Canyon Meadows station

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Canyon Meadows
CTrain station
Canyon Meadows LRT Station.jpg
Location416 Cantrell Drive SW
Coordinates50°56′10″N 114°04′11.4″W / 50.93611°N 114.069833°W / 50.93611; -114.069833Coordinates: 50°56′10″N 114°04′11.4″W / 50.93611°N 114.069833°W / 50.93611; -114.069833
Owned byCalgary Transit
PlatformsCenter-loading platform
Connections28 Deer Run
44 Deer Ridge
83 Parkland
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Parking260 spaces
Disabled accessYes
History
Opened2001
Rebuilt2011 (platform extension)
Services
Preceding station CTrain Following station
Anderson
toward Tuscany
Red Line Fish Creek–Lacombe

Canyon Meadows station is a CTrain light rail station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It serves the South Line (Route 201) and was one of the two new stations that opened on October 9, 2001, as part of the South LRT Extension Phase I. It is located on the exclusive LRT right of way (adjacent to the CPR ROW) 12.6 km South of the City Hall Interlocking, beside MacLeod Trail, to the north of Canyon Meadows Drive.

This station is designed to serve the Canyon Meadows neighbourhood and it has a pedestrian bridge connecting to a large park-and-ride facility on the east side of Macleod Trail. The bridge also connects the station to the neighbourhood of Lake Bonavista. Stairs and escalators, as well as an elevator provide access down to the center-loading platform. This is the only station on the South line without grade-level access due to space constraints. 260 parking spaces are located at the station in what was the first ever park-and-ride to be a parkade (69 Street Station on the Blue Line (2012) has the second park-and-ride parkade).

In 2005, the station registered and average transit of 5,800 boardings per weekday.[1]

The station was originally constructed with a 3-car length platform with room to easily expand to four cars when needed in the future. Extension of the platform to accommodate 4-train cars started in Summer 2011 and was completed in December 2011.

References[]

  1. ^ Calgary Transit (2005). "LRT Station Ridership". Archived from the original on June 8, 2007. Retrieved August 24, 2007.


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