page_title: List of Valley Metro Rail stations
section_title: Stations
hierarchical_section_title: List of Valley Metro Rail stations / Stations
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of the ASU Downtown Campus Station (or Central at Van Buren or simply Central Station) of METRO Light Rail that serves the Phoenix area, Arizona, USA. This is a photograph of the northbound platform. Visible in the right background is the Westward Ho building. This photograph was taken during the light rail's grand opening celebration on December 28, 2008.
context_page_description: Valley Metro Rail is a light rail transit system that serves the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona, United States. The light rail system, which operates under the Valley Metro brand name, has 38 stations and 26 miles of tracks within the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa. The system serves on average over 49,400 weekday riders as of 2016, making it one of the busiest light rail systems in the United States.
  Valley Metro Rail opened its initial 20-mile starter line on December 27, 2008. The starter line, which was funded through a combination of federal, regional and local municipal funds, operated from the 19th Avenue/Montebello station in Phoenix, through Tempe, serving the Arizona State University Tempe campus, and ended at the Sycamore/Main Street station in Mesa. The starter line provided service to 28 stations in total, which were primarily located on-street at the intersections of major arterial roads every 0.5 miles, although mid-block stations are common in areas of higher urban density. On April 8, 2013, the PHX Sky Train people mover opened, providing direct service from the 44th Street/Washington station to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
caption: Van Buren/Central Avenue and Van Buren/1st Avenue station is a side platform split-station, with one platform located on Central Avenue and one platform on 1st Avenue.
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