University Circle (RTA Rapid Transit station)

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University Circle
RTA Rapid Transit station

Station statistics

Address

11100 Cedar Glen Parkway
Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Coordinates

41°30′0″N, 81°36′19″W

Lines

Red Line

Connections

Bus # 7X (Monticello–Euclid Hts. Blvd.)
Bus # 8 (Cedar)
Bus # 9X (Mayfield)
Bus # 32X (Cedar)
Bus # 38 (Payne–Hough)
Bus # 42 (Fairmount)
Bus # 48 (University Circle–East 131st)
Bus # 48A (University Circle–
     East 131st)
Bus # 50 (East 116th–Harvard–
     West 117th)
Community Circulator # 821
     (University Circle/Heights Area)
Circle Link

Parking

None

Other information

Opened

March 15, 1955

Accessible

Owned by

Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority

Formerly

Cedar–University

University Circle is a station on the RTA Red Line in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The station is located in University Circle at the foot of Cedar Hill along Cedar Glen Parkway (which connects Cleveland's Cedar Avenue with Cleveland Heights' Cedar Road). It includes entrances on both sides of Cedar, with bus loading lanes along Cedar on each side. There is also a bus loop with loading area southwest of the station at the corner of Cedar Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.

The station also connects with Circle Link shuttle buses operated by Case Western Reserve University. The Circle Link buses stop at the corner of East 114th Street and Glenwood Avenue at the northern entrance to the station.

1 Notable places nearby
2 History
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Notable places nearby

[edit] History

The station opened along with the rest of the CTS Rapid Transit on March 15, 1955^[1] and was originally named "Cedar–University" or "University–Cedar" station, highlighting its connection with the bus lines that ran down Cedar Avenue from Cleveland Heights.