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Hampshire | |||||||||||||
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Pittsburgh Light Rail station | |||||||||||||
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Location | Broadway Avenue and Hampshire Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°24′38″N80°01′29″W / 40.4105°N 80.0247°W | ||||||||||||
Owned by | Pittsburgh Regional Transit | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||
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Accessible | No | ||||||||||||
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Opened | May 22, 1987 [1] | ||||||||||||
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2018 | 136 [2] (weekday boardings) | ||||||||||||
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