Children's Discovery Museum station explained

Children's Discovery Museum
Style:SCVTA
Symbol Location:santaclara
Symbol:Blue
Address:180 Woz Way
Borough:San Jose, California
Coordinates:37.3275°N -121.8934°W
Owned:Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Line:Guadalupe Phase 3
Platforms:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Connections: VTA Bus: 23[1]
Structure:At-grade
Accessible:Yes
Opened:[2]
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:14

Children's Discovery Museum station is an at-grade light rail station on the Blue Line of the VTA light rail system. The station platform runs along Woz Way (named after Apple founder Steve "Woz" Wozniak) and serves the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, after which the station is named. Just south of this station, the Blue Line enters the median of California State Route 87.

History

The station opened on August 17, 1990, as part of Phase 3 of the light rail system's original Guadalupe Line. It was originally named Technology Center station, after the Technology Center of Silicon Valley, a temporary museum that had just been renamed to The Garage. After the museum became The Tech Museum of Innovation and moved to a new building on the Plaza de César Chávez, the San Jose City Council proposed to rename it to "Children's Discovery Museum/Guadalupe River Park & Garden station" and "Discovery Meadows station" before arriving at a name that the VTA would approve, Children's Discovery Museum.[3]

Notable places nearby

The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: October 11, 2021 . VTA Light Rail System . 2022-02-04 . Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
  2. Web site: VTA Facts: Light Rail System . November 30, 2006 . . PDF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090320011638/http://www.vta.org/news/factsheets/bus_lightrail_trolly_information/09_light_rail_system_110705.pdf . March 20, 2009 . January 10, 2020.
  3. News: Light-rail station gets simple name. Ed. Pope. San Jose Mercury News. April 2, 1997. 1B. NewsBank.
  4. Web site: October 27, 2016 . Downtown San José . February 18, 2022 . San Jose Convention & Visitors Bureau.
  5. February 14, 2022 . Downtown San Jose . February 18, 2022 . Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.