East 116th (RTA Rapid Transit station)

Infobox Station
name=East 116th
type=RTA light rail station


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address=2780 East 116th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44120
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other=Bus # 11 (Quincy)
Bus # 12 (Woodland)
Bus # 13 (Buckeye)
Bus # 50 (East 116th–Harvard–West 117th)
structure=Below grade
platform=Side platforms
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opened=April 11, 1920
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rebuilt=October 30, 1981
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East 116th is a station on the RTA Blue and Green Lines in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It is located at the intersection of East 116th Street and Shaker Boulevard.

The station comprises side platforms below grade in the median of Shaker Boulevard west of East 116th Street. Two concrete stairways with tinted acrylic glass canopies lead from the East 116th bridge over the tracks down to the platforms.

Notable places nearby

* Buckeye–Woodland neighborhood
* Benedictine High School

History

The station opened on April 11, 1920 when service commenced on the line west of Shaker Square to East 34th Street and via surface streets to downtown.cite book
last = Toman
first = James
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title = The Shaker Heights Rapid Transit
publisher = Interurban Press
date = 1990
location = Glendale, Cal.
pages = p. 22
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isbn = 0-916374-95-5 ]

In 1980 and 1981, the trunk line of the Green and Blue Lines from East 55th Street to Shaker Square was completely renovated with new track, ballast, poles and wiring, and new stations were built along the line. At East 116th station, new platforms and retaining walls were installed, and the wooden stairways were replaced by the present covered concrete stairways. The renovated line opened on October 30, 1981. [Toman (1990). p. 115.]

The station originally served St. Luke's Hospital which opened in 1927 on Shaker Boulevard just west of East 116th Street. The Hospital closed in April 1999.

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