Health Sciences/Jubilee LRT Station

Health Sciences/Jubilee
Edmonton LRT station
Coordinates 53°31′13″N 113°31′33″W / 53.52028°N 113.52583°W / 53.52028; -113.52583Coordinates: 53°31′13″N 113°31′33″W / 53.52028°N 113.52583°W / 53.52028; -113.52583
Owned by City of Edmonton
Platforms Centre
Tracks 2
Construction
Structure type Surface
Parking No
Bicycle facilities Yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Website Health Sciences/Jubilee LRT Station
History
Opened 2006
Traffic
Passengers (2013)
(typical weekday)		 7,380 board
6,720 alight
14,100 Total[1]
Services
Preceding station   Edmonton Transit System   Following station
toward Clareview
Capital Line
toward Century Park
toward NAIT
Metro LineTerminus

Health Sciences/Jubilee Station is an LRT station on the Capital Line and south terminus of the Metro Line in Edmonton, Alberta. It is a ground-level station located at 114 Street at 83 Avenue on the University of Alberta's main campus.

History

Health Sciences Station opened on January 3, 2006,[2] and was the second LRT station built on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River. It was also the first above ground station to be built since Clareview Station which opened in 1981 and the first station built as part of the Capital Line's South expansion which added five new stations and 7.8 km of track to the system by 2010.

Station layout

The station has a 124-metre long centre loading platform that can accommodate two five-car LRT trains at the same time, with one train on each side of the platform. The platform is exactly nine metres wide.[3][4]

An enclosed pedway system that connects the station with the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, Kaye Edmonton Clinic and University of Alberta Hospital opened in June 2013.[5][6]

The station's platform features text etched into the glass walls and footprint impressions in the concrete as part of the public art piece "I Witness" by Holly Newman.[7]

Around the station

References

  1. ↑ "2013 LRT Passenger Count Report" (PDF). Edmonton Transit System. January 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Edmonton's LRT officially arrives at new station". Edmonton Journal. Canada.com. January 3, 2006. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
  3. ↑ City of Edmonton (July 2011). "LRT Design Guidelines 2011" (PDF). City of Edmonton. p. 700. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
  4. ↑ "South LRT - Making Tracks Summer 2010" (PDF). City of Edmonton. July 20, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ Haines, Lucy (January 5, 2012). "Health Sciences pedway underway". Metro Edmonton. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Work begins on Health Sciences LRT pedway". 630ched.com. January 4, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
  7. ↑ "I Witness". City of Edmonton Public Art Collection. Edmonton Arts Council. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
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