Bay/Enterprise Square station

Bay/Enterprise Square
Edmonton LRT station
General information
Coordinates	53°32′27″N 113°29′54″W
Owned by	City of Edmonton
Platforms	Centre
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Website	Bay/Enterprise Square LRT Station
History
Opened	1983
Electrified	600 V DC[1]
Previous names	Bay Station
Passengers
2019 (typical weekday)	5,231 board 5,041 alight 10,272 Total[2]
Services
Preceding station Edmonton LRT Following station Central toward Clareview Capital Line Corona toward Century Park Central toward NAIT/Blatchford Market Metro Line Corona toward Health Sciences/Jubilee
Route map CN lines Clareview Highway 15 50 Street 137 Avenue D.L. MacDonald Yard Belvedere CN lines Highway 16 Yellowhead Trail Wayne Gretzky Drive Blatchford Gate Coliseum NAIT/Blatchford Market 118 Avenue Kingsway/​Royal Alex CN Spur End MacEwan Stadium 102 Street to Lewis Farms (2028) Churchill Quarters Central Bay/Enterprise Square Tawatinâ Bridge over North Saskatchewan River Corona Muttart Government Centre Strathearn Dudley B. Menzies Bridge over North Saskatchewan River Holyrood University Bonnie Doon Health Sciences/Jubilee Avonmore McKernan/​Belgravia Mill Creek Belgravia Road Davies South Campus/ Fort Edmonton Park 75 Street 111 Street southbound lane Gerry Wright OMF Southgate Highway 14 Whitemud Drive Highway 2 Whitemud Drive Millbourne/​Woodvale Century Park Grey Nuns Mill Woods Key Capital Line Valley Line Metro Line CN tracks All stations are accessible This diagram: view talk edit

Bay/Enterprise Square station is an Edmonton LRT station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It serves both the Capital Line and the Metro Line. It is an underground station located beneath Jasper Avenue between 103 Street and 104 Street in downtown Edmonton. It is named for both the former Hudson's Bay Company store and Enterprise Square, the University of Alberta's downtown campus.

The station was originally called Bay station.

History

The station opened in June 1983 along with Corona station when the tunnel running beneath downtown Edmonton was extended west by 0.8 km (0.50 mi) from Central station.[3]

Bay station in 2007. Since then, the payphones have been removed and passenger information displays have been added

In spring 2008, the University of Alberta requested to the City of Edmonton's naming committee that the station be renamed "Enterprise Square" after the university's downtown campus which moved into the former Bay building in 2007. However the request was denied in June before the university appealed the decision in August 2008.[4] On January 28, 2009, the city approved to rename the station "Bay/Enterprise Square" as a compromise.[5]

Station layout

The station has a 130-metre-long (430 ft) centre loading platform that can accommodate two five-car LRT trains at the same time, with one train on each side of the platform. The platform is just over eight metres wide. Access to the platform is from the concourse level by stairs and escalators located at each end of the platform. The concourse level is connected to the pedway system through Enterprise Square.[6]

Around the station

• Enterprise Square
• All Saints' Anglican Cathedral
• Canadian Western Bank Building
• Downtown
• First Presbyterian Church
• Icon Towers
• Red Arrow bus terminal

References

1. "SD160 Light Rail Vehicle" (PDF). Siemens Transportation Systems, Inc. May 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
2. "2019 LRT Passenger Count Report" (PDF). City of Edmonton. April 2020. Retrieved 5 Feb 2021.
3. "LRT Brochure" (PDF). November 15, 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 4, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
4. Kent, Gordon (August 6, 2008). "U of A appeals ruling on renaming Bay LRT station". Edmonton Journal. p. B2.
5. Kent, Gordon (January 28, 2009). "LRT's Bay station adds name". Edmonton Journal. Archived from the original on July 7, 2024. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
6. City of Edmonton (July 2011). "LRT Design Guidelines 2011" (PDF). City of Edmonton. p. 700. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 1, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2012.