Champion station
Champion is an at-grade light rail station on the Green Line and the Orange Line of the VTA light rail system. The station is located in the center median of Tasman Drive just east of its intersection with Champion Court, after which the station is named. This station is the furthest east on the section of track shared by the Green and Orange lines
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| Location | 175 Tasman Drive San Jose, California | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°24′33″N 121°57′08″W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | VTA | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | March 24, 1997[1] | |||||||||||||||
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Service
Station layout
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
| Northbound/ Westbound |
← Green Line toward Old Ironsides (Lick Mill) ← Orange Line toward Mountain View (Lick Mill) |
| Southbound/ Eastbound |
Green Line toward Winchester (Tasman) → Orange Line toward Alum Rock (Baypointe) → |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
Station artwork
The station features public artworks, including the sculpture EcoTech completed in 1997 by eco-artist Deborah Kennedy for the city of San Jose.[2] The station is decorated with a number of icons commonly used to depict routers, switches and other networking devices on network maps as a nod to Cisco Systems, whose San Jose campus surrounds the station.
References
- Barnacle, Betty (March 24, 1997). "Light Rail Opens New Stop; First Station on Tasman Line to Serve North S.J. High-Tech Firms". San Jose Mercury News. Sec B:1.
- Sanders, Patricia B. (November 1999). "A conversation with Deborah Kennedy", in Artweek, San Jose, California, pp. 13–14.
External links
Media related to Champion (VTA) at Wikimedia Commons
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