Fairview Heights station (MetroLink)
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Fairview Heights | ||||||||||||||||
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MetroLink light rail station | ||||||||||||||||
Location | 9200 Saint Clair Avenue Fairview Heights, Illinois 62208 | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°35′37″N 90°02′52″W / 38.593617°N 90.047835°WCoordinates: 38°35′37″N 90°02′52″W / 38.593617°N 90.047835°W | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Bi-State Development Agency | |||||||||||||||
Operated by | Metro Transit | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Connections | ![]() | |||||||||||||||
Construction | ||||||||||||||||
Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||
Parking | 853 park and ride spaces 45 long-term spaces | |||||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | May 5, 2001[1] | |||||||||||||||
Passengers | ||||||||||||||||
2007 | 1,380 ![]() | |||||||||||||||
Services | ||||||||||||||||
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Fairview Heights is a St. Louis MetroLink station in Fairview Heights, Illinois, on Illinois Route 161. This station is the eastern terminus of the Blue Line. The station is located where IL 161 makes a sharp right turn off of Saint Claire Avenue, with entrances to the parking lot leading both from Third Avenue and Lynn Lee Court.
Station layout[]
P Platform level |
Westbound | ← Blue Line toward Shrewsbury – Lansdowne (Washington Park) ← Red Line toward Lambert Airport (Washington Park) |
Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
Eastbound | Red Line toward Shiloh – Scott (Memorial Hospital) → Blue Line termination track → | |
Street level | Exit/entrance, parking, buses |
References[]
- ^ Leiser, Ken (April 30, 2001). "MetroLink Extension Opens This Weekend With Parking to Spare". The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. A9. Retrieved April 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
External links[]
Categories:
- St. Clair County Transit District
- MetroLink stations in St. Clair County, Illinois
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 2001
- Red Line (St. Louis MetroLink)
- Blue Line (St. Louis MetroLink)
- Metro Transit (St. Louis) stubs
- Illinois railway station stubs