Spokane Community College (Spokane Transit)

Spokane Community College is a transit center and proposed BRT terminus in the Spokane Transit Authority route system. It is one of Spokane Transit's three primary transit centers, along with the STA Plaza and Pence-Cole Valley transit centers.

History

Planning for the Spokane Community College transit center began around 1982^[3] and the center opened c. 1984.^[4] It was later reconstructed during summer 2013^[5] in a project that replaced all existing shelter structures and added additional bus loading zones. The 2013 improvements are intended to be an interim solution as the transit center will eventually be replaced by a newer and larger one.

Future

The SCC transit center is the proposed eastern terminus of the planned Central City Line bus rapid transit line, slated to be open in 2021. Because the vehicles will utilize electric-battery propulsion to be charged through inductive charging, major infrastructure improvements will be required to support the BRT line.

Alternatively, the transit center may also be replaced in the future by a new and larger center at a nearby site, slated to be called the Upriver Transit Center. Growing transit operations combined with site constraints, particularly the construction of an elevated North Spokane Corridor adjacent to the current site, limit the future potential of the transit center in its current form.

Location

As implied by its name, the transit center is located on the Spokane Community College campus and is sited at its northeast corner.

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