Champion station is an at-grade
light rail station on the
Green Line and the
Orange Line of the
VTA light rail
VTA Light Rail is a light rail system in San Jose and nearby cities in Santa Clara County, California. It is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, and consists of of network comprising three main lines on stand ...
system. The station is located in the center median of Tasman Drive just east of its intersection with Champion Court, after which the station is named. This station is the furthest east on the section of track shared by the Green and Orange lines.
Champion was built as part of the Tasman West extension project as an
infill station
An infill station (sometimes in-fill station) is
a train station built on an existing passenger rail, rapid transit, or light rail line to address demand in a location between existing stations. Such stations take advantage of existing train serv ...
on the original Guadeloupe Corridor. The station opened on March 24, 1997, a couple of years before the rest of the Tasman West stations.
Service
Station layout
Station artwork
The station features public artworks, including the sculpture ''EcoTech'' completed in 1997 by eco-artist
Deborah Kennedy
:''This is an article about the actress. For the American eco artist and author, see Deborah Kennedy (artist)''.
Deborah Kennedy is an Australian character actress recognised for several television and film roles, especially for her appearance ...
for the city of San Jose.
[Sanders, Patricia B. (November 1999). "A conversation with Deborah Kennedy", in ''Artweek'', San Jose, California, pp. 13–14.] The station is decorated with a number of icons commonly used to depict routers, switches and other networking devices on network maps as a nod to
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...
, whose San Jose campus surrounds the station.
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Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus stations
Railway stations in San Jose, California
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987
1987 establishments in California
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