List of San Diego Trolley stations

The San Diego Trolley is a light rail system operating in San Diego County, California. The trolley's operator, San Diego Trolley, Inc. (reporting mark SDTI), is a subsidiary of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). The San Diego Trolley opened for service on July 26, 1981. It operates four primary lines (Blue, Orange, Green, and Copper) as well as a supplementary heritage streetcar downtown loop known as the Silver Line that operates on holidays.

History

The current operating company of the San Diego Trolley system, San Diego Trolley Incorporated (SDTI), was not founded until 1980[1] when the Metropolitan Transit Development Board (now operating as San Diego's MTS) began to plan a light-rail service along the Main Line of the former San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway (SD&AE Railway), which the MTDB purchased from the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1979.[1] The Trolley began operations on July 19, 1981, with revenue service beginning on July 26, 1981.[1] Trains at that time operated on a single line between Centre City or downtown San Diego and San Ysidro, with stops in some San Diego neighborhoods, and in the cities of National City and Chula Vista.

In March 1986, SDTI opened an extension east from Centre City San Diego to Euclid Avenue, along the La Mesa Branch of the former SD&AE Railway – this new second line of the Trolley was then called the East Line, while the original line opened in 1981 became the South Line.[1] Service was extended along the East Line to Spring Street on May 12, 1989

Current system

The San Diego Trolley system has 62 operational stations serving its six Trolley lines, four of which operate daily (the Silver Line only operates during select holidays, and the Special Event Line is only active during Comic-Con).[7][8]

Fourteen of the Trolley system's stations operate as transfer stations, which allow passengers to transfer between lines. There is one universal transfer point (i.e. allowing for transfers among all three major lines – Blue, Green, and Orange) in the system in downtown San Diego: the 12th & Imperial Transit Center station. The adjacent Santa Fe Depot/America Plaza/Courthouse stations, which are within walking distance of each other, also allow for transfer among the four lines. Six Trolley stations are end-of-line stations. Of the 63 stations, 47 of them are within the city limits of San Diego, serving various neighborhoods in San Diego; the other 16 stations are located in surrounding communities, such as El Cajon and National City.

Most stations in the San Diego Trolley system are 'at-grade' stations. There are ten elevated stations in the system and a single underground station (SDSU Transit Center).

About half of San Diego Trolley stations offer free