Flatbush Avenue (CDOT station)

Flatbush Avenue
Flatbush Avenue station under construction in December 2014
Coordinates	41°44′31″N 72°42′59″W / 41.7419°N 72.7164°W / 41.7419; -72.7164
Line(s)	CTfastrak
Platforms	1 island platform
History
Opened	March 28, 2015 [1]
Services
Starting March 2015   Preceding station   ConnDOT   Following station Elmwood toward Downtown New Britain CTfastrak Kane Street toward Union Station

Flatbush Avenue is an under construction bus rapid transit station on the CTfastrak line, located near the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and New Park Avenue in West Hartford, Connecticut. It will open with the line on March 28, 2015.^[1] The station consists of one island platform to the side of the busway, with passing lanes to allow express buses to pass buses stopped at the station.^[2]

The New York and New England Railroad (and predecessor Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad) operated a station named Charter Oak Park at Oakwood Street slightly to the south, serving the Charter Oak Park racing track and the Luna Park recreation area. It opened with the track in 1874, was rebuilt in 1900, and likely closed with the track in 1940.^[3] The New Haven Railroad had an adjacent Oakwood station on its parallel Springfield Line; it opened in 1874 and was closed in the late 1890s after the New Haven's purchase of the NY&NE rendered it redundant.^[4]

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