Chinook station

Chinook station is a CTrain light rail station in Calgary, Alberta. It serves the south leg of the Red Line. The station opened on May 25, 1981 as part of the original South line.

Chinook
CTrain station
Location	229 - 61 Avenue SW
Coordinates	50°59′50″N 114°03′57″W
Owned by	Calgary Transit
Platforms	Center-loading platform
Connections	9 Dalhousie 10 City Hall/Southcentre 36 Riverbend 41 Lynnwood 43 Mcknight 47 Lakeview 81 Macleod Tr. 148 Great Plains 410 Glenmore Business Park
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	320 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1981
Rebuilt	2013
Services
Preceding station CTrain Following station 39 Avenue toward Tuscany Red Line Heritage toward Somerset–Bridlewood

The station is located on the exclusive LRT right of way (adjacent to CPR ROW) at 61 Avenue SW, 5.7 km south of the City Hall Interlocking. It is a three-block walk from the Chinook Centre shopping centre. A 320-space parking facility is also available for park and ride commuters.

The station consists of a center-loading platform with ramp access on the North end.

Chinook is the only Public Transit Station named after a privately owned and operated business (the shopping mall) as there are no other landmarks or communities in the area with that title when the station opened in Calgary. Years later, Westbrook station opened and naming scheme like this station.

It serves the communities of Windsor Park, Meadowlark Park, Kingsland as well as extensive industrial and commercial areas located just to the east of Macleod Trail, such as Manchester and Fairview Industrial.

As part of Calgary Transit's plan to operate four-car trains starting by the end of 2014, all three-car stations will need to be extended. Chinook Station however was completely rebuilt to a new design very similar to Somerset-Bridlewood, McKnight/Westwinds and Saddletowne Stations. Construction on the new bus terminal started in the summer of 2012. On January 14, 2013, the station and bus terminal closed for redevelopment and has re-opened on September 3, 2013.[1] Bus service to Chinook passed through a temporary terminal at 3 Street SW with a bus shuttle connecting the terminal and the 39th Avenue CTrain station during the station's closure. [2]

In 2005, the station registered an average transit of 12,400 boardings per weekday.[3]