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Green Road station

Green Road
GCRTA wordmark logo.svg  Green Line  light rail station
Green Road Cleveland RTA station.jpg
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)
Platforms 2 Side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections

GCRTA wordmark logo.svg Bus transport 34 (Weekdays)

GCRTA wordmark logo.svg Bus transport 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.
Other information
Website Green Road Rapid Station
History
Opened 1936
Rebuilt October 11, 1980, 1998
Services
Preceding station   GCRTA wordmark logo.svg Rapid Transit   Following station
Shaker Boulevard
toward Tower City
Green Line Terminus
Former services
Preceding station   GCRTA wordmark logo.svg Rapid Transit   Following station
Shaker
Line
1975-1978
Terminus
Shaker Heights Rapid Transit
Shaker
Line
1944-1975
Terminus
Cleveland Interurban Railroad
Shaker
Division
1936-1944
Terminus

GCRTA wordmark logo.svg Bus transport 34 (Weekdays)

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.


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