Parkville station (Connecticut)

Parkville
Parkville
	Southbound bus at Parkville station in December 2015
General information
Location	Park Street and Francis Avenue; Hartford, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°45′26″N 72°42′15″W / 41.7571°N 72.7041°W
Owned by	ConnDOT
Operated by	Connecticut Transit
Bus routes	101, 102, 121, 128
Bus stands	2 side platforms
Connections	31, 33 (on Park Street)
Construction
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	March 28, 2015
Services

Parkville (known as Park Street during early planning) is a bus rapid transit station on the CTfastrak line, located near the intersection of Park Street and Francis Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. It opened with the line on March 28, 2015.^[1] The station consists of two side platforms serving the busway, with two center passing lanes to allow express buses to pass buses stopped at the station.^[2]

The New York and New England Railroad (and predecessor Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad) served a station approximately at the modern location.^[3] It opened around 1871, with a wooden depot built the next year.^[4] It may have been served until the end of passenger service between Hartford and New Britain in 1959.^[3] Trains using the parallel Springfield Line, originally built by the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, did not stop at Parkville.

References edit

^ ^a ^b "Despite Snow, Thousands of Riders, Many First-Timers, Experience CTfastrak on First Day of Service" (Press release). Connecticut Department of Transportation. 28 March 2015. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015.
^ "Station Site Plans". Connecticut Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Karr, Ronald Dale (1995). The Rail Lines of Southern New England. Branch Line Press. p. 83. ISBN 0942147022.
^ "Track 12: CT Passenger Stations, O-P". Tyler City Station. Retrieved 26 October 2015.