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RTA Rapid Transit (generally known as '''The Rapid''') is a Rapid Transit and Light Rail system in Cleveland, Ohio , owned by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA). The system is made of three lines - the Red Line (rapid transit) and Blue and Green Line s (light rail). All three lines join at Tower City Center in Downtown Cleveland , the former Cleveland Union Terminal . The Red Line runs in both directions on fully grade-separated Rights-of-way , built from 1955 to 1968. The Blue and Green Lines were built from 1913 to 1936 as grade separated lines closer to downtown and surface lines along street Median s in the Streetcar Suburb of Shaker Heights . The Waterfront Line , opened in 1996, extends the Blue and Green Lines from Tower City north to Lake Erie and east along the lakeshore. From Tower City to East 55th the three lines share track and stations. This sharing of one route between light and heavy rail is quite unusual, and the shared stations have platforms of varying heights to accommodate the two kinds of trains. east to roughly 68th Street.]] SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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