Laramie station (CTA Green Line)
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Laramie | |||||||||||
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| Location | 5148 West Lake Street Chicago, Illinois 60644 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°53′14″N 87°45′18″W / 41.887163°N 87.754986°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Chicago Transit Authority | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 Side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 tracks | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | April 29, 1894 | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1899, 1996 | ||||||||||
| Previous names | 52nd Avenue | ||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||
| 2015 | 456,044[1]  2% | ||||||||||
| Rank | 115 out of 143[a] | ||||||||||
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Laramie is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Green Line and the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. It opened on April 29, 1894 as a terminus of the Lake Street Elevated Railroad. It is the first station above Lake Street as the line follows an elevated embankment to Harlem/Lake.
Bus connections
- 57 Laramie
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
- ^ "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2015" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. January 11, 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
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