East 105th–Quincy station is a station on the RTA
Red Line in
Cleveland
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, Ohio. It is located in the
Fairfax neighborhood on the city's east side. The station has a small entrance on the north side of Quincy Avenue.
History
The station opened on March 15, 1955, as one of the original stations on the CTS Rapid Transit. The original station, which had an entrance on the east side of East 105th Street, lasted almost 50 years.
On January 11, 2005, RTA broke ground for a reconstruction of the station. The station was relocated just west of the original station at East 105th and includes an entrance on Quincy Avenue. The new $1.3 million station opened on November 4, 2005.
Until a 2017–2018 renovation project, the platform at the station was substantially shorter than platforms at other stations on The Red Line as well as shorter than the train itself. Therefore,
selective door operation
Selective door operation (SDO), also known as selective door opening, is a mechanism employed primarily on trains (although buses with multiple doors also generally have this feature) that allows the driver or conductor/guard to open the doors ...
was used; only the first door in the first car adjacent to the operator cab opened while at the platform, requiring detraining passengers to walk to the front of the first car to disembark while passengers who are boarding could only do so through the same one door.
From 2017 to 2019, a renovation project was undertaken to add a second entrance on East 105th Street, which had been planned for after a new bridge was built on East 105th Street. The project resulted in extending the platform to fit the full length of a three-car train. The East 105th entrance opened on April 5, 2019. Station renovations with the reconstruction of the Quincy entrance were completed on June 15, 2019.
Station signage referred to the station as Quincy–East 105th until renovations and expansion were completed.
Station photos
File:East 105th Cleveland RTA station.jpg, The entrance on Quincy Avenue, built in 2005
File:Platform at E. 105th-Quincy, looking east (40759771413).jpg, East 105th–Quincy station platform
Notable places nearby
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Karamu House
Karamu House in the Fairfax neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is the oldest producing Black Theatre in the United States opening in 1915. Many of Langston Hughes's plays were developed and premiered at the theate ...
References
External links
E. 105 – Quincy Rapid Station (GCRTA)
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Red Line (RTA Rapid Transit)
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1955
Fairfax, Cleveland
1955 establishments in Ohio