Palms (LA Metro Expo Line)

Palms is an Expo line station located on an elevated concrete-sided, embankment filled structure, just south of the Santa Monica Freeway/I-10 Freeway. The station has a single island platform that begins at the western end of the underpass of National Blvd that goes under the Expo Line and then the I-10 freeway, and runs west. The platform has the usual aqua-blue Expo line framework for the platform canopy and shade structure.

The station has a single entrance at the platform's eastern end. A staircase followed by two elevators (providing accessible redundancy if one elevator goes out of service) in glass shafts with blue accents leads down to a small fare control area tucked under the tracks and platform. A single bank of turnstiles leads out to the North sidewalk of National Blvd, just before the intersection of National Blvd, Palm Avenue, and Exposition Blvd. This looks like a standard 4-way intersection, but street names make it complicated. National Blvd turns right just beyond the fare control area and heads north under the tracks. Palm Blvd ends at this intersection from the south. A section of Exposition Blvd ends coming in from the east.

Artwork: Artist Educators by Shizu Saldamando are ten panels along the station platform,
Photos 1-20: December 22, 2019

Looking across National Blvd at the station entrance tucked in the concrete embankment

Looking across to the portion of the platform above National Blvd, Ivy is growing up to cover the concrete sides of the railway embankment nicely

Two elevators, provide accessibility redundancy up to the station platform

The small fare control area with a bank of turnstiles on one side

Getting on one of the two elevators to head up to the platform

The elevator walls have dots allowing a bit of a view down the tracks that cross National Blvd on two separate bridges

The upper landing of the elevator

Artist Educators, a portion of the second elevator shaft blocks this artwork

Artist Educators

Artist Educators

Artist Educators and the end of the platform with the walkway to the two elevators off the platform

A Palms sign on the edge of the platform

Looking across the one staircase up to the platform

A Westbound train to Santa Monica approaches

Trees line the north side of the tracks between the station and the Santa Monica Freeway