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	Cleveland Rapid Transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cleveland Rapid Transit (generally known as The Rapid) is the name of the rail rapid-transit system in Cleveland, Ohio, owned by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
		The Red Line is a rapid transit line from Hopkins International Airport to the southwest of downtown to Windermere in East Cleveland to the northeast.
		They are all that remains of Cleveland's once-extensive streetcar system, though the lines currently run modern light rail equipment rather than PCC cars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cleveland_Rapid_Transit (412 words)

	Cleveland Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The city of Cleveland is the county seat of Cuyahoga County in the U.S state of Ohio.
		On the southern shore of Lake Erie, Cleveland is located in the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border.
		Cleveland is the corporate headquarters of many large companies such as National City Corporation, Eaton Corporation, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Sherwin Williams Company, and KeyCorp which the highest skyscraper in Cleveland is named after (Key Tower).
	www.wikiverse.org /cleveland-ohio (1055 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cleveland Rapid Transit
		The Red Line is a heavy rail metro that runs from Hopkins International Airport to the southwest of downtown to Windermere to the northeast.
		The Blue and Green Lines are light rail lines that run from downtown Cleveland into the eastern part of the city.
		The Blue and Green Lines were recently extended along Cleveland's burgeoning downtown lakeside district; the extension is generally referred to as the Waterfront Line, though it is not run as a separate line in the system.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cleveland-Rapid-Transit (447 words)

	ipedia.com: Cleveland, Ohio Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Key Tower in Cleveland, OH The city of Cleveland is the county seat of Cuyahoga County in the U.S state of Ohio.
		Greater Cleveland, however, including the entire metropolitan area and suburbs, has as many as 2,900,000 people - if the Akron and Canton areas are included - by far the largest urban area in the state.
		Cleveland became one of the major manufacturing and population centers of the United States, home of numerous major steel firms.
	www.ipedia.com /cleveland__ohio.html (1323 words)

	rapid transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rapid transit systems are generally considered to be mass transit systems, capable of moving large numbers of passengers in a single train.
		The principal problem to be solved in an urban rapid transit system is that of providing extra capacity to handle the volume of traffic during the morning and evening rush hours without unreasonable delays.
		Basically a rapid transit train consists of a number of electrically powered, self-propelled cars, each of which draws electricity from a “third rail”; that runs near the tracks.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0841157.html (688 words)

	Cleveland Gambles on Bus Rapid Transit - UrbanPlanet.org
		Apparently Cleveland is spending close to $200M to build a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in hopes of reviving the city.
		The Cleveland system will be the first in the nation to incorporate many of the features of so-called bus rapid transit.
		FYI -- Cleveland already has rapid transit from Public Square to University Circle, but this is an additional line that runs along Euclid Avenue, as opposed to the existing rail lines which run a bit south of this.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=3929 (1072 words)

	Cleveland Rapid cars 201/202
		Cleveland was the first post war heavy rail system built in the US.
		In the 1980's Cleveland ordered new cars from Tokyu Car company of Japan to retire all of the older equipment.
		Here is a train of 6 of the original cars that opened the Red Line Rapid in Service.
	www.trainweb.org /norm/roster/ctsrapid_201.htm (314 words)

	Light Rail Terminology
		In an emergency, transit and emergency response personnel can also use the BLS to deactivate traction power at stations, although this is generally done through the control center.
		The average length a transit vehicle in a given fleet of vehicles travels before it must be removed from service for repairs due to failure of a part.
		These drills are used to assist jurisdictions and transit properties to evaluate their readiness and training certification to safely respond to light rail incidents.
	www.lightrail.com /terminology.htm (8927 words)

	Rapid-transit busing touted as the trendy way to travel
		CLEVELAND - Cleveland is experimenting with a transportation strategy being adopted in more cities nationwide: removing the wait from bus stops.
		Federal officials are promoting rapid bus transit as a less expensive alternative to light rail that can boost the number of people using public transportation.
		But in Cleveland, where traffic congestion is not so bad as in those cities, commuters may have fewer incentives to choose public transit.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/10/18/loc_loc1transit.html (318 words)

	Cleveland Rapid Transit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cleveland Rapid Transit (generally known as The Rapid) is the name of the rail rapid-transit system in (Click link for more info and facts about Cleveland, Ohio) Cleveland, Ohio, owned by the (Click link for more info and facts about Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority) Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
		They are all that remains of Cleveland's once-extensive (A wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity) streetcar system, though the lines currently run modern light rail equipment rather than (Click link for more info and facts about PCC) PCC cars.
		For years, the system was supposedly the only major rail transit system in the world with only a single downtown stop - (Click link for more info and facts about Terminal Tower) Terminal Tower - shared by all three lines.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/cleveland_rapid_transit.htm (492 words)

	Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was on this inflated public transit demand during WWII that the 1942 to 1950 plans for Line 1, now called the Downtown Rapid Transit, were based.
		Potential Rapid Transit riders would need to be coerced into stepping off their streetcars and buses to board the Rapid Transit.
		Rapid trains would be rerouted out of CUT on the lower level of the Detroit-Superior Bridge, used as a streetcar subway until 1954.
	www.en.com /users/johnb/redline.shtml (3493 words)

	Cleveland, Ohio
		As their residents were likely to work in the central area of Cleveland, they sought to construct a rapid transit line, which have become the Blue and Green lines of the Greater Cleveland Rapid Transit Authority.
		In the grand design provision was made for several rapid transit lines to enter the terminal area, but due to disputes with city politicians and the depression, only the Shaker Heights line existed until the 1950's.
		The route was extended to the West Side of Cleveland in stages; the 5.3 miles to West 117th opened on 15 August 1955, with 1.8 further miles to West Park on 15 November 1958.
	world.nycsubway.org /us/cleveland (1703 words)

	Cleveland Rapid Transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cleveland Rapid Transit (generally known as The Rapid) is the name of the rail rapid-transit system in Cleveland, Ohio, owned by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority.
		The Red Line is a heavy rail metro that runs from Hopkins International Airport to the southwest of downtown to Windmere to the northeast.
		The sharing of one route between light and heavy rail is quite unusual, and the shared stations have platforms of varying heights to accomodate the two kinds of trains.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/cleveland_rapid_transit (448 words)

	Cole (OK04) - Grant Announcement: Congressman Cole Announces Grant for Cleveland Area Transit
		Washington DC- Congressman Tom Cole announced the award of a $1,100,000 grant for Cleveland Area Rapid Transit/University of Oklahoma.
		The funds will be used for the design and construction of improvements to a park-and-ride lot and design for a new bus operating/maintenance facility on the University of Oklahoma's campus.
		The area transit system is vital to a growing community, and will help make public transportation in Cleveland County a more viable option," Congressman Tom Cole said.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/ok04_cole/morenews/pr_030916.html (125 words)

	Bus Rapid Transit Central
		From Cleveland to Miami, and Charlotte to Los Angeles, system planners are listening very carefully to the FTA’s suggestion about Bus Rapid Transit.
		The gentrification of bus service, an idea which has led a number of communities to take a fresh look at their own bus potential during the past few years, is reminiscent of the evolution from streetcars to light rail which began a generation earlier.
		Likewise, in Cleveland, an electrified busway being developed along downtown Euclid Avenue, is attempting to use better transit service as well as streetscape improvements as catalysts for redevelopment.
	www.homestead.com /brtc/files (3290 words)

	clevescene.com \| \| News \| Derailed \| 2000-12-21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Unlike in other towns, Cleveland's rapid lines are so old that there's little evidence here of how a new station can spark development.
		So our rapid lines only serve two suburbs, stopping in many sparsely populated neighborhoods, but not reaching some of the most dense ones.
		RTA is also hoping to make the Waterfront Line -- the only new rapid line it's built in the last 30 years -- a complete loop, extending it from the Flats and the lakefront south past Playhouse Square, Cleveland State University, and Cuyahoga Community College.
	www.clevescene.com /issues/2000-12-21/news.html (1236 words)

	CFTE - Center for Transportation Excellence
		The Federal Transit Administration broadly defines BRT as “combining the quality of rail transit and the flexibility of buses.
		Professor Vukan Vuchic at the University of Pennsylvania challenges the word “Rapid” in the name Bus Rapid Transit, instead offering the term “Bus Semi-Rapid Transit” and arguing that “Rapid” should only be used when referring to exclusive-right-of-way rail transit.
		Transit systems see exponential increases in ridership and fare-box revenues when land uses become coordinated with routes and frequencies.
	www.cfte.org /trends/brt.asp (1522 words)

	Cleveland Arcade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		in downtown Cleveland (late 1960s) The Arcade in Cleveland, Ohio was built in 1890 and is a unique architectural treasure of 19th century urban America.
		Modeled after the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II located in Milan, this magnificent Arcade is comprised of two nine-story towers with a 100-foot-high skylight made of 1,800 panes of glass spanning over 300 feet.
		The construction was financed by John D. Rockefeller, Marcus Hanna and several other wealthy Clevelanders of the day.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Cleveland-Ohio/Cleveland-Arcade.html (169 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of light-rail transit systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sengkang Light Rapid Transit The Sengkang Light Rapid Transit is a 10.
		View of Grenoble, 2002, with the snowy peaks of the DauphinÃ© Alps Location within France Grenoble (Occitan: GrasanÃ²bol) is a city and commune in south-east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac into the IsÃ¨re River.
		U-Bahn is a common German abbreviation, referring to a means of urban rapid transit, internationally known as subway, underground or metro.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-light_rail-transit-systems (7431 words)

	Travel
		Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is served by at least eleven commercial airlines and is a major hub for Continental Airlines.
		Cleveland’s Amtrak station is located at 200 Cleveland Memorial Shoreway, about one mile from the conference hotel.
		The Rapid platform is on the basement level of Tower City Center.
	www.arsc-audio.org /travel.html (1396 words)

	Cleveland Transit
		This was to herald a decade of intense competition with Transit launching a short lived intensive network of services in East Cleveland, particularly in the Redcar area which had long been a United stronghold.
		The Cleveland Coaches arm of Transit was expanded as a low cost operator spawning a Tees Valley operation in competition with independent operator, Leven Valley.
		The logo was an off white horizontal bar, with an arrowhead of two curved bars in orange with 'Cleveland Transit' on the bar in green.
	www.durhamweb.org.uk /the500group/CTR.htm (860 words)

	Rapid Transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A second system was planned into East Cleveland but was never completed until the 1950's as the Cleveland Transit System's heavy rail line..
		It was extended to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in 1968, the first North American rapid transit system to serve a major airport.
		The Returning City: Historic Preservation and Transit in the Age of Civic Revival.
	www.clevelandunionterminal.org /transit.html (168 words)

	Cleveland Rapid Transit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cleveland Rapid Transit (generally known as The Rapid) is the name of the rail rapid-transitsystem in Cleveland, Ohio, owned by the GreaterCleveland Regional Transportation Authority.
		The Blue and Green Lines were recently extended along Cleveland's burgeoning downtown lakeside district; the extension isgenerally referred to as the Waterfront Line, though it is not run as a separate line in the system.
		The sharing of oneroute between light and heavy rail is quite unusual, and the shared stations have platforms of varying heights to accomodate thetwo kinds of trains.
	www.therfcc.org /cleveland-rapid-transit-219752.html (374 words)

	The Hotel
		The hotel is perfectly located in the heart of downtown Cleveland, just minutes away from major attractions including The Avenue, Jacobs Field, Gund Arena, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Playhouse Square.
		The Arcade in Cleveland, Ohio was built in 1890 and designed by John Eisenmann.
		Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is just 20 minutes from the hotel and there is a Rapid Transit train from the Airport directly to Tower City Center, which is a block from the Arcade
	www.henwoodie.com /hotel.htm (340 words)

	CLEVELAND RAILFEST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cleveland RailFest 2001 was a gathering of rail fans who rode various trains in and around the city of Cleveland.
		From the airport through Downtown Cleveland to ride the entire length of the line to the Windermere Rapid Station.
		We then traversed back to Tower city and continued on the new Waterfront Line which passed through the Flats, Cleveland's nightlife and Entertainment district, on to Cleveland Stadium, the Amtrak Station and to the South Harbor, which is the terminus of this line.
	pages.prodigy.net /michaelhammond/clevfest.htm (1494 words)

	Untitled Document
		Cleveland has it all, and August is the perfect time of year to visit!
		Cleveland also features Jacobs Field, home to the Indians, and just north of downtown is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The House That Rock Built®.
		The Greater Cleveland Rapid Transit Authority (RTA) has a rapid transit line (the Red Line) that runs from Hopkins Airport to downtown Cleveland.
	www.asce.org /conferences/pipelines2002/location.html (473 words)

	UrbanRail.Net > America > USA > CLEVELAND, Ohio - Rapid Transit (Metro)
		Cleveland, is the centre of a metropolitan area with some 2 million inhabitants.
		The Waterfront Line is actually an extension of these rapid tram lines from Tower City towards the harbour area and the American football stadium.
		In November 1999 an extension from Cleveland Hopkins Airport to Berea was approved by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
	www.urbanrail.net /am/clev/cleveland.htm (422 words)

	Cleveland Hopkins Airport (CLE)
		Taxis to downtown Cleveland will cost approximately $16-$20 and take 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the traffic.
		The Cleveland Rapid Transit Authority has a rapid transit train from the airport station to Public Square (Terminal Tower).
		They have buses to the Akron/Canton area, for example, for $12.75, or to downtown Cleveland for $9 one-way, with frequent departures.
	www.sky-guides.com /cleveland_hopkins_airport.html (253 words)

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