University Drive/Rural station
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The station during its first day of service on December 27, 2008 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Other names | ASU Earth/Space/Life Center | ||||||||||
| Location | Rural Road and Tyler Street, Tempe, Arizona United States | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°25′14.75″N 111°55′37″W / 33.4207639°N 111.92694°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Valley Metro | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Valley Metro Rail | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Valley Metro Bus: 30, 62, 72, Tempe Orbit Mars, Tempe Orbit Mercury, Tempe Flash FlixBus | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Accessible | |||||||||||
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| Station code | 10023 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | December 27, 2008 | ||||||||||
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University Drive/Rural station, also known as ASU Earth/Space/Life Center, is a station on the A Line of the Valley Metro Rail system in Tempe, Arizona, United States. The station is not actually at the intersection of its named streets, sitting some distance south of University Drive, with the platforms running northwest from Rural Road along the former alignment of the Phoenix and Eastern Railroad.
FlixBus boards from the north bay on the west side of the station.
The station features "The Spirit of Inquiry," a monumental spherical sculpture by Seattle artists Bill Will and Norie Sato.