Irving Park (CTA Blue Line station)

See also: Irving Park (CTA Brown Line)
Irving Park
Station statistics
Address 4131 West Irving Park Road
Chicago, Illinois 60641
Lines
  Blue Line
Connections
  Union Pacific/Northwest
CTA Buses
Structure Elevated
Platforms 1 Island platform
Tracks 2
Bicycle facilities Yes
Other information
Opened February 1, 1970
Owned by Chicago Transit Authority
Traffic
Passengers (2009) 1,200,865[1]  1.6% (CTA)
Services
Preceding station   Chicago 'L'   Following station
toward O'Hare
 Blue Line
Metra
toward Harvard or McHenry
 Union Pacific/Northwest
Transfer at: Irving Park
toward Ogilvie

Irving Park is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Blue Line. The station is located in the median of the Kennedy Expressway in the Irving Park neighborhood. Irving Park is one of two stations that stops in a highway median where the entrance is below the platform; Rosemont is the other. The station opened in 1970 as a part of the Kennedy extension of the Milwaukee Elevated from Logan Square to Jefferson Park.

Bus and rail connections

Metra

CTA

References

  1. ^ "Rail Ridership by Branch and Entrance: December 2009" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority. http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/ridership_reports/2009-12.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 

External links

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