Harbor Gateway Transit Center

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Harbor Gateway Transit Center
J Line 
Harbor Gateway Transit Center platform
General information
Location731 West 182nd Street
Gardena, California
Coordinates33°52′11″N 118°17′16″W / 33.86973°N 118.28790°W / 33.86973; -118.28790
Operated byLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Line(s)See Services section
Platforms1 island platform
Bus stands12
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Parking980 spaces[1]
Bicycle facilitiesLockers[2]
AccessibleYes
History
Previous namesArtesia Transit Center
Services
Preceding station Metro Busway Following station
Rosecrans
toward El Monte
 J Line
910
 Terminus
J Line
950
 Carson
(with interim stops)
toward San Pedro
Location
Map

Harbor Gateway Transit Center, formerly Artesia Transit Center, is a large

bus bays and a 980 space park and ride parking lot located in the southwest corner of Interstate 110 (Harbor Freeway) and California State Route 91
(Gardena Freeway).

The station is one of the stops on

San Pedro as part of the Metro Busway system. J Line buses serve the station twenty-four hours a day; the headway
between buses is about four minutes during peak periods, with less frequent service at other times.

The Harbor Transitway also serves as a hub for

Dodger Stadium Express, the SoFi Stadium Shuttle (via GTrans) and Galaxy Express (to Dignity Health Sports Park
).

The station, originally called the Artesia Transit Center, was built between 1989 and 1996 as part of the Harbor Transitway project and opened to passengers on August 1, 1996.

Five 450-kW DC fast chargers are to be installed at the station to support electrification of the J Line. These will use the overhead inverted pantograph style connector under SAE standard J3105.[3]

History

The transit center, originally named the Artesia Transit Center, was built as the southern terminus of the

Interstate 110 (Harbor Freeway) north to Downtown Los Angeles.[4]
: 2 

After about 20 years of planning and construction,[4]: i  the Harbor Transitway was opened on June 26, 1996, at a cost of $498 million.[5] Because of uncertainty on the opening date, buses would not start using the facility until a few weeks later on August 1, 1996.[5] The project was built by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the transit facilities would be operated by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) after completion.

Caltrans envisioned that the transit center and transitway would offer a similar function to the

hub-and-spoke system for the South Bay where riders can transfer between buses. In 1993, Metro staff recommended the creation of a "dual hub" system with a trunk route that served both the Harbor Transitway and the older El Monte Busway.[4]: 5  Ultimately, the Metro Board of Directors decided to largely continue to running bus routes as they had before.[5]

Ridership on the Harbor Transitway was radically lower than expected: Caltrans had projected that 65,200 passengers would travel along the Harbor Transitway each day, but after 10 years, ridership fell far below those predictions, with the route seeing just 3,000 passengers per weekday in 2004.[6] That amount is low compared to the El Monte Busway, which had 32,000 boardings a day in November 2000.[6]

On November 18, 2000, a 9.3-mile (15.0 km) section of the Harbor Freeway south of State Route 91 was widened, and new bus new stations were added on the shoulder, allowing some bus routes to be extended south to

San Pedro.[6]

Metro returned to its plan for a dual-hub route in 2009, proposing a new bus rapid transit service called the

high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, to be branded as the Metro ExpressLanes. The Silver Line began operations on December 13, 2009, with Metro planning to refurbish the aging stations along both corridors over the coming years, including the Artesia Transit Center. As part of the change, several Metro routes would now terminate at the transit center.[7]

Platform as message signs were being installed

Improvements to the transit center started in December 2010 with the installation of bike lockers, adding improved lighting, and the repurposing of an existing building as a

ticket vending machines were added at the transit center by early 2017 to support all-door boarding on the J Line.[10] Pre-payment of fares and all-door boarding reduces the time buses need to remain stopped at stations.[11]

Layout

Harbor Gateway Transit Center consists of one large

Harbor Gateway neighborhood of Los Angeles and cities of Carson, Gardena, and Torrance.[12]

The platform can be accessed by pedestrians from West 182nd Street. The parking lot can be accessed from West 182nd Street or Vermont Avenue near Artesia Boulevard.

The station also has a Sheriff's substation, a self-cleaning public toilet, and TAP card vending machines.

Paraje by Alison Saar at Harbor Gateway Transit Center

The Harbor Gateway Transit Center also houses a free-standing

Gardena Willows Wetlands Preserve.[15]

Services

J Line (formerly Silver Line) bus boarding

Harbor Gateway Transit Center is used by the

San Pedro.[16] The J Line is part of the Metro Busway system.[17]

J Line buses run 24 hours a day between El Monte Station, Downtown Los Angeles, and the Harbor Gateway Transit Center as route 910, with some trips continuing to San Pedro between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. and signed as Route 950. On weekdays, buses operate every four to eight minutes during peak hours, with longer headways of 10 minutes in the midday, 20 minutes during evenings, 40 minutes during nights, and every hour overnight. On weekends, buses arrive every 15 minutes most of the day, with longer headways of 20 minutes during evenings, 40 minutes during nights, and every hour overnight.[18]

Harbor Gateway Transit Center is also served by several local bus routes:

San Pedro, 246 that runs to San Pedro, 344 that runs to Rancho Palos Verdes; GTrans route 2 that runs between West Athens and Harbor City neighborhood of Los Angeles and route 4 to Lawndale; and Torrance Transit route 1 that runs between Torrance and South Los Angeles, 4X that runs between Torrance and Downtown Los Angeles, 6 that runs between Torrance and Compton, and 13 that runs between Redondo Beach and Compton.[17][16]

The station is also served by the

Dodger Stadium Express shuttle that operates on game days during baseball season and the Galaxy Express shuttle to Dignity Health Sports Park that operates on game days during soccer season.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b "Metro Parking Lots by Line". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  2. ^ "Secure Bike Parking on Metro" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
  3. ^ "J Line Charging Infrastructure - Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Comittee - Metro Board Meeting January 18 2024".
  4. ^ a b c d "Dual Hub High Occupancy Vehicle Transitway Report" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Scheduling and Operations Planning Staff. August 1993.
  5. ^ a b c Radcliffe, Jim (June 27, 1996). "Harbor Transitway opens, reducing congestion – Impact felt during evening commute". Daily Breeze. p. A3 – via NewsBank.
  6. ^ a b c Shuit, Douglas P. (November 20, 2000). "Harbor Transitway Has Everything but Riders". Los Angeles Times.
  7. ^ a b "Silver Line Enhancements". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  8. KCET SoCal Focus
    . Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Report on Harbor Gateway Transit Center Improvements, South Bay Service Council" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. March 8, 2013. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
  10. ^ "Universal Fare System Contract Modification". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. April 1, 2016. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  11. ^ "All-Door Boarding". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
  12. ^ "South L.A." Mapping L.A. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  13. ^ "Art Program Overview" (PDF). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2018.
  14. ^ "New Metro Silver Line art installed at Harbor Gateway Transit Center". January 28, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  15. ^ Zeller, Heidi (January 17, 2013). "New sculpture to be installed at Artesia Transit Center". The Source. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  16. ^ a b J Line map and timetable (PDF) (Map). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 13, 2020. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  17. ^ a b c Bus and Rail System map (PDF) (Map). Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. June 2018. Retrieved December 20, 2020.
  18. ^ "Metro J Line schedule". Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. December 10, 2023. Retrieved December 25, 2023.

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