UC San Diego Health La Jolla station explained

UC San Diego Health La Jolla
Style:San Diego Trolley
Address:3669 Voigt Drive
Borough:San Diego, California
Country:United States
Owned:San Diego Metropolitan Transit System
Operator:San Diego Trolley
Platforms:2 side platforms
Tracks:2
Structure:Elevated
Bicycle:24 lockers[1]
Code:77783, 77784[2]
Opened:[3]
Former:UCSD East/Voigt Drive station
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:14

UC San Diego Health La Jolla station is a San Diego Trolley station located on the UC San Diego East Campus, which includes the UC San Diego Health La Jolla campus of hospitals and medical facilities and the Preuss School. The station is elevated just south of Voigt Drive at Campus Point Drive.

A bridge directly connects the platform level with the Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla. The station is also within walking distance of the Jacobs Medical Center hospital, the Moores Cancer Center.[4]

It opened on November 21, 2021, as a new station on the Blue Line, constructed as part of the Mid-Coast Trolley extension project.[3] [5]

Station layout

There are two tracks, each served by a side platform.Below the station, there is also a FlixBus bus stop (La Jolla — UC San Diego), as well as bus stops for numerous UC San Diego campus shuttle routes.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Interactive San Diego Regional Bike Map . August 20, 2022 . San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG).
  2. Web site: Schedules & Real Time . November 21, 2021 . San Diego Metropolitan Transit System. May 14, 2015 .
  3. News: November 21, 2021 . It's finally here: Riders take first trips on trolley extension with 9 new stops . Fox 5 San Diego . San Diego . November 21, 2021.
  4. Web site: Voigt Drive Station (at UC San Diego East) to Executive Drive Station and UTC Transit Center (Terminus) . June 18, 2020 . San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG).
  5. Web site: Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project . San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) . April 17, 2016.