Edmonton Transit Service University Transit Centre

Opened	Unknown
Location	89 Ave/ 113 St
LRT Lines Served	Capital and Metro Line
Platform	2 Lane, One Island
Passenger Access
Park and Ride	No
1978

The University Transit Centre is located on the University of Alberta main campus. The current transit centre was built as part of the LRT extension to University Station that opened on August 23, 1992, and features a single lane, bus only road that originates at 114 St/ 89 Ave. At about the LRT Southwest entrance, the roadway splits into 2 lanes with an island platform in between, separating the transit centre into Lane A and Lane B, with Lane B being the southern lane. Routes that use University as a through location on their route will have each direction split between the 2 platforms. Exiting the transit centre onto 112 St the lane is briefly about 1 lane wide, before widening where buses again sharing the road with regular traffic, although the road remains 1 way until 88 Ave were 112 St becomes bi-directional again. There is a brick and concrete passenger shelter located about 2 bus lengths West of 112 St along Lane B, while the main entrance to University Station with a connection to Hub Mall is located north of Lane A. The Lane A island also featured 3 unique bus shelters towards the West end. They were the same as the Kaskitayo shelters. Aluminum, but painted brown and with a tinted dome roof. These were removed sometime after 2017.
While ETS makes use of Lane A and B, there is a 3rd bus stop that is used by commuter buses. This is located adjacent to the Southwest LRT entrance.
Prior to the reconfiguration as a dedicated transit centre for ETS, 89 Ave was a 4 lane bi-directional road that buses shared with regular traffic. From aerial images, it looks like buses might have made use of the full length of 89 Ave between 112 St and 114 St. For the Eastbound direction there was a passenger shelter at about the same location as the Southwest LRT entrance is today, and for Westbound the passenger shelter opposite the centre of St. Joseph's College.
In 1957 there was only 1 route that went anywhere near 89 Ave, with the route 6 trolley coach down at the U of A Hospital. By 1974 there were 8 routes, and by 1980 there were 16. This had grown to 18 routes in 1996, but reduced to 12 in the early years of Horizon 2000, peaking at 14 routes post Horizon 2000 before the SLRT extension to South Campus which would reduce the number of routes to 9 routes, really only 8 because the 57 was a stub variant of the 57. This excluded the 197 to Spruce Grove as well as St. Albert and Strathcona.
Today, in the BNR era, there are 8 routes plus St. Albert 203 and 204 and Strathcona 404 and 414.
To allow for construction of the LRT extension in the 1990's, the transit centre was temporarily located to a location Southwest of 87 Ave and 114 St in the Jubilee Auditorium's parking lot. Reportedly, the U of A administration would have preferred to have kept the bus terminal at this location.
From 2020-2022 Lane A was closed to provide space to assist with construction at the Dentistry/Pharmacy building. To support this, ETS used the full length of Lane B, and the commuter buses were relocated to a small parking lot/ taxi zone between 88 and 89 Ave along 112 St.
Aside from St. Albert and Strathcona County Transit, a short lived Leduc Transit service operated by Red Arrow coaches ran to University. The original Spruce Grove routing originated at the University. The Camrose Connector terminated here during it's existence. I seem to recall that the U of A's Campus Saint Jean shuttle also used the transit centre at one point in time.

Original Configuration, bi-directional shared
Westbound stop with 634 working a route 46. This is a bit of a rare scene. Delivered that year, the 1976 buses were the first with the front 2 piece number sign, 1 main destination sign which coincided with Edmonton Transit's rebranding and replacing the numbered and letter/ number routes with only numbered routes. The final conversion occurred in December 1976, so this change at University was only a month or so away. November 3, 1976.
LRT Configuration, uni-directional bus exclusive
Looking northeast towards the main LRT entrance with buses on Lane A. 2003	Looking Southeast towards the Southwest LRT entrance and commuter bus stop. 2006	Buses converging on University at 114 St right were it turns onto 89 Ave. September 4, 2007	Unique bus stops at the West end of Lane A.	SCT 8005 at the temporary commuter stop on 112 St.
Passenger shelter along Lane B, with departures board. December 31, 2020	Temporary commuter stop alongside 112 St.	SCT 8012 at the temporary commuter stop along 112 St. This now has a new style sign for the BNR rollout, and has been assigned Bay C.