Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center
Anaheim, CA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | 67,000 square feet (6,200 m2), three-floor terminal[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | 1,082 spaces[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Racks and 12 lockers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Status | Staffed, station building with waiting room | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Station code | Amtrak: ANA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | December 6, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FY 2022 | 158,796[5] (Amtrak) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) is an
The station opened in 2014 and replaced a nearby depot and train platforms used by Amtrak and Metrolink.
ARTIC is located in the
Location
The 16-acre (6.5 ha) site is near two freeways: State Route 57, and Interstate 5. The Honda Center is across Katella Avenue on the north side of the site[1] and one of the three gates to Angel Stadium can be reached southwesterly through the Douglass Road underpass.[10] The station has direct access to the Santa Ana River Trail and bicycle racks and lockers. This Metrolink Station also links Disneyland Resort through Anaheim Resort Transportation ARTIC Sports Complex Line 15.[11]
During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from Olympic venues located in Anaheim.[12] The adjacent Honda Center is a planned indoor volleyball venue and Angel Stadium is a planned baseball and softball venue. The station is about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from the Arena at Anaheim, the planned indoor volleyball venue.
Besides local bus service provided by OCTA and ART, travel service to intercity/international destinations is provided from the complex.
It was planned from the start for ARTIC to act as part of a redevelopment of the surrounding area with
In 2022, the city council approved OCVibe which will build a parking structure for the station on the other side of Douglass Road as the current parking area is included in the proposed mixed-use entertainment district around the Honda Center.[19] Funding was approved in 2023 for an elevated pedestrian pathway that will include a bridge over Katella Avenue.[20]
The ARTIC site is the proposed location of a
History of rail service
A branch of the Southern Pacific Railway was extended to Anaheim in 1875. In 1887, a rail line to San Diego was built through the Town by Santa Fe Railway. By 1921, there were two Southern Pacific depots and one Santa Fe depot. The Pacific Electric Railway was also planning on a line to connect with the community.
The Orange County Line began service to the station in 1990 as the Orange County Commuter, an Amtrak-operated service between Los Angeles and San Juan Capistrano. In 1994, the line became Metrolink's fifth route known as the Orange County Line with the purchase of the railroad right-of-way, Surf Line, from Santa Fe.[30] The Inland Empire–Orange County Line that runs from San Bernardino through Orange County to Oceanside does not stop here but at nearby Anaheim Canyon station. Both Metrolink lines stop at Orange, the next stop to the south. An average of 500 Metrolink and 400 Amtrak passengers boarded trains daily in the last year of operation of the previous Anaheim station.[3]
Site development and construction
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The current site was formerly occupied by the Orange County "Katella Yard" with outdated facilities for the county surveyor, the agricultural commissioner, public works transportation, watershed protection, and flood control operations and maintenance. Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) was the lead agency in acquiring the 13.5-acre (5.5 ha) property from the county. On November 21, 2006, the Orange County Board of Supervisors approved the sale and relocation of their operations to clear the site for the new complex.[31] In July 2012, the city of Anaheim, which already owned 2.2 acres (0.89 ha) of the site, agreed to buy the balance of the property from OCTA for $32.5-million as they could not come to terms over a lease. Anaheim will make payments to OCTA over 14 years at a 2 percent simple-interest rate.[32]
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) clearance was completed in October 2010 and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) clearance was completed in 2012.[33] KTGY Architecture + Planning was responsible for obtaining approvals, entitlements and creating the land plan.[34] The team of PB/HOK completed design development in May 2012.[35] The construction contract was awarded to Clark Construction Group-California, LP.[4] A ground breaking ceremony for the facility took place in September 2012 and train service began on December 6, 2014.[26][36] A 30-year lease agreement was approved in January 2013 to allow the Orange County Water District to construct an injection water well and appurtenant facilities on the site.[37]
Construction finances
The main terminal was about $68 million of the total construction cost of $185 million. Operation and maintenance of the terminal was expected to cost $5 million annually but was reduced to $3.8 during the first year though various cost savings, including having the city division of conventions, sports and entertainment take over management.
Measure M, a sales tax that funds transportation projects, was the main funding source for the construction of ARTIC.[38][39] The overall $120 million construction of ARTIC along with environmental studies and connections aspects of the project put the total price tag closer to $185.2 million.[40] The main terminal was about $68 million of the cost.[32] A conflict between Metrolink and Amtrak over the platform's height so that it could be used by accessible passengers was one of the biggest issues that had to be resolved during the construction. The redesign of the train platform added extra costs along with expenses for rail improvements but the project was within the project budget as there was a $6 million contingency fund for unanticipated costs.[40]
Structure
The tubular
The building was certified
Artist Mikyoung Kim was selected to complete the sole piece of public art slated for the complex.[40] A dynamic holographic experience was integrated into the grand staircase of the main lobby. Different conditions of time and phenomena transform the atmospheric images.[45]
Reception
The transit center has been praised for its aesthetics.[46][47] It has been praised for acting as a civic landmark for the city of Anaheim (being described as perhaps acting as a tourist attraction itself) and for featuring a pleasant and grand interior space, which has been likened to stations from the peak of American rail transit (such as Grand Central Terminal and former Pennsylvania Station building).[41][48][46][49][50] In 2014, hailing it as a "world class transportation gateway to Orange County, the American Institute of Architects described the station as, comining "the heritage and civic importance of the grand 19th century rail stations of the past with the size, scale and complexity of today's modern airport terminals."[41] Its shape has also been described as reminiscent to the airship hangars, driving comparisons to the historically notable structures also located in Orange County.[48][51] The project received a 2014 American Institute of Architects Technology in Architectural Practice Building Information Modeling Award.[52][50]
The station's physical layout has received criticism due to the lengthy route that users need to take to reach the train platforms and the physical distance between the station building and the platforms. Some commuters transferring between bus and train have called the layout "dysfunctional" for pedestrians.[53][54] Additionally, the transit center's location in the middle of a vast area full of various parking lots has been criticized for being isolated.[46]
Operational costs and revenue sources
The city of Anaheim is responsible for the ongoing operating and maintenance costs and planned for the facility to be self-funded. Potential revenue sources anticipated in the planning were advertising, a naming-rights sponsor, and leases from tenant business. During the first years, most of the funding has come from the 2 percent assessment from the resort area hotel guests collected by the Anaheim Tourism Improvement District. Some additional funds have come from Measure M2 which is a half-cent countywide sales tax that helps pay for transportation improvements.[53] The city eventually began to obtain lease revenue from commercial tenants but has continued to manage costs at the depot and seek more revenue through events and filming.[55]
Two 35-foot-tall monument signs (11 m) were approved that display static directions and center advertising for the
Anaheim had originally planned for the sales of naming rights to be a source of revenue.[17]
In popular culture
The station was featured in
In the second season of The Morning Show, the station was used as a mock of a train station for the show's Wuhan, China scene.[62]
Ridership
In 2013, the last year before the new facility opened, the station averaged approximately 500 daily Metrolink boardings and 400 daily Amtrak boardings.[17] There were roughly 224,500 annual Amtrak passengers (arrivals and departures) in 2013.[18]
City officials had originally projected that, after the station was rebuilt as the ARCTIC, daily ridership would eventually amount to more than 10,330 boardings, and predicted that initial ridership would see nearly 3,000 daily boardings.[41][63] However, the project had been advertised as though 10,000 riders were expected on opening day.[17] Initially, a typical weekday saw about 2,400 transit riders, increasing to 3,900 on days with concerts and/or sporting events at the nearby venues.[55]
By 2019, 4,200 to 5,500 riders were passing through on any given day.[1] Amtrak trains had 287,415 boardings and departures that year.[18] In addition, Amtrak Thruway intercity bus services (which connect the station to/from eight cities) saw 950 passengers to/from ARTIC in 2019.[18]
Amtrak ridership
In 2019, Amtrak handled 242,032 arrivals and departures at the station. All of these were coach and business class tickets
In 2019, the average trip to/from the station was 73 miles (117 km) in distance. 91.8% of all trips at the station were to/from stations less than 100 miles (160 km) from the station, 5.9% were to stations between 100 and 200 miles (320 km) away, and 2.2% were to stations more than 200 miles (320 km) away.[18]
In 2019, the average Amtrak fare to/from the station cost $25.00, and the average yield per mile (revenue generated per passenger mile) on trips to/from the station was $0.347.[18]
Annual Amtrak passenger traffic
Year | Passengers (in thousands) |
Change |
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2013 | 214.5 | -- |
2014 | 212.8 | 1.0% |
2015 | 236.3 | 11.0% |
2016 | 243.9 | 3.2% |
2017 | 247.6 | 1.5% |
2018 | 256.6 | 3.6% |
2019 | 242.0 | 5.7% |
Top station pairs by Amtrak ridership
The following is the top-ten stations which receive the most ridership to/from ARTIC out of the twenty-eight stations that the Pacific Surfliner connects ARTIC to/from.[18]
Rank | Station | City | Distance from ARTIC |
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1 | Santa Fe Depot
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San Diego, California
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97 miles (156 km) |
2 | Union Station | Los Angeles, California
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31 miles (50 km) |
3 | Old Town Transit Center | San Diego, California
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94 miles (151 km) |
4 | Solana Beach | Solana Beach, California | 71 miles (114 km) |
5 | Oceanside Transit Center | Oceanside, California | 56 miles (90 km) |
6 | Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, California | 135 miles (217 km) |
7 | San Juan Capistrano | San Juan Capistrano, California | 27 miles (43 km) |
8 | Irvine Transportation Center | Irvine, California | 14 miles (23 km) |
9 | San Luis Obispo | San Luis Obispo, California | 253 miles (407 km) |
10 | Goleta | Goleta, California | 143 miles (230 km) |
Top station pairs by Amtrak revenue
The following is the top-ten stations which generate the most revenue from trips to/from ARTIC out of the twenty-eight stations that the Pacific Surfliner connects ARTIC to/from.[18]
Rank | Station | City | Distance from ARTIC |
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1 | Santa Fe Depot | San Diego, California
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97 miles (156 km) |
2 | Old Town Transit Center | San Diego, California
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94 miles (151 km) |
3 | Union Station | Los Angeles, California
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31 miles (50 km) |
4 | Solana Beach | Solana Beach, California | 71 miles (114 km) |
5 | Oceanside Transit Center | Oceanside, California | 56 miles (90 km) |
6 | Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, California | 135 miles (217 km) |
7 | San Luis Obispo | San Luis Obispo, California | 253 miles (407 km) |
8 | Goleta | Goleta, California | 143 miles (230 km) |
9 | San Juan Capistrano | San Juan Capistrano, California | 27 miles (43 km) |
9 | Ventura | Ventura, California | 108 miles (174 km) |
Hours and frequency
Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center is served by 20 Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trains (ten in each direction) evenly spaced throughout the day.[64]
Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center is served by 19 Metrolink Orange County Line trains (10 northbound and 9 southbound) each weekday, running primarily at peak hours in the peak direction of travel. Weekend service consists of 4 trains (2 in each direction) on both Saturday and Sunday, running in each direction in the morning and evening.[65]
Platforms and tracks
Station | Ticket machines, Station agent | |
Platforms | ||
Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Northbound | ← (Fullerton) | |
Southbound | Orange ) →
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Side platform, doors will open on the right |
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