Wardlow (LACMTA Station)
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Wardlow 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 on the Blue Line 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...

 near Wardlow Road in the 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...

 neighborhood 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...

. Wardlow 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 25 parking spaces and 10 bike lockers.

Willow
Willow (LACMTA Station)
Willow is a station on the Los Angeles County Metro 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...

 and Wardlow stations 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...

. The Blue Line maintenance and storage yard is located between the Wardlow and Del Amo
Del Amo (LACMTA Station)
Del Amo is a station on the Los Angeles County Metro Blue Line. It has an elevated platform over Del Amo Boulevard where it intersects with Santa Fe Avenue, and is on the Blue Line right-of-way in the Los Angeles County community of Rancho Dominguez .Del Amo is the only elevated blue line station...

 stations. http://www.metro.net/doing_business/filming_metro/rail_facilities.htm

The station entrance is at 3420 N Pacific Pl, Long Beach, CA 90806. The exit from the nearby 405 freeway
Interstate 405 (California)
Interstate 405 is a major north–south Interstate Highway in Southern California. It is a bypass of Interstate 5, running along the western areas of the Greater Los Angeles Area from Irvine in the south to near San Fernando in the north...

 is Wardlow. There are entrances to both the 405 and 710 freeways from Wardlow.

Metro Rail service

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