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RTA Rapid Transit
RTA Rapid Transit (generally known as The Rapid) is a rapid transit and light rail system owned and operated by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA). The system serves Cleveland and surrounding areas in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. The system currently consists of four total service lines: one rapid transit rail line and three light rail lines. Rail lines The four rail lines join at Tower City Center in downtown Cleveland, on the platform level of the former Cleveland Union Terminal. Three rail lines share their tracks at Tri-C–Campus District station, Tri-C–Campus District and East 55th station, East 55th stations. This sharing of one route by light and heavy rail trains is quite unusual. The shared stations have connected railway platform, platforms of two heights to accommodate the two kinds of trains. And the two types of trains both use the same maintenance facility since they both use the same track gauge and same source of power (overh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Cuyahoga County ( or , see ) is a large urban County (United States), county located in the Northeast Ohio, northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. The county seat and most populous city is Cleveland. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 1,264,817, making it the List of counties in Ohio, second-most populous county in the state. Cuyahoga County is situated on the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the Canada–United States border, U.S.–Canada maritime border. The county is bisected by the Cuyahoga River, after which it was List of Ohio county name etymologies, named. "Cuyahoga" is an Iroquoian languages, Iroquoian word meaning "crooked river". It is the core county of the Greater Cleveland, Cleveland, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area and Northeast Ohio#Combined Statistical Area, Cleveland–Akron–Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area. History The land that became Cuyahoga County was previously part of the French colony of New France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tri-C–Campus District Station
Tri-C–Campus District station is a station on the RTA Rapid Transit system in Cleveland, Ohio, serving the Red, Blue, and Green Lines. It is located just east of East 34th Street near the intersection of East 34th and Broadway, on the north side of the CSX railway tracks, and below the bridge that carries East 34th Street over the railway tracks. ''Tri-C'' refers to Cuyahoga Community College. The station is somewhat unusual in that it combines a high-level platform rapid transit station with a low-level platform light rail station. The low-level island platform is located on the northwestern end of the station adjacent to East 34th Street, and the high-level island platform extends southeastward from it. Both the light rail and the heavy rail subway cars share the station. East 34th and East 55th are the only stations on the Blue/Green Line, other than downtown's Tower City station, to utilize an island platform. Therefore, due to the fare collection procedure used on the Blu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio State Route 8
State Route 8 (SR 8) is a road in the United States, U.S. state of Ohio. SR 8 stretches from the eastern junction of Interstate 76 (Ohio), Interstate 76 (I-76) and Interstate 77 (Ohio), I-77 in Akron, Ohio, Akron to Public Square, Cleveland, Public Square in Cleveland. It is one of nine routes to enter downtown Cleveland at Public Square. The route's first few miles are as a limited-access freeway from I-76 and I-77, heading north. The freeway section of the highway has 17 interchanges, and is cosigned with State Route 59 (Ohio), SR 59 for approximately from Perkins Street in Akron to Front Street in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Cuyahoga Falls. The freeway section ends at Interstate 271, I-271 in Macedonia, Ohio, Macedonia. Route description SR 8 begins at an interchange with I-76 and I-77 southeast of downtown Akron. The Akron Expressway, as the freeway is known within the city limits, heads up the east side of Akron. SR 8's first interchange is the main access to the central busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrensville–Van Aken Station
Warrensville–Van Aken station (signed as Warrensville) is a station on the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, RTA light rail Blue Line (Cleveland), Blue Line in Shaker Heights, Ohio. It is the eastern terminal station, terminus of the Blue Line. Unlike most of the stations in Shaker Heights, Warrensville–Van Aken is located off street, not in the median of Van Aken Boulevard. It is located in a block surrounded by Chagrin Boulevard (U.S. Route 422), Van Aken Boulevard, and Northfield Road (Ohio State Route 8) and Tuttle Road in the midst of a dense retail/commercial area. The station is located one block west of Warrensville Center Road, after which it named. History The station opened when the Van Aken line was extended east from Lynnfield (RTA Rapid Transit station), Lynnfield Road. The extension opened on July 30, 1930 at the same time that trains began using Cleveland Union Terminal. The station originally included a rail yard, car yard with a reverse U Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
