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Metra
Metra is Chicagoland's commuter rail system, serving over 200 stations on eleven lines across the Regional Transportation Authority's ("RTA's") six-county service area.
Metra receives an approximately 50% operating subsidy from the RTA; all but one of its lines are the descendants of rail services provided by private railroads up until those railroads' failures in the 1970s. The RTA directly operated its commuter rail services as it acquired them up until 1984, which point it delegated that duty to its subsidiary, the Northeastern Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation, which in turn instituted the Metra trademark.
Lines
- Union Pacific/North to Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Milwaukee District/North to Fox Lake, Illinois
- North Central Service to Antioch, Illinois
- Union Pacfic/Northwest to Harvard, Illinois (and branch to McHenry, Illinois)
- Milwaukeee District/West to Elgin, Illinois
- Union Pacific/West to Geneva, Illinois (likely future extension to Elburn, Illinois)
- Burlington Northern Santa Fe to Aurora, Illinois
- Heritage Cooridor to Joliet, Illinois
- Southwest Service to Orland Park, Illinois (likely future extension to Manhattan, Illinois)
- Rock Island Line to Joliet, Illinois
- Metra Electric to University Park, Illinois
Referenced By
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