Spokane Community College (Spokane Transit)

Spokane Community College
STA transit center
Location 1810 N Greene St., Spokane, WA 99217
Coordinates 47°40′33″N 117°21′45″W / 47.675940°N 117.362570°W / 47.675940; -117.362570
Owned by Spokane Transit Authority
Bus stands 7
Construction
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened c. 1984[1]
Rebuilt 2013
Traffic
Passengers 1,725 (avg. weekday, 2015)[2]
Services
  Future service  
Preceding station   Spokane Transit Authority   Following station
Mission & Regal
toward Cannon & 4th
Central City Line
Future
Terminus

Spokane Community College is a transit center and planned BRT terminus in the Spokane Transit Authority route system. It is one of Spokane Transit's three primary transit centers, along with the STA Plaza and Pence-Cole Valley transit centers.

History

Planning for the Spokane Community College transit center began around 1982[3] and the center opened c. 1984.[4] It was later reconstructed during summer 2013[5] in a project that replaced all existing shelter structures and added additional bus loading zones. The 2013 improvements are intended to be an interim solution as the transit center will eventually be replaced by a newer and larger one.

Future

The SCC transit center is the original proposed eastern terminus of the planned Central City Line bus rapid transit line, slated to be open in 2021. Because the vehicles will utilize electric-battery propulsion to be charged through inductive charging, major infrastructure improvements would be required to support the BRT line.

The decision was made to replace the Spokane Community College transit center with new and larger center at a nearby site, slated to be called the Upriver Transit Center. Growing transit operations combined with site constraints, particularly the construction of an elevated North Spokane Corridor adjacent to the current site, limit the future potential of the transit center in its current form. Construction on the new transit center will begin in 2019.[6]

Location

As implied by its name, the transit center is located on the Spokane Community College campus and is sited at its northeast corner.

References

  1. ↑ "Transit Centers Planned". Spokane Chronicle. 10 December 1984. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Annual Performance Report – Passenger Facilities Edition No. 4 (2015 Data)". Spokane Transit Authority. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  3. ↑ "Transit Shelters on Agenda". Spokane Chronicle. 25 February 1982. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Transit Centers Planned". Spokane Chronicle. 10 December 1984. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Prager, Mike (9 September 2013). "Getting There: Spokane airport to offer quicker screenings". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "URTC Fact Sheet Jul17" (PDF). STA Moving Forward. Spokane Transit Authority. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
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