First Avenue station (PAAC)

First Avenue
Pittsburgh Light Rail station
Location	First Avenue and Ross Street Pittsburgh, PA
Coordinates	40°26′15″N 79°59′48″W / 40.4375°N 79.9966°W / 40.4375; -79.9966Coordinates: 40°26′15″N 79°59′48″W / 40.4375°N 79.9966°W / 40.4375; -79.9966
Owned by	Port Authority
Line(s)	Blue Line Library   Blue Line South Hills Village via Overbrook   Red Line Castle Shannon   Red Line South Hills Village via Beechview
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	elevated
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	November 16, 2001
Services
Preceding station   The "T"   Following station Steel Plaza toward Allegheny Blue Line Library Station Square toward Library Blue Line South Hills Village via Overbrook Station Square toward South Hills Village Red Line South Hills Village via Beechview Red Line Castle Shannon Station Square toward Overbrook Junction   Former services   Steel Plaza toward Wood Street Brown Line William toward South Hills Junction

First Avenue is a station on the Port Authority of Allegheny County's Pittsburgh Light Rail network. The station is part of the light rail's Downtown Pittsburgh free zone, and passengers embarking here may travel for free to any of the other stations within the zone (Steel Plaza and Wood Street).

The station was a new addition to the light rail system in 2001, located in the PNC Firstside Complex, just before the tracks dip into the subway tunnel. It was opened on November 16, 2001 to provide better access to the southern quarter of downtown, which includes city and state government offices, major office buildings such as Oxford Centre and the Grant Building, downtown educational facilities such as Point Park University, Duquesne University and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and the many smaller office structures that mark this area of the Golden Triangle. It cost $6.7 million to construct.

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