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. The system serves Cleveland and surrounding areas in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It consists of four total service lines: one rapid transit rail line and three light 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 and East 55th stations. This sharing of one route by light and heavy rail trains is quite unusual. The shared stations have connected 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 (overhead catenary).

The Red Line, a heavy-rail route, runs in both directions on fully grade-separated rights-of-way built from 1955 to 1968. It serves Cleveland's southwest suburbs, with its southwestern terminus at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. Heading northeast, the Red Line serves University Circle before heading to its northeastern terminus at the Louis Stokes Station at Windermere in East Cleveland.

The Blue and Green light-rail lines (alternatively known as the RTA Shaker Rapid) were built from 1913 to 1936 as grade-separated lines closer to downtown and surface lines along street medians in the streetcar suburb of Shaker Heights.

The two lines diverge at Shaker Square, a historic mixed-use community in Cleveland proper, just west of the Shaker Heights border. The Blue Line veers southeast along Van Aken Boulevard until reaching its terminus near the intersection of Warrensville Center Road and Chagrin Boulevard (U.S. Route 422 and State Route 8). The Green Line continues due east along Shaker Boulevard (State Route 87) until reaching its terminus at the intersection of Green Road.

The Waterfront Line, opened in 1996, extends the Blue and Green Lines from Tower City north through The Flats. It then travels northeast along the shoreline of Lake Erie, servicing the local Amtrak station and terminates at the Lakefront Municipal lot. The Waterfront light rail line provides access from Tower City Center to the Flats, Cleveland Browns Stadium, the Great Lakes Science Center, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Burke Lakefront Airport.

Das RTA-Schnellverkehrssystem besteht aus insgesamt 47 Stationen. ^{[ 4 ]} Die Stationen befinden sich ganz oder teilweise innerhalb der Stadtgrenzen von Cleveland , Shaker Heights , East Cleveland und Brook Park .

Hinweis: Die Station Euclid–East 120th Street wurde 2015 geschlossen und durch die Station Little Italy–University Circle ersetzt.

• Liste der U-Bahn-Systeme
• Liste der Stadtbahnsysteme
• Liste der Schienenverkehrssysteme in den Vereinigten Staaten
• Liste der Bahnhöfe in Ohio

• Regionalverkehrsbehörde von Greater Cleveland – Fahrpläne und Karten
• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Nr. OH-4, „ Shaker Heights Rapid Transit Line, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH “, 18 Fotos, 15 Datenseiten, 2 Bildunterschriftenseiten
• Jon Bell – Cleveland, Ohio: Verkehrsverbindungen
• Cleveland, Ohio – Schnellbahn (RTA)
• nycsubway.org – Cleveland, Ohio
• Standorte des RTA-Schnellverkehrs
• Eisenbahnmuseum von Nord-Ohio