Health Sciences (ETS)
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Health Sciences Station is an LRT station operated by Edmonton Transit System in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is located on the surface at 83 Avenue and 114 Street on the University of Alberta campus near the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, the Walter MacKenzie Health Sciences Centre, the Health Research Innovation Facility and the Canadian Blood Services Edmonton Blood Donor Clinic. A number of other medical facilities--including the Mazankowski Heart Institute (under construction), the Aberhart Centre, and the Cross Cancer Institute--are all within easy walking distance of the station.
Health Sciences Station opened on January 1, 2006, and is the second LRT station built on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River. Is is also the first above ground station to be built since Clareview Station opened in 1981 and the first station built as part of Edmonton's South LRT Expanstion Project. The South LRT expansion project will add five new stations and 7.5 km of track to the system by 2010.
Health Sciences Station is the LRT's current southern terminus.
The station is located between the University Station and the McKernan/Belgravia Station (under construction). The line connecting the Health Sciences Station on the surface to the University Station, one of the deepest underground stations on the LRT system, is so steep, modifications were required to the brakes on the LRT cars to accomodate it.[1]
A possible new line has been proposed that would run from the Health Sciences Station to West Edmonton Mall (the WLRT), however, the city has no plans for a line to the west end at this time.
Clareview · Belvedere · Coliseum · Stadium · Churchill · Central · Bay · Corona · Grandin-Government Centre · University · Health Sciences · McKernan/Belgravia (2008) · South Campus (2008) · Southgate (2010) · Century Park (2010)
Future stations in italics
