| 7th Street LYNX light rail station |
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| Address | 260 East Seventh Street Charlotte, NC 28202 |
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| Structure | At-grade | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Racks available | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 24 November 2007 | |||||||||||||||
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| Owned by | Charlotte Area Transit System | |||||||||||||||
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The 7th Street station is a light rail station for both the LYNX Blue Line and the historic Charlotte Trolley in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A.. It is the northern terminus of the Blue Line. The station officially opened for service on Saturday, November 24, 2007, and as part of its opening celebration fares were not collected.[2] Regular service with fare collection commenced on Monday, November 26, 2007.[2]
In February 2002, CATS announced that the northern terminus of the Blue Line was going to be relocated from 9th Street to its present location along 7th Street[3] The station is located between East 6th Street and East 7th Street just west of North Brevard Street. It has side platforms, which sit on either side of the tracks.[1] This will also mark where the eventual Northeast Line in route to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte will connect with the Blue Line.
As part of the CATS Art in Transit program, 7th Street features several pieces intended to provide a better overall aesthetic for the station. The works include bas-reliefs entitled Gingko by Alice Adams, drinking fountain basins designed to look like dogwoods, the North Carolina state flower, by Nancy Blum, river stone benches by Hoss Haley and finishes on the track fencing, shelter windscreens and column cladding featuring a leaf motif of species of tree found in the station by Shaun Cassidy.[4]
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