Morse station

Morse
Location 1358 West Morse Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60626
Coordinates 42°00′29″N 87°39′57″W / 42.00819°N 87.66595°W / 42.00819; -87.66595
Owned by Chicago Transit Authority
Line(s)
  Red Line
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 4
Construction
Structure type Embankment
Bicycle facilities Yes
History
Opened May 16, 1908
Rebuilt 1921, 2012
Previous names Rogers Park, Morse-Rogers Park
Traffic
Passengers (2014) 1,655,567[1] Increase 8.7%
Rank 42 out of 143[lower-alpha 1]
Services
Preceding station   Chicago "L"   Following station
toward Howard
Red Line
Route map
Legend

Purple Line Express
north to Linden

Red Line
north to Howard

Lunt Ave.

Morse Ave.

Purple Line Express
south to Loop

Red Line
south to 95th/Dan Ryan

Morse is an 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line. It is located at 1358 West Morse Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station was formerly known as Rogers Park or Morse-Rogers Park. There is an entry/exit from the north end of the platform to Lunt Avenue.

History

The station was first constructed in 1908, and rebuilt in 1921 as the line was elevated. This mostly brick and concrete station remains today, although the station was extensively renovated in 2012. The wooden platform was replaced with a new concrete platform, and the interior of the Morse Ave. station house was completely gutted and rebuilt. During this time, the station house was also expanded into an unused adjacent retail space. Shortly after this renovation, an empty storefront adjacent to the Lunt Ave. exit was demolished, and a bicycle parking lot was constructed in its place.

The Rogers Park Metra commuter railroad station is five blocks to the west of Morse station on Lunt Avenue.

There are several businesses that are also housed in the building containing the station. Under the Morse Avenue viaduct are Morse El Liquors and Leni Blumyin, DPM. The remaining storefront under the Lunt Ave. exit at the north end of the station is currently empty. The Heartland Cafe is across the street from the Lunt Ave. exit.

Stroller controversy

A northbound train enters the station, passing close to the metal guardrail. The stroller is alleged to have struck a similar railing as the train left the station.
The southbound railing has been replaced during the investigation.

On November 2, 2009, an incident occurred at the Morse station involving a child in a stroller that is under some dispute. Ebere Ozonwu claims that as she was rushing to catch a southbound train, pushing her daughter ahead of her in a stroller, the train's doors closed on the stroller and dragged it, eventually flinging her daughter onto the gravel at the end of the platform and carrying the stroller away.[2] Traces of paint found on the stroller, possibly from the guardrail at the end of the platform, seem to confirm this story, but the operator claims that the doors were carefully checked and the train could not have moved if the doors were not closed.[3]

Bus connections

CTA

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ Due to possible double-counting of physically-connected stations, the CTA's official 2014 tally of stations was 145, but for ridership purposes reported having only 143 stations.

References

  1. ↑ "Monthly Ridership Report – December 2014" (PDF). Chicago Transit Authority Ridership Analysis and Reporting. March 5, 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  2. ↑ St Clair, Stacy (November 5, 2009). "Stroller allegedly caught in CTA train doors appears to be unscathed". Chicago Tribune.
  3. ↑ "Topic Galleries". Chicago Tribune.

External links

Media related to Morse (CTA) at Wikimedia Commons

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