Main (CTA station)

Main
Location 836 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60202
Coordinates 42°02′00″N 87°40′45″W / 42.03333°N 87.67925°W
Owned by Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Connections CTA bus, Metra
Construction
Structure type Elevated
History
Opened May 16, 1908
Rebuilt 1909
Traffic
Passengers (2014) 403,441[1] Increase 5.6%
Rank 124 out of 143[lower-alpha 1]
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station
toward Linden
Purple Line
toward Howard or The Loop
Metra
toward Kenosha
Union Pacific North
toward Ogilvie
Route map
Legend

Purple Line
north to Linden

Main St.

Washington St.

Purple Line
south to Howard or Loop

Main is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line at 836 Chicago Avenue in Evanston, Illinois (directional coordinates 900 north, 732 west). It is near the Main Street stop of Metra's Union Pacific/North Line.

The current station has been in place since 1908, with only little renovation to the station since then, most notably a 90 foot extension of the platform in 1997 so that a motorman in the front car could see all doors stopped at the station (the platform had curved at one end previously). Main is one of the stations on the CTA's 2004-2008 Capital Improvement Plan.

Bus and rail connections

CTA

Metra

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Due to possible double-counting of physically-connected stations, the CTA's official 2014 tally of stations was 145, but for ridership purposes reported having only 143 stations.

References

  1. ↑ "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2014" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. March 5, 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.

External links

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