West Park station explained

West Park
Style:RTA Rapid Transit
Address:14510 Lorain Road
Borough:Cleveland, Ohio
Coordinates:41.4569°N -81.7928°W
Owned:Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
Line:NS Chicago Line
Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Connections: RTA: 22, 83, 86[1]
Structure:At-grade
Parking:351 spaces[2]
Bicycle:Racks[3]
Accessible: Yes
Rebuilt:1996
Original:Cleveland Transit System
Other Services Header:Former services
Other Services Collapsible:yes
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail-metro
Zoom:15
Location State:collapsed

West Park station is a station on the RTA Red Line in Cleveland, Ohio. It is located off Lorain Avenue just west of West 143rd Street in the West Park neighborhood.

The station includes a large parking lot accessible from Lorain Avenue. The access road has been named Lloyd Peterson Lane. A station lobby building is located on the southeast side of the parking lot adjacent to the tracks. The station headhouse includes bus loading areas and also houses a training facility, which opened in 1983.[4] The headhouse is connected to the platforms by a tunnel extending underneath the westbound track.

History

The CTS Rapid Transit was extended to West Park station on November 15, 1958, and the station functioned as the western terminus of the line for ten years. There was a small rail yard just southwest of the station. When the line was extended to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in 1968, the yard was removed, and a new yard was built just beyond Brookpark station. The station building was connected to the platform by a tunnel extending under the westbound track.

In May 1996, RTA completed a $4-million renovation of the station that made it accessible to people with disabilities.

Station layout

P
Platform level
Street levelEntrance/exit, station house, buses, parking
Chicago LineNS freight service
Westbound← toward
Eastbound toward
Chicago Line← NS freight service, services do not stop here
← NS freight service, services do not stop here →
NS freight service, services do not stop here →
TTunnelConnection between station house and platform

Notable places nearby

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: December 11, 2022 . Red Line Schedule . May 8, 2023 . Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
  2. Web site: August 2008 . NOACA 2007 Transit Network Guide, Park-and-Ride Inventory/Survey . Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency . 30.
  3. Web site: West Park Rapid Station . May 8, 2023 . Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
  4. Web site: About RTA: History of Public Transit in Greater Cleveland . June 3, 2007 . RTA Website.