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
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
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	March 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
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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

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

• Fully wheelchair-accessible (level boarding)
• Pay Phone

Connecting Transit

• ACE Shuttle: Brown, Purple

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.

External links

• Media related to Champion (VTA) at Wikimedia Commons