Rosa Parks Transit Station | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | 201 Union Street West Jacksonville, Florida, United States | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°20′00″N81°39′32″W / 30.33333°N 81.65889°W /30.33333; -81.65889 | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Jacksonville Transportation Authority | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Ground level and elevated | ||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | December 15, 1997 | ||||||||||||||
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Rosa Parks Transit Station is anintermodal transit station inDowntownJacksonville, Florida. It is operated by theJacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) as a station for theJacksonville Skyway elevatedpeople mover. It previously served as Jacksonville's main citybus station before being replaced by theJacksonville Regional Transportation Center at LaVilla in May 2020. It is located on Hogan Street between State Street and Union Street, and is the Skyway's northern terminus. It is across the street from the Downtown campus ofFlorida State College at Jacksonville.
JTA plans to keep the station active as a hub for a smaller number of JTA routes, including the Red Line of theFirst Coast Flyerbus rapid transit system. The eastern half of the station was decommissioned and demolished in late 2020 to prepare for eventualtransit-oriented development opportunities.
The station was built in 1997 to serve as both a newbus station and the northern terminus of the new north–south segment of theJacksonville Skyway, allowing access to the state college. Construction on the Skyway extension began in 1993, and coincided with the system's switch fromMatra toBombardier Transportation technology. The station became operational on December 15, 1997.[1]
When the station served as Jacksonville's major bus transfer point, it featured eighteen bays for city buses at ground level.[2] The elevated Skyway platform is located on a second level.[1] The station was highly regarded and won awards for its architectural design.[2]
After theJacksonville Regional Transportation Center at LaVilla opened in May 2020, Rosa Parks Transit Station no longer served as the city's main bus station. Later that year, the eastern half of the station was decommissioned and demolished to prepare for eventualtransit-oriented development opportunities. Nine of the station's bus bays remain standing, but as of 2023, only the three closest to the Skyway platform remain in use.
The next station on the line isJames Weldon Johnson Park station to the south.[1] Notable places within walking distance of the station include the Downtown Campus ofFlorida State College at Jacksonville andFirst Baptist Church of Jacksonville.[3]
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