Green Road (RTA Rapid Transit station)

Green Road
Green Line  light rail station
Location	22900 Shaker Boulevard Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122
Coordinates	41°28′43″N 81°31′4″W / 41.47861°N 81.51778°W / 41.47861; -81.51778Coordinates: 41°28′43″N 81°31′4″W / 41.47861°N 81.51778°W / 41.47861; -81.51778
Owned by	Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
Line(s)	Green Line
Platforms	2 Side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	RTA Bus: 34 (Weekdays), 94
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	810 short term, 10 long term (including West Green)
Disabled access	Since renovation of the station in 2001, the station is accessible by means of wheelchair ramps on the loading platforms.
History
Opened	1936
Rebuilt	1980, 1998
Services
Preceding station   Rapid Transit   Following station West Green toward South Harbor Green Line Terminus
Location

Green Road Station is a station on the aptly named-Green Line of the RTA Rapid Transit in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It is the eastern terminus of the Green Line.

The station is located below street level in the enlarged median of Shaker Boulevard at the intersection of Green Road in Shaker Heights. The station includes a large open parking area which extends to West Green Station.

When Shaker Boulevard east of Warrensville Center Road was laid out by the Van Sweringen Brothers in the 1920s, it included a broad median strip with room for four rapid transit tracks as well as a high-speed automobile parkway. The rapid transit right-of-way extended along Shaker Boulevard to Brainard Road and from there along Gates Mills Boulevard all the way to near Mayfield Road, where it ended in a large loop suitable for use as a streetcar yard.

The Shaker Boulevard line of the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit was expanded one mile east from Warrensville Center Road to Green Road in 1936. The extension was originally a single track using rails and poles from a scrapped interurban line. A loop was provided east of Green Road for the cars to reverse direction. A second track was added to the extension in 1942, when increased ridership during World War II made single-track operation no longer feasible.

RTA took over operation of the Shaker Rapid Transit from the City of Shaker Heights on September 5, 1975, and in 1978 it adopted the designation Green Line for the Shaker Boulevard line, the color green being selected because the line terminated at Green Road.

There have been various proposals to extend the line east from Green Road. Until 1988, bridges were already in place over the right-of-way at Richmond Road and Interstate 271, and poles had been erected along much of the right-of-way decades earlier. One plan, made in 1955 when the line was still owned by the City of Shaker Heights, involved extending it to the Sulgrave Road on the Shaker Heights/Beachwood border or even to Brainard Circle in Pepper Pike, but the city had little money at the time to implement such a proposal.

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