Belvedere station (Edmonton)

Belvedere station is an Edmonton LRT 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
General information
Coordinates	53°35′18″N 113°25′58″W
Owned by	City of Edmonton
Platforms	Centre
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Surface
Parking	780 Stalls
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	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 Legend 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

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" by Father Douglas osf.^[5]

Around the station

• Belvedere
• Transit Hotel

Belvedere Transit Centre

Belvedere Transit Centre
General information
Platforms	12 bus bays[6]
Connections	FlixBus[7]
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	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.^[8][9]

The transit centre shelter was upgraded in 2017-2019 as part of a citywide $37.75 million transit centre improvement initiative^[10] $2.426 million in funding for the Belvedere Transit Centre renewal project was provided by the federal government.^[11] The new transit centre shelter opened on October 2, 2019.^[12]

The following bus routes serve the transit centre:

Main article: List of Edmonton Transit Service bus routes

To/From	Routes
Capilano Transit Centre	53
Clareview Transit Centre	2-Owl, 53, 107, 108
Coliseum Transit Centre	2-Owl, 53
Downtown	2-Owl
Londonderry	107
McConachie	107
Mill Woods Transit Centre	53
Northgate Transit Centre	106
Stadium Transit Centre	2-Owl
Wellington	106

The above list does not include LRT services from the adjacent LRT station.

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. "Belvedere Station :: City of Edmonton". Archived from the original on 2013-09-04. Retrieved 2013-08-07.
6. "Belvedere Transit Centre Map" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-09-25.
7. "Bus Edmonton to Calgary".
8. "Belvedere Transit Centre". Retrieved 2017-09-25.
9. "Belvedere LRT Station". Retrieved 2017-09-25.
10. 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.
11. "Federal Government Infrastructure Investments in Alberta Examples". Government of Alberta. 10 January 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
12. "Edmonton transit centres reopen". Journal of Commerce. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2019.

External links

Media related to Belvedere station (ETS) at Wikimedia Commons