Los Lunas is a station on the New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter rail line, located in Los Lunas, New Mexico, at the intersection of Highway 314 and Courthouse Road. The station began service on December 11, 2006 as the fourth station on the line. Los Lunas Public Transportation has shuttles serving the station. Each of the Rail Runner stations contains an icon to express each community's identity. The icon representing this station is the old Los Lunas train station.[1]
Rail Runner Express commuter rail station | |||||||||||
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Location | 101 Courthouse Road Los Lunas, New Mexico 87031 | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 34°47′58″N 106°44′14″W / 34.79944°N 106.73722°W | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
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Parking | 190 spaces | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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Fare zone | Zone A | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | December 11, 2006 | ||||||||||
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The station has free parking, with 190 spaces, with congestion at the parking lot requiring that an extension be built less than a year after the station originally opened.[2] This extension was opened on April 30, 2007.[2] The mayor of the town admitted that more parking was needed although the extension had recently been built;[3] the next phase of expansion involves building 120 new spaces.[2]
Gallery
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The icon for Los Lunas station
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The platform
References
edit- ^ Los Lunas station Rail Runner official site Retrieved 2007-08-20
- ^ a b c Los Lunas station parking lot expanded Archived 2007-08-21 at the Wayback Machine Rail Runner official site Retrieved 2007-08-20
- ^ Record passenger numbers Archived 2007-08-21 at the Wayback Machine Rail Runner official site Retrieved 2007-08-20
External links
edit- Stations, Los Lunas Official Rail Runner site