Charlotte Transportation Center
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Charlotte Transportation Center
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| LYNX light rail station | |||||||||||||||||||||
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A southbound train prepares to depart
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| Location | 310 East Trade Street Charlotte, NC 28202 |
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| Coordinates | 35°13′30″N 80°50′29″W / 35.22500°N 80.84139°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Charlotte Area Transit Systems | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Racks available | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | December 11, 1995 (bus) November 24, 2007 (light rail) |
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The Charlotte Transportation Center, also known as Arena or CTC/Arena, is an intermodal transit station in Charlotte, North Carolina. Located in Uptown Charlotte, it serves the LYNX Blue Line and is a central hub for Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) buses. The station officially opened for service on Saturday, November 24, 2007, and as part of its opening celebration fares were not collected. Regular service with fare collection commenced on Monday, November 26, 2007.
The station is located at East Trade Street between Brevard Street and College Street. It has side platforms, which sit on either side of the tracks. Additionally, the station has an entrance from the platform into the neighboring Charlotte Transportation Center.
The station is unique to the LYNX system in that the entire platform is covered by a roof made of synthetic materials and supported by curved steel. The present design was originally scrapped due to high costs, but was later brought back and constructed after multiple Uptown businesses donated money to make up the difference in construction costs.
As part of the CATS Art in Transit program, the CTC/Arena features several pieces intended to provide a better overall aesthetic for the station. The works include bas-reliefs entitled Gingko by Alice Adams, drinking fountain basins designed to look like dogwoods, the North Carolina state flower, by Nancy Blum, the Trade Street bridge supports entitled Bobbins pays hommage to Charlotte's textile industry was created by Andrew Leicester, Bobbins and track fencing featuring cottonwood leaves by Shaun Cassidy.
Celebrating its grand opening on December 11, 1995, through a partnership with then-NationsBank, the CTC is served by most local and express CATS routes that lead from outlying areas destined for Uptown. Its opening moved the central transfer point for all CATS buses from The Square two blocks to the west in an effort to improve traffic congestion along Tryon Street and provide transit riders a more efficient centralized transfer point. Additionally, a Greyhound bus station is located not far from here, as well as the downtown Gold Rush trolley service. The Amtrak station is approximately 1.5 miles northeast of the LYNX line.
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