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Location | 1101 West Colfax Avenue Denver, Colorado | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°44′25″N105°00′07″W / 39.740319°N 105.001918°W | ||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Central Corridor [1] | ||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Connections | RTD Bus: 16 | ||||||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | October 8, 1994 | ||||||||||||||
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2014 | 16,065 (avg. weekday) [2] 5.7% | ||||||||||||||
Rank | 1 out of 44 [2] | ||||||||||||||
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