Zia Road  | |||||||||||
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| Rail Runner Express commuter rail station | |||||||||||
 Zia Road Rail Runner station | |||||||||||
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| Location | 602 West Zia Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°38′47″N 105°57′25″W / 35.6464°N 105.9570°W | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | Zone F | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | April 24, 2017 | ||||||||||
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Zia Road is a station on the New Mexico Rail Runner Express commuter rail line, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The station is the first Rail Runner stop to be constructed on private land. Officials had scheduled it to open in August 2011, following an agreement from the city's finance committee that the stop will open if the owners construct parking and transit facilities for the station[1] and the station opened in April 2017.[2]
The station is located at the intersection of Zia Road & St. Francis Drive, and is planned to be the center of a mixed-use, transit-oriented development.[3]
Each of the Rail Runner stations contains an icon to express each community's identity. The icon representing this station is the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.
NMDOT announced in 2013 that they were waiting to complete a traffic study before starting parking lot construction, and potential designation for mixed-use development.[4] However, Santa Fe City Council had indicated back in 2011 that although the land may be mixed use development, the station itself would be a Kiss-n-Ride station, meaning there will be no dedicated Rail Runner parking spots.[5] In February 2015, The Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization completed tests of trains stopping at the station and the impact of the surrounding area.[6][7]
- ^ "Santa Fe council committee agrees to opening of Zia Rail Runner stop". www.therepublic.com. Retrieved July 11, 2021.[dead link]
- ^ "Zia Road". riometro.org. Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2021.
- ^ "Zia Station – Santa Fe, NM". ziastation.com.
- ^ Horwath, Justin (November 19, 2013). "Stationary Promise: Traffic study nearly complete for idle Rail Runner train station at Zia Road". Santa Fe Reporter. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
- ^ Chacón, Daniel J. (February 23, 2014). "Study looks at traffic impacts of opening Zia Road station". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
- ^ Luby, Ryan (4 February 2015). "Rail Runner's $1M 'ghost train' station remains unused, off map". KOB TV. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ^ Last, T.S. (20 January 2015). "Santa Fe studying opening Rail Runner Zia Station". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved 6 March 2015.