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The transit center, originally named the Artesia Transit Center, was built as the southern terminus of the Harbor Transitway, a 10.3-mile (16.6 km) shared-use express bus corridor and high-occupancy vehicle lanes (later converted to high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes) running in the median of Interstate 110 (Harbor Freeway) north to Downtown Los Angeles.
On June 27, 2021, the western half of the route from Artesia A Line Station to Redondo Beach was taken over by Torrance Transit as their new Line 13. On its final year, Line 130 remained in service between Artesia Station and Los Cerritos Center as LA Metro.
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Artesia (Spanish for "artesian aquifer") is a city in southeast Los Angeles County, California. Artesia was incorporated on May 29, 1959, and is one of Los Angeles County's Gateway Cities. The city has a 2010 census population of 16,522. Artesia is surrounded on the west, south, and east sides by Cerritos, with Norwalk to the north.
Manuel Nieto, a Spanish soldier, received a Spanish land grant (Rancho Los Nietos) in 1784 that included Norwalk. After the Mexican–American War in 1848, the Rancho and mining days ended. Portions of the land were subdivided and made available for sale when California was admitted into the union of the United States.
Artesia station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located alongside the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway), at its intersection with Artesia Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the city of Compton, California.
The road was laid out as state highway as early as 1882, when a newspaper man advised "I was requested by several parties in Artesia to state that the road recently declared a public highway from Artesia to Anaheim and Westminister has no bridge across Coyote Creek, and the two fords are through private property, the approaches to which are very steep, and after heavy rains, almost impassable ...