State Street Station (Illinois)
State Street is the first station along the Blue Island Branch of the Metra Electric line in the West Pullman, Chicago, West Pullman neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station is officially located at State Street, South of 120th Place (though in reality runs along the median of 121st Street), and is away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station. In Metra's zone-based fare system, State Street is in zone 2. , State Street is the 214th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 41 weekday boardings. A station typology adopted by the Chicago Plan Commission on October 16, 2014, assigns the State Street typology of ''Low Density Neighborhood''. The station is surrounded primarily by residential uses. Most riders walk or bike to the station. There is no commuter parking lot for this station, but there is still parking near the station. Bus connections List of Chicago Transit Authority bus routes, CTA * 34 South Michigan (Owl Service) References ...
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Metra is the commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. The system operates 242 stations on 11 rail lines. It is the fourth busiest commuter rail system in the United States by ridership and the largest and busiest commuter rail system outside the New York City metropolitan area. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . The estimated busiest day for Metra ridership occurred on November 4, 2016—the day of the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series victory rally. Metra is the descendant of numerous commuter rail services dating to the 1850s. The present system dates to 1974, when the Illinois General Assembly established the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to consolidate all public transit operations in the Chicago area, including commuter rail. The RTA's creation was a result of the anticipated failure of commuter se ...
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