Gateway Station

The new Gateway Station is now OPEN!

Read the Register-Guard story here

More than 60 guests attended the Gateway Station Dedication event on May 13, 2009. The featured speakers were Oregon Transportation Commissioner Alan Brown, Springfield City Councilor and former LTD Board Member Hillary Wylie, Springfield Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Dan Egan, Gateway Mall Manager Ron Glover, and LTD Board President Mike Eyster.

The new transit station is located adjacent to Gateway Street at Gateway Mall in Springfield. The station serves about 15,000 customers per month with regular bus service, and it will add EmX service when the Gateway EmX Extension opens in January 2011.

Replacing a 20-year-old facility near Target, the new station provides customers with more central access to Gateway Mall as well as other Gateway area businesses and neighborhoods. The station features an enhanced pedestrian crossing and a covered walkway to shelter people as they walk between Gateway Mall and the station. Beyond better customer service, the new station reduces LTD’s operating costs by eliminating the time required to travel through the mall parking lot to the former station location.

The $2 million Gateway Station was entirely funded by capital discretionary grants through the State of Oregon Connect Oregon program and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The project provided local jobs through local firms at a time when our area’s economy has been struggling. Rowell Brokaw Architects led the design team, and Brown Contracting, Inc. managed its construction. Sixteen other companies were hired as subcontractors to provide civil engineering, traffic planning, electrical, fabrication, painting, masonry, landscape, and other design and construction services.

“Gateway Station represents a successful partnership with state, federal, and city government, as well as Gateway Mall, its parent company, General Growth Properties, and the Gateway Mall tenants,” emphasized Mike Eyster, LTD Board president.  “LTD believes that the popularity of Gateway Mall and the surrounding area will attract additional customers and that the EmX service will better connect people with the community.”

FUNDING

Project Cost $2 million - 100% funded by state and federal funds