Louis Stokes Station at Windermere

Louis Stokes Station

at Windermere
Louis Stokes Station; ; at Windermere
	Lower level of Louis Stokes Station at Windermere
General information
Location	14233 Euclid Avenue ; East Cleveland, Ohio
Coordinates	41°31′50″N81°35′6″W / 41.53056°N 81.58500°W
Owned by	Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
Line(s)	NS Lake Erie District
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	HealthLine ; RTA: 3, 7, 7A, 28, 28A, 31, 35, 37, 41, 41F
Construction
Structure type	Embankment
Parking	410 spaces
Bicycle facilities	Racks
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Website	riderta.com/facilities/windermere
History
Opened	March 15, 1955;69 years ago
Rebuilt	1997
Previous names	Windermere
Original company	Cleveland Transit System
Services
Location
Location

Last updated September 09, 2024

Louis Stokes Station at Windermere is a rapid transit station on the RTA Red Line in East Cleveland, Ohio. It is located on the northwest side of Euclid Avenue (U.S. Routes 6 and 20) between Bryn Mawr and Doan Roads. It is the eastern terminus of the Red Line and the HealthLine, a bus rapid transit route.

History

Prior to being a rapid transit station, the site was the location of the Windermere Car Barn of the Cleveland Railway and its successor, the Cleveland Transit System (CTS). As streetcars were retired in favor of buses, Windermere also became a bus garage.

On February 4, 1952, CTS broke ground for its rapid transit behind the Windermere Car Barn,^[4] on the same embankment as the Nickel Plate railway tracks. The new station, called simply "Windermere Station," opened with the CTS Rapid Transit on March 15, 1955.^[5]

As originally constructed, the station included on the embankment level a car yard and car shops for rapid transit and a loop to allow trains to turn around if needed (although the car sets all had operator cabs are both ends). On the south side below the tracks, there was a fare collection headhouse, three bus loading loops and a small free parking lot off Euclid Avenue, along with an elevated walkway over the bus loops to the Euclid Avenue parking lot. A pedestrian tunnel beneath the embankment carrying rapid transit and railway tracks connected the station to a larger free parking lot on the northwest side of the tracks. The entrance to the northwest parking lot was from Hayden Avenue. The Hayden bus garage was also built adjacent to the northwest lot to replace the Windermere Car Barn.

The Windermere car shops were abandoned when RTA opened its new $23-million Central Rail Maintenance Facility opened on April 29, 1984, on a 20-acre (8.1 ha) site at East 55th Street.^[4] The Hayden parking lot also closed as the additional parking was not needed and most passengers perceived use of the tunnel as a security risk.

The original station was demolished, and an entirely new station was constructed as part of RTA's program of station reconstruction beginning in the late 1990s. The new $12.7-million station opened on June 22, 1997.^[6] The turnaround loop and the car shops were eliminated. In November 1997, RTA renamed the station “Louis Stokes Station at Windermere” in honor of the Congressman Louis Stokes “for his many years of unwavering support.”^[4] In 1998, RTA completed a $21-million renovation of the Hayden bus garage.^[4]

The property directly southwest of the Euclid Avenue parking area has been used for the construction of a Head Start Center, which was dedicated November 22, 2002.^[7] It was the first Head Start Center in Greater Cleveland built next to a rapid transit station, making the facility accessible for many of the families eligible for Head Start who do not have cars.

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References

↑ "Red Line Schedule" (PDF). Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority . December 11, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
↑ "NOACA 2007 Transit Network Guide, Park-and-Ride Inventory/Survey". Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency. August 2008. p. 30.
1 2 "Louis Stokes / Windermere Rapid Station". Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority . Retrieved May 8, 2023.
1 2 3 4 "About RTA: History of Public Transit in Greater Cleveland". RTA Website. Archived from the original on June 23, 2007. Retrieved June 3, 2007.
↑ Exner, Rich (March 14, 2005). "Red Line rapid marks 50 years in service". The Plain Dealer . p. A1. Retrieved June 2, 2007.
↑ "RTA's Red Line Rail Service to Operate from New Windermere Station" (Press release). Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. June 20, 1997. Archived from the original on October 4, 2007. Retrieved June 7, 2007.
↑ Perkins, Olivia (November 23, 2002). "Unique site to help put kids on track Head Start opens at RTA train stop". The Plain Dealer . p. B1. Retrieved June 2, 2007.

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[1] "Red Line Schedule" (PDF). Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority . December 11, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2023.

[2] "NOACA 2007 Transit Network Guide, Park-and-Ride Inventory/Survey". Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency. August 2008. p. 30.

[RTA_station_page-3] 1 2 "Louis Stokes / Windermere Rapid Station". Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority . Retrieved May 8, 2023.

[RTA_History-4] 1 2 3 4 "About RTA: History of Public Transit in Greater Cleveland". RTA Website. Archived from the original on June 23, 2007. Retrieved June 3, 2007.

[5] Exner, Rich (March 14, 2005). "Red Line rapid marks 50 years in service". The Plain Dealer . p. A1. Retrieved June 2, 2007.

[6] "RTA's Red Line Rail Service to Operate from New Windermere Station" (Press release). Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. June 20, 1997. Archived from the original on October 4, 2007. Retrieved June 7, 2007.

[7] Perkins, Olivia (November 23, 2002). "Unique site to help put kids on track Head Start opens at RTA train stop". The Plain Dealer . p. B1. Retrieved June 2, 2007.

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