Austin station (CTA Blue Line)
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| Location |
1050 South Austin Boulevard Oak Park, Illinois 60304 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°52′15″N 87°46′37″W / 41.870851°N 87.776812°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Chicago Transit Authority | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Surface Level | ||||||||||
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| Opened | March 20, 1960[1][2] | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2015) |
634,972[3]  0.6% (CTA) | ||||||||||
| Rank | 99 out of 143[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||
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Austin is a station on the 'L' system, serving the Blue Line's Forest Park branch. It is located below South Austin Boulevard in the Eisenhower Expressway in Oak Park, Illinois. The station has an auxiliary entrance/exit at Lombard Avenue. After CTA Blue Line trains pass the station, the CTA line splits away from the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad lines letting the CTA Blue Line to continue to Chicago afterwards.
Station layout
| G | Ground level | Entrance/Exit, station building |
| P Platform level |
Southbound | ← Blue Line toward Forest Park (Oak Park) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
| Northbound | → Blue Line toward O'Hare (Cicero) → | |
Bus connections
- 91 Austin
- 315 Austin/Ridgeland
Notes and references
Notes
- ↑ Due to possible double-counting of physically-connected stations, the CTA's official 2015 tally of stations was 146, but for ridership purposes reported having only 143 stations.
References
- ↑ "CTA to Open New Congress Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. W3.
- ↑ "Congress CTA on Permanent Right of Way". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 20, 1960. p. 25.
- ↑ "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2015" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 11, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
External links
Media related to Austin (CTA Blue Line) at Wikimedia Commons- Austin (Congress Line) Station Page
- Lombard Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
- Austin Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street View
A CTA train heads towards the Austin station in 1968 (then known as the Congress Branch instead of the Blue Line)
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