Executive Drive (San Diego Trolley Blue Line)

Executive Drive is the penultimate stop on the San Diego Trolley Blue Line. The station is located on a concrete arial structure with central support beams leading to the median of Genessee Avenue.The station is designed to service a number of office buildings in the immediate area just north of the UTC shopping center.

The station has two side platforms for the two track trolley line, each with two modern shelters that are designed to cover an area at what is towards the front of the train on each platform, and about one car south. These platforms are each connected by pedestrian grade-crossings at each end of the platforms.

To leave the station, each platform has two exits all leading down to the 4 corners of the intersection of Genesee Street and Executive Square which are basically wide driveways into the surrounding office park buildings. From the UTC-bound platform is a walkway to a staircase down to the SW corner and walkway to a staircase and glass enclosed bank of two elevators down to the NW corner.

From the San Ysidro-bound platform is a walkway to a staircase down to the NE corner, and a walkway to a staircase and glass elevator to the SE corner. This staircase is unusual because it has an intermediate landing that connects to a pedestrian bridge that has existed since at least the 1990s (it’s in a satellite image from 1994) that leads past the parking garage of an office building, before continuing across La Jolla Village drive to the northern end of the Westfield UTC Mall. This means a passenger could get from this station to the UTC Station one stop south without crossing a street via pedestrian bridges.

This pedestrian bridge used to continue across Genesee Street to the office building by the SW corner of the station entrance, with the trolley station replacing this former pedestrian bridge. The intersection of Genesee Street and Executive Drive lacks sidewalks to cross Genesee Street with signs on the street saying to Use Over Crossing or cross via passing through the trolley station (it’s ambiguous if this violates the San Diego Trolley’s proof-of-payment fare policy that “Within this station you must have a valid ticket or pass or be in the process of purchasing one.”
Photos 1-33: July 25, 2022

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