel Valley following World War II. The protests drew counter-protesters, and required city expenditure on crowd control and riot police, an admitted goal of Save Our State.[4][5]

Platforms and tracks
Main track ■ San Bernardino Line toward L.A. Union Station (El Monte)
■ San Bernardino Line toward San Bernardino-Downtown (Covina)

References
  1. SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation.
  2. "Baldwin Park Station". Metrolink.
  3. Simburger, Edward (1998). Railroad-Freeway. Agoura, California: Yerba Seca Publications. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-9649948-1-2.
  4. Thermos, Wendy (26 June 2005). "Immigration Protest in Baldwin Park Is Peaceful". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  5. Miller, Sara B. (29 June 2005). "A monument stirs immigration debate". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 12 October 2016.


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