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.

Champion
Champion Station platform, 2012
Location175 Tasman Drive
San Jose, California
Coordinates37°24′33″N 121°57′08″W
Owned byVTA
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections ACE Shuttle: Brown, Purple
Construction
Disabled accessYes
History
OpenedMarch 24, 1997[1]
Services
Preceding station VTA Light Rail Following station
Lick Mill
toward Mountain View
 Orange Line Baypointe
toward Alum Rock
Lick Mill
toward Old Ironsides
 Green Line Tasman
toward Winchester
Location
Champion
Location in San Jose
Champion
Location in California
Champion
Location in United States

Location

The stations two side platforms are located in the median of Tasman Drive just east of Champion Court.

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

The station features public artworks, including the sculpture EcoTech completed in 1997 by eco artist Deborah Kennedy for the city of San Jose.[2]

Station Amenities

Connecting Transit
gollark: *continues not using either of those*
gollark: We need to synergize our comparative advantage with AI and blockchain to leverage our meme successes.
gollark: Because ipv4 is mostly working ish for now.
gollark: Wow, that's useful, should probably have read that more carefully.
gollark: There is no gaming channel.

References
  1. 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.
  2. Sanders, Patricia B. (November 1999). "A conversation with Deborah Kennedy", in Artweek, San Jose, California, pp. 13–14.


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