Kane Street station
bus station in Connecticutt, US
Kane Street is a bus rapid transit station on the CTfastrak line, located near the intersection of Kane Street and New Park Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. It opened with the line on March 28, 2015. The station consists of two side platforms serving the busway, with two lanes passing in the center to allow express buses to pass buses stopped at the station.
The public source identifies “Kane Street station” as bus station in Connecticutt, US. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kane, Street and station.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14714969. Authority coordinates are 41.751, -72.709. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kane Street station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.