Champion station

Champion station is an at-grade light rail station on the Green Line and the Orange Line of the VTA light rail system. The station is located in the center median of Tasman Drive just east of its intersection with Champion Court, after which the station is named. This station is the furthest east on the section of track shared by the Green and Orange lines.

Champion
Green Line (VTA) Orange Line (VTA)
Champion station platform in 2012
General information
Location175 Tasman Drive
San Jose, California
Coordinates37°24′33″N 121°57′08″W
Owned bySanta Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus transport ACE Shuttle: Brown, Purple[1]
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedMarch 24, 1997 (1997-03-24)
Services
Preceding station VTA Light Rail Following station
Lick Mill
toward Old Ironsides
 Green Line Tasman
toward Winchester
Lick Mill
toward Mountain View
 Orange Line Baypointe
toward Alum Rock
Location

Champion was built as part of the Tasman West extension project as an infill station on the original Guadeloupe Corridor. The station opened on March 24, 1997, a couple of years before the rest of the Tasman West stations.[2]

Service

Station layout
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound/
Westbound		 ← Green Line toward Old Ironsides (Lick Mill)
← Orange Line toward Mountain View (Lick Mill)
Southbound/
Eastbound		 → Green Line toward Winchester (Tasman) →
→ Orange Line toward Alum Rock (Baypointe) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

Station artwork

The station features public artworks, including the sculpture EcoTech completed in 1997 by eco-artist Deborah Kennedy for the city of San Jose.[3] 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.

References
  1. "ACE Shuttles" (PDF). Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. July 2, 2018. Retrieved June 29, 2022.
  2. 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. p. B1. Retrieved October 31, 2022 – via NewsBank.
  3. Sanders, Patricia B. (November 1999). "A conversation with Deborah Kennedy", in Artweek, San Jose, California, pp. 13–14.


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