Scaleybark is a light rail station on the Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.A. The station officially opened for service on Saturday, November 24, 2007, and as part of its opening celebration fares were not collected. Regular service with fare collection commenced on Monday, November 26, 2007. Although it is named the Scaleybark station, it is actually located opposite Scaleybark Road across South Boulevard at its intersection with Old Pineville Road in a wide median. It has side platforms, which sit on either side of the tracks, and a 315-space commuter parking lot to the west across South Boulevard.Notable places nearbyScaleybark branch of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg CountyPublic artThe station features a public art display entitled Furrow, created by Raleigh artist Thomas Sayre. Sayre's original vision called for a disk near Clanton Road and three additional disks, ranging between to in height at Scaleybark.The shape of the sculpture resembles that of a plow's disk harrows, and is located at the ends of the median approaching the platform. The six disks each are in height and weigh in at 11 tons each. The materials utilized in the creation of the disks included 72 cubic yards of dirt excavated from the site of the I-485/South Boulevard station. The dirt was mixed with concrete tinted with iron oxide and applied to the steel discs in the Scaleybark parking lot. Each disc measures only in width, and have been engineered to withstand hurricane-force winds.
