Health Sciences/Jubilee station is an Edmonton Light Rail Transit station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It serves both the Capital Line and the Metro Line. As of 2021, it is the southern terminus of the Metro Line. It is a ground-level station located at 114 Street at 83 Avenue on the University of Alberta's main campus.
History
Health Sciences station opened on January 3, 2006,[2] and was the second LRT station built on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River. It was also the first above ground station to be built since Clareview station which opened in 1981 and the first station built as part of the Capital Line's South expansion which added five new stations and 7.8 km of track to the system by 2010.
Station layout
The station has a 124-metre long centre loading platform that can accommodate two five-car LRT trains at the same time, with one train on each side of the platform. The platform is exactly nine metres wide.[3][4]
An enclosed pedway system that connects the station with the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, Kaye Edmonton Clinic and University of Alberta Hospital opened in June 2013.[5][6]
The station's platform features text etched into the glass walls and footprint impressions in the concrete as part of the public art piece "I Witness" by Holly Newman.[7]
The station has one termination track that allows Metro Line trains to terminate, the platform is off-limits to the public. The platform allows one 3 car Metro Line train to terminate/reverse.
Safety and security
- In April 2022, an elderly woman was assaulted and pushed onto the tracks.[8]
Around the station
- Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre
- Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
- Aberhart Centre
- Canadian Blood Services (Edmonton Clinic)
- Cross Cancer Institute
- Kaye Edmonton Clinic
- University of Alberta
- Clinical Sciences Building
- Corbett Hall
- Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA)
- Katz Group Centre
- Li Ka Shing Centre
- Lister Centre
- Medical Sciences
- Research Transition Facility
- Windsor Park
References
- ↑ "2019 LRT Passenger Count Report" (PDF). City of Edmonton. April 2020. Retrieved 5 Feb 2021.
- ↑ "Edmonton's LRT officially arrives at new station". Edmonton Journal. Canada.com. January 3, 2006. Archived from the original on February 14, 2009. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
- ↑ City of Edmonton (July 2011). "LRT Design Guidelines 2011" (PDF). City of Edmonton. p. 700. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ↑ "South LRT - Making Tracks Summer 2010" (PDF). City of Edmonton. July 20, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-20. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ↑ Haines, Lucy (January 5, 2012). "Health Sciences pedway underway". Metro Edmonton. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ↑ "Work begins on Health Sciences LRT pedway". 630ched.com. January 4, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ↑ "I Witness". City of Edmonton Public Art Collection. Edmonton Arts Council. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
- ↑ "Violent assault at LRT station: man pushed elderly woman onto tracks". Retrieved 2022-04-28.
