Olympic Plaza/City Hall (C-Train)

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Olympic Plaza/City Hall Station
218C - 7 Avenue SE
323C - 7 Avenue SE
Location 51°02′47″N 114°03′29″W / 51.04639, -114.05806
Opened 1981
District Dowtown, Downtown East Village, Chinatown
Line 201
202
Next station east to Bridgeland/Memorial

west to 1 Street Southwest/Centre Street
south to Victoria Park/Stampede
Daily Boardings City Hall 9,700 (2005)
Olympic Plaza 11,800 (2005)[1]
No. of Elevators 0
Platforms Side platforms
System
Operator		 Calgary C-Train
Calgary Transit

Olympic Plaza and City Hall are stops in downtown Calgary on the city's C-Train light rail system. The Olympic Plaza stop (formerly named 1 Street Southeast until 1988, when it got its new name from the site of the awards ceremony for the 1988 Winter Olympics directly across from the station) is only used by westbound trains and the City Hall stop is used by eastbound trains. Platforms for the stations are located on the sides of 7th Avenue South, near the intersection with Macleod Trail.

Notable buildings located near the station include City Hall, Calgary Police Headquarters, the provincial court, the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, the main branch of the Calgary Public Library, and Olympic Plaza .

The Olympic Plaza platform is one of three downtown platforms slated for decommissioning as part of Calgary Transit's Seventh Avenue refurbishment. A new platform for northwest-bound Line 201 and westbound Line 202 is expected to be built immediately across from the existing City Hall platform, concurrently with that platform's reconstruction, by 2012.[2]

The station registered and average of 9,700 and 11,800 weekday boardings in 2005 (for City Hall and Olympic Plaza respectively).[1]

A train departing the Olympic Plaza platform

City hall platform. The sandstone building behind it is City Hall. The glass building behind that is the Municipal Building.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Calgary Transit (2005). LRT Station Ridership. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
  2. ^ City of Calgary. 7 Avenue Refurbishment. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
Next station west:
1 Street Southwest/Centre Street		 C-Train Route 201 Next station east:
Victoria Park/Stampede
Next station west:
1 Street Southwest/Centre Street		 C-Train Route 202 Next station east:
3 Street Southeast
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