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The Lynx Blue Line is a light rail line in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Opened in 2007, it was the first rail line of the Charlotte Area Transit System , [ 2 ] and the first major rapid rail service of any kind in the state.
The LYNX rail system in Charlotte, North Carolina, US comprises 43 stations on two lines, the Blue Line and the Gold Line. The Blue Line is a light rail line connecting Uptown Charlotte to Pineville and the University of North Carolina Charlotte campus. [1] The Gold Line is a streetcar line within Uptown Charlotte.
Line number Course route Line LGV Sud-Est: 429, 431 LGV Atlantique: 408 LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire: 216, 226 112, 222, 250 LGV Nord: 226 LGV Interconnexion Est: LGV Rhône-Alpes: LGV Méditerranée: 005 100 LGV Est: LGV Perpignan–Figueres: 014 140 LGV Rhin-Rhône: 303 LGV Sud Europe Atlantique
Opened on November 24, 2007 and hailed as the first major rapid rail service of any kind in North Carolina, the line has 15 stations and ran 9.6 miles (15.4 km) between I-485/South Boulevard, near Pineville, and 7th Street, in Uptown Charlotte; the line was partly shared with the Charlotte Trolley from 2008–2010.
The Lynx Silver Line is a proposed east–west light rail line in Charlotte, North Carolina. [2] The Silver Line would connect the outlying cities and towns of Belmont , Matthews , Stallings and Indian Trail to Uptown Charlotte and the Charlotte Douglas International Airport .
The LYNX system comprises a 19.3-mile long north-south light rail line known as the Blue Line and a 1.5-mile streetcar line, known as the CityLYNX Gold Line. The Blue Line was extended from the original section, I-485 to Uptown, to the UNC Charlotte campus in 2018.
Originally, the southern terminus for the Blue Line was proposed for downtown Pineville, near NC 51. [3] In 2002, the southern end was moved approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the north along South Boulevard at its present location as a result of low projected ridership figures for the proposed downtown Pineville station. [3]
The Lynx Red Line is a proposed commuter rail service, connecting the towns in northern Mecklenburg and southern Iredell counties to Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.In 2019, after a reevaluation of the entire corridor, the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) decided to move forward with BRT and shelve the commuter rail; which had been met with frustration by various city leaders and ...