Alvarado Transportation Center

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Station statistics

Address

100 1st Street SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

Lines

Amtrak:

Southwest Chief

NMRX:

Rail Runner Express

Other service

Greyhound Lines, ABQRide

Other information

Opened

2002

Code

ABQ (Amtrak)

Traffic

Passengers (2006)

62,240

0.5% (Amtrak)

Services

Previous station	Amtrak	Next station
Gallup toward Los Angeles	Southwest Chief	Lamy toward Chicago
Previous station	NMRX	Next station
Rio Bravo/Airport toward Belen	Rail Runner Express	Los Ranchos/Journal Center toward Sandoval County/US 550

The Alvarado Transportation Center (ATC) is a multimodal transit hub located at 100 1st Street SW in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The complex was built as a replacement for the old Albuquerque train station, which had burned in 1993. The first phase of the project was completed in 2002 to serve Albuquerque's regional transit system, ABQRide. The second phase, completed in 2006, added facilities for Amtrak, Greyhound Lines, and the New Mexico Rail Runner commuter rail line.

The ATC is on the same site as the old train station and the Alvarado Hotel, a railroad hotel that dated back to the 1900s that was demolished in 1970. The Mission Revival-style ATC was designed to be reminiscent of the old buildings, with many architectural elements borrowed from the Alvarado. The ATC also features a clock tower, located on the northwest corner of the building.

1 Amtrak service
2 New Mexico Rail Runner service
3 Intercity Bus Service
4 ABQ Ride
5 External links

[edit] Amtrak service

The Amtrak component of the center is located on the southern part of the complex, next to the Greyhound depot. Albuquerque is a stop on Amtrak's daily Southwest Chief line. An Amtrak Thruway Bus connects to El Paso, Texas.

[edit] New Mexico Rail Runner service

The Rail Runner platform

The Rail Runner station went into service on July 14, 2006 as one of the three original stations on the line, along with Los Ranchos/Journal Center and Sandoval County/US 550. Each of the Rail Runner stations contains an icon to express each community's identity. The icon representing this station is the ATC itself.

[edit] Intercity Bus Service

The ATC has a Greyhound depot, and the New Mexico Park and Ride connects to Santa Fe and Los Alamos.

[edit] ABQ Ride

The ATC serves most of the city's east-west ABQRide bus routes as well as the Rapid Ride BRT route. The complex also has offices for the City of Albuquerque Transit Department. In addition, the clock tower of the ATC serves as the logo for ABQ Ride.