Aurora Metro Center station is a Regional Transportation District (RTD) light rail station on the R Line in Aurora, Colorado. The station is located roughly equidistant between the Town Center at Aurora shopping mall and the Aurora Municipal Center, which contains Aurora's city hall, police headquarters, central library, and history museum.
Station layout 1F Platform LevelAurora Municipal Center; bus bays; parkingNorthbound← toward Peoria (2nd & Abilene)Southbound toward RidgeGate Parkway (Florida) →South Sable Boulevard; Town Center at Aurora The station opened on February 24, 2017, along with the rest of the R Line. The station was built next to - and superseded as a transit hub - a bus transfer center located at Centrepoint Drive and Sable Boulevard. The transfer center was renamed to Aurora Metro Center when the R Line began operation in order to match the station name. It has a 145-stall park-and-ride lot.
The R Line runs in mixed traffic through the immediate vicinity of the station, along East Ellsworth Avenue, South Sable Boulevard, and East Exposition Avenue.
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