Smith Road station
Pittsburgh Light Rail station
Smith Road station is a stop on the Pittsburgh Light Rail network, operated by Pittsburgh Regional Transit, serving Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania. It is a street-level stop consisting of two low-level side platforms for boarding and is not accessible.
Smith Road was originally among 13 stops proposed for discontinuation on June 25, 2012, as part of a service consolidation intended to reduce travel times. However, the closure of Smith Road was not implemented.
In May 2024, the Federal Transit Administration awarded Pittsburgh Regional Transit $8 million to construct accessible platforms at ten Red Line stops, including Smith Road.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Smith Road station” is pittsburgh Light Rail station. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Smith, Road and station, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15278244. Authority coordinates are 40.357, -80.029. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2024.
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This entry incorporates text from “Smith Road 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.