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Champion
Champion station platform in 2012
General information
Location	175 Tasman Drive San Jose, California
Coordinates	37°24′33″N 121°57′08″W / 37.40917°N 121.95222°W / 37.40917; -121.95222
Owned by	Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	ACE Shuttle: Brown, Purple
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	March 24, 1997 (1997-03-24)
Services
Preceding station VTA light rail Following station Lick Milltoward Old Ironsides Green Line Tasmantoward Winchester Lick Milltoward Mountain View Orange Line Baypointetoward Alum Rock
Location

Champion station is an at-grade light rail station on the Green Line and the Orange Line of the VTA light rail 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 on the original Guadeloupe Corridor. The station opened on March 24, 1997, a couple of years before the rest of the Tasman West stations.

Station artwork

The station features public artworks, including the sculpture EcoTech completed in 1997 by eco-artist Deborah Kennedy for the city of San Jose. 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, whose San Jose campus surrounds the station.

References

1. "ACE Shuttles" (PDF). Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. July 2, 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 12, 2022. Retrieved June 29, 2022.
2. Barnacle, Betty (March 24, 1997). "Light Rail Opens New Stop; First Station on Tasman Line to Serve North S.J. High-Tech Firms". San Jose Mercury News. p. B1. Retrieved October 31, 2022 – via NewsBank.
3. Sanders, Patricia B. (November 1999). "A conversation with Deborah Kennedy", in Artweek, San Jose, California, pp. 13–14.

External links

• Media related to Champion (VTA) at Wikimedia Commons

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