Art Installed at Duarte Gold Line Station Friday
The Duarte Station is part of the Foothill Gold
Line light rail project from Pasadena to Azusa. The
station is located along Duarte Road, just west of
Highland Avenue and within a short walk to the City
of Hope National Medical Center (COH). With a
center platform and tracks on both sides, access to
the station will be available from the east and west
sides of the platform. A new traffic signal has been
installed at the entrance to COH and a new sidewalk
on the north side of Duarte Road will be installed
soon to allow easy walking to and from the station.
A 125-space parking lot will be located north of the
station. Bicycle parking and lockers are also planned.
Andrea Myklebust and Stanton Gray Sears are two artists who
began working collaboratively in 1993, and have extensive experience in transit/infrastructure
projects and site-responsive artwork. Based in Wisconsin, this artist team has an impressive
array of public art projects around the country. Some of the highlights of their collaborative
work include artwork for light-rail stations on the Minneapolis-St. Paul Central Corridor Line;
architecturally-integrated artwork for the Microbial Sciences building at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison; work on the Minnesota World War II Memorial; and design and
creation of a granite entry paving for the historic Fox Theatre in Stockton, CA.
For more information on previous or current projects by this artist team visit:
www.myklebustsears.com
The Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority is an independent transportation planning and construction agency created in 1999 by the California State Legislature to oversee the Foothill Gold Line light rail line project from Union Station to the
Los Angeles County Line, along the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley. The Construction Authority completed the 13.9-mile Los Angeles to Pasadena segment in 2003, on time and under budget, and immediately began planning work for the 24-mile Foothill Gold Line. The Foothill Gold Line is a nearly $2 billion extension that will connect Pasadena to Montclair in two construction
segments. The first segment, Pasadena to Azusa, is fully funded by Los Angeles County’s Measure R and is on time and on budget to be turned over to Metro in late September 2015 for pre-revenue service. Metro will determine when the line opens for passenger service. The 11.5-mile Pasadena to Azusa segment includes future stations in the cities of Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale and Azusa.
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Three design-build contracts, totaling more than $500 million, is being overseen by the Construction Authority to complete the
Pasadena to Azusa segment, including a $486 million contract awarded in July 2011 to Foothill Transit Constructors (FTC). FTC is a joint venture of Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. and Parsons Transportation Group. FTC is responsible for the design and construction of the 11.5-mile project, including the stations, track, crossings, Operations Campus, communications system, and much more. Kiewit and Parsons have partnered on the Foothill Gold Line project, as they have done successfully for dozens of projects in the past –including the design and construction of the first phase of the Metro Gold Line from Los Angeles to Pasadena. FTC spent most of
2012 finalizing design for the project and began significant construction late 2012. The project will be completed in September 2015.
