Willow is a station on the Los Angeles County Metro

Los Angeles County Metro Rail

Metro Rail is the rapid transit rail system consisting of five separate lines serving 70 stations in the Los Angeles County, California area. The new Expo line is due to enter service in early 2012. It connects with the Metro liner bus rapid transit system and also with the Metrolink commuter...

 Blue Line. It has an island platform, and is adjacent to Long Beach Boulevard near the intersection of Willow Street in the city of Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

. At this point, going Northbound, the Blue Line route leaves Long Beach Boulevard and enters its own right-of-way

Right-of-way (railroad)

A right-of-way is a strip of land that is granted, through an easement or other mechanism, for transportation purposes, such as for a trail, driveway, rail line or highway. A right-of-way is reserved for the purposes of maintenance or expansion of existing services with the right-of-way...

 (part of Pacific Electric Railway

Pacific Electric Railway

The Pacific Electric Railway , also known as the Red Car system, was a mass transit system in Southern California using streetcars, light rail, and buses...

's Red Car right-of-way) allowing the trains to reach higher speeds between stops. Willow is a park and ride

Park and ride

Park and ride facilities are car parks with connections to public transport that allow commuters and other people wishing to travel into city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system , or carpool for the rest of their trip...

 station with 920 parking spaces (including a multi-story parking facility) and 10 bike lockers.

Willow and Wardlow

Wardlow (LACMTA Station)

Wardlow is a station on the Los Angeles County Metro Blue Line. It has an island platform, and is on the Blue Line right-of-way near Wardlow Road in the Wrigley neighborhood of Long Beach, California. Wardlow is a park and ride station with 25 parking spaces and 10 bike lockers.Willow and Wardlow...

 stations, both in Wrigley

Wrigley Neighborhood, Long Beach, California

Wrigley is a district in Long Beach, California, U.S., which derives its name from William Wrigley Jr., the owner and founder of the famed Wrigley Spearmint Gum Empire in Chicago. It was one of the first communities established in Long Beach. The original subdivision pattern was established in 1905...

, are the two Blue Line stations closest to the Long Beach Municipal Airport

Long Beach Municipal Airport

Long Beach Airport , also known as Daugherty Field, is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles northeast of the central business district of the City of Long Beach, in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It serves Los Angeles and Orange Counties...

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Metro Rail service

Blue Line service hours are approximately from 5:00 AM until 12:45 AM daily.

Bus connections

• Metro Local
  Metro Local
  Metro Local is a bus system in Los Angeles County operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority . This retronym designation was placed to differentiate it from the Metro Rapid service...
  
  : 60 (Late Night and Early Morning only)
• Long Beach Transit
  Long Beach Transit
  Long Beach Transit is a municipal transit company providing fixed and flexible bus transit services in Long Beach, California, United States, other communities in South and Southeast Los Angeles County and Northwestern Orange County. Long Beach Transit also operates the Passport shuttle, Aquabus,...
  
  : 1, 51, 52, 101, 102, 103

Nearby sights and attractions

• Wrigley Marketplace shopping center
• Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
  Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
  Long Beach Memorial Medical Center is a hospital in Long Beach, California.It was established as Seaside Hospital in 1907. Incorporated as Seaside Memorial Hospital on June 23, 1937...
  
  
• Pacific Hospital of Long Beach
• Veterans Memorial Park
• Sunnyside Cemetery & Long Beach Cemetery: these adjacent cemeteries on Willow St. date from before 1900.