Heritage station (Calgary)
Heritage station is a CTrain light rail station in Haysboro, Calgary, Alberta as part of the original South Line (Route 201) which opened on May 25, 1981.
Heritage | |||||||||||
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CTrain station | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | 12 Haddon Road SW | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 50°58′43″N 114°04′27″W | ||||||||||
Owned by | Calgary Transit | ||||||||||
Platforms | Center-loading platform | ||||||||||
Connections | 3 Sandstone 20 Northmount 37 Canyon Meadows 39 Acadia 79 Acadia/Oakridge 80 Oakridge/Acadia 81 Chinook/Canyon Meadows 410 Glenmore Business Park 502 Heritage Park (seasonal) 827 Bishop Carroll/Heritage/Anderson (School) 880 St Matthew Heritage (School) MT Max Teal Douglas Glen/Westbrook | ||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
Parking | 557 spaces | ||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1981 | ||||||||||
Rebuilt | 2012 | ||||||||||
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The station, with a large 557 space park-and-ride lot, is located on the exclusive LRT right of way (adjacent to CPR ROW, 7.9 km South of the City Hall Interlocking, west of Macleod Trail.
The station consists of a center-loading platform with Mezzanine access on the North end and an at grade access at the South end.
As part of Calgary Transit's plans to operate four-car trains by the end of 2014, all three-car stations will be extended. Construction at Heritage Station to extend the platform to the South started on July 16, 2012, and the new extended platform and ramp access opened on December 10, 2012.
South of the station, in "Haysboro Storage Facility" trains are stored.
In 2005, the station registered an average transit of 13,600 boardings per weekday.[1]
References
- Calgary Transit (2005). "LRT Station Ridership". Archived from the original on 2007-06-08. Retrieved 2007-08-24.