CHENEY -- An $800,000 bus stop, commonly called “Eagle Station,” is expected to open late this fall on Elm Street, adjacent to Eastern Washington University’s campus. The new facility, that serves 1,000 passengers a day, will house heaters for the winter and real-time screens to project route times.
The shelter area, fitted with three bus bays, will be able to house 100 students at a time and will be painted red to “highlight the important partnership between STA and EWU.”
“Eagle Station is one part of the larger Cheney Line project, which is a fully funded high performance transit route between Cheney and Spokane,” spokesman Brandon Rapez-Betty wrote in email. “That route will include improved stations and amenities, as well as more transit service. The Four Lakes station improvement was another part of overall Cheney Line in terms of the customer experience.”
Funding for the project was provided by a combination of state Regional Mobility Grants and local sources. “[This] will be much better than what they had when I went there,” commented one former EWU student.
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