Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center at LaVilla
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| Location | 100 LaVilla Center Drive Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°19′45″N 81°40′20″W / 30.329047°N 81.672206°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Jacksonville Transportation Authority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bus stands | 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Greyhound, Megabus, RedCoach (at Intercity Bus Terminal) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Ground level and elevated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | June 1989 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1996–1997, 2017–2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former names | Terminal (1989–1999) Convention Center (1999–2017) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center at LaVilla (JRTC) is an intermodal transit station in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It serves as the largest hub of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) bus system and the central hub of JTA's First Coast Flyer bus rapid transit (BRT) network,[1] and houses a station on the Jacksonville Skyway and JTA's administrative offices.
It is connected to by a pedestrian bridge to the Intercity Bus Terminal which is served by Greyhound Lines, Megabus, and RedCoach, and is across the street from the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center.
History
Original Skyway station
The JRTC stands on the former site of Terminal station, the original western terminus of the Jacksonville Skyway, which opened with the initial 0.7-mile (1.1 km) Phase I-A segment in June 1989. It was named in reference to the Jacksonville Terminal, a former train station that was converted into the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center in 1986.
All three existing stations were closed from December 1996 until December 1997, when the Skyway was rebuilt as a monorail.[2][3] Terminal station was renamed Convention Center station in 1999.[4]
The original station was served by an adjacent park and ride lot.[5]
Reconstruction
The City of Jacksonville had long planned to incorporate the site into an intermodal transit station, with the return of rail service to the Jacksonville Terminal.[2] In May 2017, JTA announced that the station would be closed about two months later for the construction of the Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center (JRTC).[6]
The station reopened as part of the new Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center on May 4, 2020.[7]
References
- ↑ "System Map" (PDF). Jacksonville Transportation Authority. Retrieved March 23, 2026.
- 1 2 Bell, Jon (December 22, 2014). "Jacksonville, Florida: The Skyway". www.jtbell.net. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
- ↑ Schneider, Jerry B. (May 31, 2013). "Jacksonville's Automated Skyway Express Downtown Peoplemover". faculty.washington.edu. University of Washington. Retrieved June 7, 2013.
- ↑ "Skyway Route". Jacksonville Transportation Authority. Archived from the original on February 3, 1999.
- ↑ "Skyway" (PDF). www.jtafla.com. Jacksonville Transportation Authority. June 6, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 10, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
- ↑ Kitchen, Sebastian (May 13, 2017). "JTA to shut down 2 Skyway stations for construction". The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center officially open after COVID-19 delay". Action News Jax. May 4, 2020. Retrieved September 27, 2021.