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The Orange Line's terminal at Midway International Airport. The Orange Line opened for service on October 31, 1993, and was the first all-new service in Chicago since the Dan Ryan Line opened in September 1969 and the first extension to the CTA system since the extension of the Blue Line to O'Hare International Airport in September 1984. But ...
This is a route-map template for the Orange Line (CTA), a rapid transit line in Chicago.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") [4] is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois.Operated by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), it is the fourth-largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length, at 102.8 miles (165.4 km) long as of 2014, [1] [note 1] and the third-busiest rapid ...
Green/Orange Line elevated platform. An elevated station at Roosevelt opened on June 6, 1892, as part of the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad, the first elevated rapid transit line in Chicago. [2] From 1919 to 1963, interurban trains of the North Shore Line also used the station. "L" service through the station was discontinued in ...
Chicago Replaced by Route 81A on July 3, 1953. 61 Archer/Franklin Express: Archer/Neva Merchandise Mart Daily Chicago Created November 25, 1979; discontinued on July 3, 1994 as most riders switched to the Orange Line to Midway. X62 Archer Express: Downtown 63rd/Cicero Daily Chicago
The Orange Line enters at Tower 12 on the southeast corner, and the Pink Line enters at Tower 18 on the northwest corner; both terminate by traveling clockwise around the Inner Loop before returning to their starting points. The Green Line is the only line to use Loop trackage but not terminate on it. Its trains run in both directions along the ...
Ashland is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Orange Line. It is located at the intersection of Ashland Avenue and 31st Street near the Stevenson Expressway. Although located within the Lower West Side community area, the station mostly serves the Bridgeport and McKinley Park neighborhoods.
Expansion resumed in September 1969 with the opening of a new line in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway and continued until October 31, 1993, with the opening of the Orange Line. [7] The newest line the Pink Line, which opened on June 25, 2006 was created by rerouting the Blue Line's Douglas branch into a separate service. [8]