Champion station
Champion station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in San Jose, California. Champion is served by the Green and Orange light rail lines. The station is decorated with a number of icons commonly used to depict routers, switches and other networking devices on network maps as a nod to Cisco Systems, whose San Jose campus surrounds the station.
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| Location | 175 Tasman Drive San Jose, California | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°24′33″N 121°57′08″W | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | VTA | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Connections |  ACE Shuttle: Brown, Purple | |||||||||||||||
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| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | March 24, 1997[1] | |||||||||||||||
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Location
The stations two side platforms are located in the median of Tasman Drive just east of Champion Court.
Station layout
The station features public artworks, including the sculpture EcoTech completed in 1997 by eco artist Deborah Kennedy for the city of San Jose.[2]
References
- Barnacle, Betty (March 24, 1997). "Light Rail Opens New Stop; First Station on Tasman Line to Serve North S.J. High-Tech Firms". San Jose Mercury News. Sec B:1.
- Sanders, Patricia B. (November 1999). "A conversation with Deborah Kennedy", in Artweek, San Jose, California, pp. 13–14.
External links
Media related to Champion (VTA) at Wikimedia Commons
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