Azusa Downtown has two side platforms on the two track Gold Line that are located just to the north of an existing freight track, making the Eastbound platform more like an island platform. Just south of the station is the historic 1888 Santa Fe Azusa depot on the San Gabriel Line. This single story depot was last used by the BNSF railroad in 1989 and was restored by Metro but doesn't have a new use yet.
The modern station's two side platforms have ramps up to them as their only entrances from the grade-crossing of Azusa Avenue at the western end of each platform. These ramps lead up to a covered TVM area before the actual platforms begin. Waiting passengers have two different canopy structures that cover more than three-quarters of each platform.
There are no further entrances to each platform, although the eastbound end of the Los Angeles-bound platform has an emergency exit that would provide more direct access to the Aszusa Intermodal Center with 3 connecting Foothill Transit bus routes, and the station's well decorated 521 space parking garage that are only for monthly parking permit holders (costing $59 per month).
Artwork: Passage Through Memory by Jose Antonio Aguirre, celebrates Azusa’s earliest inhabitants. The ramps up to each platform have Spanish Colonial style arches above them, with large decorative Azusa lettering, glass mosaics that take inspiration from native Gabrielino basket weaving line the bottoms of each canopy column.
Photos 1-17: December 23, 2019
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