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- Cleveland's public transportation system began in the late 19th century with the electric railways that connected downtown to East 55th Street and later University Circle. The light rail (rapid) trains were added between 1913 and 1920 when the Van Sweringen brothers added the service to connect downtown with their new suburb of Shaker Heights.
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With the establishment of the CLEVELAND RAILWAY CO. in 1910, a prolonged period of reasonable rates ensued, but true public control did not occur until 1942, when the CRC was purchased by the City of Cleveland and became the Cleveland Transit System.
In 1968, Cleveland became the first city in the nation to have a direct rail transit connection linking the city's downtown to its major airport. [3] In 2007, the American Public Transportation Association named Cleveland's mass transit system the best in North America. [4]
The first urban transportation system established in the Cleveland area was the CLEVELAND & NEWBURGH RAILROAD, incorporated in 1834 by prominent Clevelanders. Operated by Silas Merchant, this line ran from a quarry atop Cedar Glen via Euclid to PUBLIC SQUARE , with passenger service commencing at the Railway Hotel at what is now E. 101st St ...
Apr 16, 2010 · With the establishment of the CLEVELAND RAILWAY CO. in 1910, a prolonged period of reasonable rates ensued, but true public control did not occur until 1942, when the CRC was purchased by the City of Cleveland and became the Cleveland Transit System.
1913-20, Cleveland’s rapid transit system started when brothers O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen developed the City of Shaker Heights. They connected the suburb and their Terminal Tower project with a private right-of-way light-rail, now called the Green Line and the Blue Line.
During the last 150 years, transit in Greater Cleveland has gone from the horse and buggy to modern, diesel-powered buses and electric-rail coaches. Ownership has gone from small, privately owned, and minimally regulated systems (prior to 1910), to private corporations with tight public controls…
By the late 1920s, rubber-tired competition caused the decline of Cleveland-area interurbans, who were dying from lack of ridership. Already the weakest ones had folded, the Cleveland, Youngstown & Eastern abandoned its operations in 1925, and the Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern quit a year later.
