Wood Dale station

Wood Dale
Wood Dale
Location	199 Division Street; Wood Dale, Illinois
Coordinates	41°57′45″N 87°58′31″W / 41.9624°N 87.9752°WCoordinates: 41°57′45″N 87°58′31″W / 41.9624°N 87.9752°W
Owned by	Metra
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	D
History
Opened	1930
Rebuilt	1946, 2012
Passengers
2018	596 (average weekday) 4.5%
Rank	83 out of 236
Services
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Wood Dale is a station on Metra's Milwaukee District/West in Wood Dale, Illinois. The station is 19.1 miles (30.7 km) away from Union Station, the eastern terminus of the line.^[2] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Wood Dale is in zone D. As of 2018, Wood Dale is the 83rd busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 596 weekday boardings.^[1]

History[]

The station was opened in 1930.^{[citation needed]} Sixteen years later, the station was rebuilt.^{[citation needed]} In 1992, METRA funded a 149 space expansion of the commuter parking lot.^[3] That same year, the station became part of the first PACE Bus route to be subsidized by METRA.^[4] In 2004, a man was struck and killed near the station while taking a shortcut to work.^[5] In 2009, the city began construction of a new station as part of a larger transit-oriented development strategy. The new prairie style station was completed in 2012.^[6]^[7]