King-Victoria Transit Hub

Kitchener Central Station
Transit Hub site under construction in 2016
Owned by	Region of Waterloo
Platforms	1 side platform 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Bus stands	TBD
Bus operators	Grand River Transit GO Transit Greyhound Canada Coach Canada
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	27
History
Opened	LRT: 2018 Other uses: TBD
Services
Preceding station   Via Rail   Following station Stratford toward Sarnia Sarnia–Toronto Guelph toward Toronto GO Transit Terminus Kitchener Guelph toward Union Station Grand River Transit Grand River Hospital toward Conestoga Ion Kitchener City Hall One-way operation Victoria Park toward Fairway

The King–Victoria Transit Hub, tentatively named Central Station, is a planned intermodal transportation terminal in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It will serve the Ion light rail line, Via Rail and GO Transit trains, Grand River Transit local buses, as well as Greyhound, Coach Canada and GO Transit intercity buses.

The station will replace the current Kitchener railway station and partially replace the Charles Street Terminal. Intercity bus services which currently depart from Charles Street will be relocated to the new Central terminal; local GRT buses will continue to use Charles Street as a hub until routes can be sufficiently decentralized to make that function redundant.

The light rail (LRT) station, named Central Station–Innovation District, will open along with the start of LRT service in 2018, but as of 2016 there is no timeline for the construction of the remainder of the transit components. As a result, the intermodal facility could not open until 2022 at the earliest.

The LRT platforms will be located on either side of King Street in Kitchener, on the north side of Victoria Street. North of the station, the LRT tracks will become adjacent through the Moore/Breithaupt intersection and proceed within the median of King beyond, towards Waterloo. South of the station, the tracks split: southbound, they take Victoria to reach Charles Street, which they follow alongside; northbound, they continue along King to Francis Street, which connects them to Duke Street, which they follow alongside.

Also in the vicinity are the University of Waterloo's Health Sciences campus (including their School of Pharmacy); the 'One Victoria' condominium development; and the 'Kaufman Lofts' condominium (occupying the former Kaufman Footwear factory).