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Burnett Transit Center | |||||||||||
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Location | North Main Street near Burnett Street Houston, Texas USA | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 29°46′20″N95°21′34″W / 29.7721°N 95.3594°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | METRO | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Red Line | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 island platforms | ||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||
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Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | December 21, 2013 | ||||||||||
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The Burnett Transit Center is an elevated light rail station on the METRORail Red Line in Houston, Texas, United States. It was built as part of the North/Red Line Extension, and opened on December 21, 2013. [1]
It has three tracks accessed by two island platforms, one for each direction. The center track is used by northbound trains short-turning to return southbound. These trains unload passengers onto the eastern (northbound) platform, and load passengers from the western (southbound) platform.
The station features a six-bay bus terminal and a "Kiss and Ride" facility at ground level.
The station is located above the intersection of North Main Street and Burnett Street, which was once proposed for a multimodal transit hub prior to 2011. [2]
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