Arlington Park station

Arlington Park
The station platforms at Arlington Park
Location	2121 West Northwest Highway Arlington Heights, Illinois
Coordinates	42°05′43″N 88°00′33″W / 42.0953°N 88.0092°WCoordinates: 42°05′43″N 88°00′33″W / 42.0953°N 88.0092°W
Owned by	Union Pacific
Line(s)	Union Pacific Northwest
Platforms	1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Construction
Parking	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	E
History
Opened	1975
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	1,672 (avg. weekday) [1]
Rank	18 out of 236[2]
Services
Preceding station   Metra   Following station Palatine toward Harvard or McHenry Union Pacific Northwest Arlington Heights toward Ogilvie

Arlington Park is one of two Metra commuter railroad stations along Metra's Union Pacific/Northwest line in the Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois. The station is located at 2121 West Northwest Highway (US 14) and Wilke Road, within Arlington Park Race Course, and lies 24.2 miles (38.9 km) from the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago.^[3] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Arlington Park is in zone E.

The Arlington Park station was designed originally to serve just the Arlington Park Race Track, but now serves postal employees at the Processing and Distribution Center in Palatine as well as residents of southeast Palatine and west Arlington Heights, although a fence blocks most of the access to the station from the Palatine side. Despite its original purpose as a racetrack station, Arlington Park is located along the Union Pacific / Northwest Line's main line, rather than a spur or a sidetrack. No bus connections are available, although a Pace route, 723 previously served rush hour commuters to and from the east side of Palatine and the Rolling Meadows courthouse.

Parking is available within a section of the track complex's property dedicated for Metra commuter parking. As of June 2010, the price was $1.50 per day. The commuter parking lot is operated by Imperial Parking Corporation,^[4] operating as Impark. Impark has sometimes drawn criticism over business practices related to parking payment; at this lot in particular, commuters are required to pay a surcharge to use pay-by-phone when the lot's payment machines are out of order.^[5] In October and November 2008, there were a rash of car break-ins at the lot during daylight hours while commuters were parked.^[6]

References

1. http://metrarail.com/content/dam/metra/documents/Planning/2014Count_Summary10.pdf
2. http://metrarail.com/content/dam/metra/documents/Planning/2014Count_Summary10.pdf
3. Metra Railfan Tips - Union Pacific Northwest Line
4. Imperial Parking Corporation
5. https://post.complaints.com/post.php?followup=2&original_id=127908[]
6. http://www.pioneerlocal.com/arlingtonheights/news/1263296,AH-blotter-110608-s1.article

External links

• Media related to Arlington Park (Metra) at Wikimedia Commons
• Metra - Arlington Park Station
• Station from Google Maps Street View