| Aurora Transportation Center | |||||||||||
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| Address | 233 North Broadway Aurora, Illinois |
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| Connections | Pace, Greyhound | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 Side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1986 | ||||||||||
| Accessible | |||||||||||
| Owned by | City of Aurora | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | H | ||||||||||
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The Aurora Transportation Center is a station on Metra's BNSF Railway Line in Aurora, Illinois. The station is 38.4 miles (61.8 km) from Union Station, the east end of the line.[1] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Aurora is in zone H. There is a staffed station building.
Aurora is the west end of the BNSF Railway Line and is served by numerous Pace bus routes. It also serves as a Greyhound bus stop, but Amtrak trains do not stop.
The station replaced the former Aurora Train Station, at the corners of South Broadway and Washington Street (see picture below). That station was smaller with considerably less parking area, but Amtrak trains as well as Metra trains stopped here. The station opened in the early 1900s and closed in the mid-1980s. The building is considered by many an architectural landmark, but also an example of urban blight in Aurora.
Aurora is a stub-track terminal, which means the Metra tracks actually stop here. Amtrak and BNSF freights use the two tracks east of the station.
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