Belvedere station (Edmonton)

Belvedere station is an Edmonton Light Rail Transit in Edmonton, Alberta. It serves the Capital Line. It is a ground-level station located at Fort Road and 129 Avenue.

Belvedere
Edmonton LRT station
Coordinates	53°35′18″N 113°25′58″W
Owned by	City of Edmonton
Platforms	Sides
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Surface
Parking	780 Stalls
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Website	Belvedere LRT Station
History
Opened	1978
Rebuilt	1998
Electrified	600 V DC[1]
Passengers
2019 (typical weekday)	4,029 board 3,839 alight 7,868 Total[2]
Services
Preceding station Edmonton LRT Following station Clareview Terminus Capital Line Coliseum toward Century Park
Route map min. running time Northeast LRT to Gorman future 0 Clareview Hwy 15 (50 Street) 137 Avenue D.L. MacDonald Yard 3 Belvedere CN Lines Hwy 16 (Yellowhead Trail) Wayne Gretzky Drive 6 Coliseum 118 Avenue CN Spur End 8 Stadium Northwest LRT to St. Albert future NAIT Kingsway/Royal Alex MacEwan 12 Churchill 13 Central 15 Bay/Enterprise Square 16 Corona 18 Grandin Dudley B. Menzies Bridge over North Saskatchewan River 20 University 22 Health Sciences/Jubilee 24 McKernan/Belgravia Belgravia Road 26 S. Campus/Ft. Edmonton 111 Street southbound 29 Southgate Hwy 2 (Whitemud Drive) 33 Century Park South LRT to south city limits future

History

The station is one of the original five stations, and opened on April 22, 1978. At that time, Belvedere was the north east terminus of the line.

The original station had a single side platform and a single track.

The station underwent significant upgrades including a covered station, five car platform, and a grade separated pedestrian overpass—at a cost of $6.3 million, in 1998.[3]

Belvedere Station won two awards, the Masonry Contractors Association of Alberta Award of Excellence and the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction, Alberta Steel Design Award in the Architectural Category for Most Effective and Innovative Use of Structural Steel.[3]

Station layout

The station has a 121-metre-long (397 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 under 8 m (26 ft) wide, which is narrow by current Edmonton LRT design guidelines.[4]

The LRT station and transit centre has a park and ride lot with 780 parking spaces.

Public art

Belvedere Station is decorated with stained glass pieces entitled "Travail in Tandem".[5]

Around the station

• Belvedere
• Transit Hotel

Belvedere Transit Centre

Belvedere Transit Centre
Platforms	12 bus bays[6]
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Website	Belvedere Transit Centre

The Belvedere Transit Centre is located on the west side of the LRT station. It is connected to the station by a pedestrian overpass. It contains several amenities including Park & Ride, a drop off area, a large shelter, a pay phone and vending machines. There are no washrooms at this transit centre, but there are washrooms inside the LRT station.[7][8]

The transit centre shelter was upgraded in 2017-2019 as part of a citywide $37.75 million transit centre improvement initiative[9] $2.426 million in funding for the Belvedere Transit Centre renewal project was provided by the federal government.[10] The new transit centre shelter opened on October 2, 2019.[11]

The following bus routes serve the transit centre:[12]

To/From	Routes
Abbottsfield Transit Centre	180
Capilano Transit Centre	99
Clareview Transit Centre	10, 181, 186, 512
Coliseum Transit Centre	10, 99, 125, 512
Downtown	512
Eaux Claires Transit Centre	180
Fraser	186
Jasper Place Transit Centre	125
Kingsway/Royal Alex Transit Centre	125
Londonderry	181
Northgate Transit Centre	152, 153, 154, 186
Stadium Transit Centre	125, 512
Westmount Transit Centre	125

The above list does not include LRT services from the adjacent LRT station.
School special routes that arrive/depart from Belvedere Transit Centre include routes: 10S, 99S, 153S, and 186S.[13]

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. City of Edmonton (July 2011). "LRT Design Guidelines 2011" (PDF). p. 700. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 1, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-04. Retrieved 2013-08-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. "Belvedere Transit Centre Map" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-09-25.
7. "Belvedere Transit Centre". Retrieved 2017-09-25.
8. "Belvedere LRT Station". Retrieved 2017-09-25.
9. Simes, Jeremy (May 12, 2017). "Edmonton to begin replacing transit centres this summer". Metro News. Archived from the original on 13 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
10. "Federal Government Infrastructure Investments in Alberta Examples". Government of Alberta. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
11. "Edmonton transit centres reopen". Journal of Commerce. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
12. "Brochures in PDF". City of Edmonton. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
13. "School Service: ETS Trip Planner". City of Edmonton. Retrieved 28 August 2019.

External links

Media related to Belvedere station (ETS) at Wikimedia Commons