Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center at LaVilla
Convention Center | |||||||||||
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| Jacksonville Skyway station | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | 1101 W. Bay Street Jacksonville, Florida | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°19′45″N 81°40′20″W / 30.329047°N 81.672206°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Jacksonville Transportation Authority | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Lua error: expandTemplate: template "JTA color" does not exist. | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1989 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1997 | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Terminal | ||||||||||
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Convention Center station is a Jacksonville Skyway monorail station in Jacksonville, Florida. It is located on Bay Street just west of Jefferson Street in the LaVilla neighborhood of Downtown Jacksonville. It is adjacent to the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center.
History
The station was one of the three original Jacksonville Skyway stops that opened with the initial 0.7-mile (1.1 km) Phase I-A segment in June 1989. It was originally called "Terminal Station" in reference to the Jacksonville Terminal, a former train station that was converted into the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center in 1986. Built to provide public transit access to the Convention Center, it was (and remains) the western terminus of line, which ran east to Jefferson station and Central station. All three stations were renovated in 1997, when the Skyway transitioned from Matra to Bombardier Transportation technology.[1][2]
The station has an adjacent park and ride lot.[3] The City of Jacksonville had long planned to incorporate the site into an intermodal transit station, with the return of rail service to the Jacksonville Terminal.[1] In May 2017, JTA announced that the station would be closed about two months later for the construction of Jacksonville Intermodal Station.[4]
References
- ^ a b Bell, Jon (December 22, 2014). "Jacksonville, Florida: The Skyway". www.jtbell.net. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
- ^ Schneider, Jerry B. (May 31, 2013). "Jacksonville's Automated Skyway Express Downtown Peoplemover". faculty.washington.edu. University of Washington. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
- ^ "Skyway" (PDF). www.jtafla.com. Jacksonville Transportation Authority. June 6, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
- ^ Kitchen, Sebastian (May 13, 2017). "JTA to shut down 2 Skyway stations for construction". The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved May 15, 2017.