Douglas Station – Metro Green Line

Hate it!!! The parking is a little distance away from the train station. There’s a much close parking spot but it belongs to the building

I like this station because of where it’s located. It’s tucked into a nook in El Segundo/​Manhattan Beach and there is never a bunch of riff raff hanging around. There isn’t much parking if you plan on parking and riding but there is a nice sized parking lot at the Redondo Beach station which isn’t very far from this one.

On our way to LA for the Laker game with Marisa L, here’s how we did…
This stop is really quick. They open the doors and then close them within 30 seconds. Not to many people on the train on a tuesday around 2:00pm. It looked like there was interesting seating at this station. I guess when you’re in El Segundo you get better seating than some of the ghetto train stations. Read some of my other reviews for the Super-​Ghet, try to avoid trains. Overall a decent stop, but only spent 30 seconds here so not much input.
Will I again? No! I will never take the Green Line to the Blue Line, ever ever again

it looks like a space station, and they have the greenline… is there anything else i can probably say about this place???

Close to where I need to go or go from and it’s clean.
Strange people? Sometimes.
But at least it’s not crowded and it’s also towards the end of the line so by the time I get ON the train, the seat selection is plentiful!

The Douglas Station is where I exit the Metro Green Line to go to work. This station is more arty than the only other station I can compare it to that I’ve been which is the Norwalk station. There are artists renditions of spacecraft attached to the outside which catch your eye as you approach from the street. You’ll also find words of wisdom pressed into the risers of the cement stairs as you walk up to the platform — take the escalator and you’ll miss them.
The two downsides to this station are 1) there is not much parking here and 2) the only connection you can make here is to the 125 Metro bus line.

The big ding against this station is the complete lack of park-​and-​ride spaces. But there is easy access to several retail businesses and hotels here. It’s set back a few hundred yards from Rosecrans, which is where most of the retail stuff is… probably the best stop on the Green Line if shopping or dining is your goal.

The Douglas Street Station ranks as one of my favorite Green Line Stations. In large part because it’s one of the few Green Line stations that doesn’t leave you off on a noisy freeway and does drop you off near employment centers, movie theaters, bars, restaurants, and stores which include REI, Barnes & Noble, and Helen’s BIke Shop.
It’s also located a about a 1 ½ miles from the Manhattan Beach Mall.
There are a good number of bike lockers there available for rent-​really cheap from
as well as bike racks.
If you are flying into LAX on business from out of town you could easily take the free G bus from LAX to Aviation Station and then go down three stops on the green line to Douglas Station and stay at the marriot hotel-​100 yards from the station. Here you can easily and safely walk around at night with things to do that are walking distance. Manhattan beach is a short cab or bus ride (Metro Line 125)
I subtracted a star because it only has 1 bus line coming to it –Line 125. If it were more accessible via bus lines that came more often I’d give it 5 stars.