| South Hills Junction | |||||||||||
| Style: | PAAC | ||||||||||
| Type: | Pittsburgh Light Rail station | ||||||||||
| Address: | Boggston & Warrington Avenue | ||||||||||
| Borough: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 40.4209°N -80.0073°W | ||||||||||
| Connections: | Pittsburgh Regional Transit: 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 48, 54, Y1, Y45, Y46, Y47, Y49 Freedom Transit: Metro Commuter | ||||||||||
| Opened: | December 4, 1904 | ||||||||||
| Platform: | 4 | ||||||||||
| Accessible: | true | ||||||||||
| Owned: | Pittsburgh Regional Transit | ||||||||||
| Passengers: | 668[1] | ||||||||||
| Pass Year: | 2018 | ||||||||||
| Pass System: | weekday boardings | ||||||||||
| Other Services Header: | Former services | ||||||||||
| Other Services Collapsible: | yes | ||||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||||
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South Hills Junction station is a station on Pittsburgh Regional Transit's light rail network. This station served as the original "merge point" of the inbound Beechview and Overbrook branches of the light rail system, just before the run under Mount Washington through the Mount Washington Transit Tunnel and into downtown Pittsburgh. In 1993 the Overbrook (Blue) Line was shut down for complete reconstruction to serve the modern-day light rail cars.[2] During construction, it was found that a segment of track between the Boggs Ave. stop and South Hills Junction was too narrow for the larger vehicles; this was bypassed with two wide-curved rail ramps built between the Beechview (Red) Line's Palm Garden stop and South Hills Junction where the two branches now merge.
Few local residences are accessible from the station, which functions as a large transit center. In addition to serving as a transfer station for The T, a large number of bus connections are established at the site, including those that travel the South Busway, which travels on the upper level of the station.
The station and line were originally established by Pittsburgh Railways in 1904 when the Mount Washington Trolley Tunnel was completed, with the first fare paying passengers on December 4, 1904.[3]